Your Collection: 1973 Elsinore
Monday, January 3, 2011 | 9:45 AM
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"I restored this 1973 Elsinore myself with parts I had gathered over the years and some help from eBay. I built one to look at and another that I race. The front fender on the looker is from my actual race bike from 1974. It had been stored in my dad's barn loft. It's funny that after all these years I can still remember every piece of these bikes right down to how the thrust washers go in the transmission. Here is some pics of both Elsinores, my new 2011 KX450F, and my AHRMA Mid-Ohio holeshot."
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The Elsie is awesome! On the other hand, your new format sucks.
Where's the rest of the pictures? Budget cuts?
Maybe it's time to go back to the previous site format until somebody fixes all the bugs in this deal. You can't view the pics full size. All these problems and seriously jerkey slow! It could be a rift in the force because California just swore in Jerry Brown as Governer again! Unbelieveable!!! How you think that's gonna work you absolute complete morons! Good luck with that!
Mike,nice work. The first "big bike" I ever rode was a '73 Elsinore, brings back the good ole daze. I have your next project bike, my '77 XR75 in the garage. I wonder if T.H. would rebuild the hauler and take us to Mid Ohio this year !!!!
Yeah man, this is a bike I wish I could have had back in the day. Your bike looks perfect! Great job on the restoration. Where can we get a look at the race bike?
I wish the resolution was higher than 12 dpi so we can see the little details. We could use a lot more photos of that bike. Back in those days I rode a Kawasaki F-11M prototype against the new CR250s, and let me tell you, those were revolutionary times in motocross. Both of those bikes made everything before them obsolete overnight. MX jumped forward 7-10 years in one year. Hats off to Honda for raising the bar so far above the status quo back then. Power, handling, brakes, tranny, clutch, ergos, suspension, reliability.
GO back to the old format!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats nice mike ! You got any mudholes around,I will break it in for you.
this new format SUCKS!!! Bring back the old one!!!