It has a modified Storm body and looks like a café/bobber thing. I turned the second one into a Cinderella. One I turned into my Storm kit showcase bike. I purchased two 1980s Yamaha 650 Specials about four years ago. Actual 1980 Harley XR 750 tank with sectioned and shortened XR tail. Tall bars won’t trap left knee in corners. Tall handlebars and big wheels raise seat level for comfortable adult use. Extended Azusa frame to curb unexpected front wheel lofting of stock short frame. Two years later I finished it, but turns out the thing is too tall for my short legs and old body so I traded it.īuilt for dirt track racing in pull start class. My intension was to build a Donny Schmit Chesterfield replica from a 1991 Yamaha 250-to ride, not stare at. Maybe because he was a world champion and here I was handing out a lousy plaque.Īt 75 years old I had no business buying a vintage Yamaha 250 MX, but I did in August 2017. I don’t know why we were both smiling but it was awards time. In 2002 Schmit was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.ĭonny is on the left here. His 15 career victories in World Motocross Grand Prix were a record for an American rider. In 1992, Schmit rode for Chesterfield Yamaha, and won his second world title. Then he went on to win the 1990 Grand Prix World 125 MX championship for Team Bieffe Suzuki. He won a pile of American MX championships in 125 and 250.
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He was a pro in all ways and he was a nice guy too. Among them was super star Donny Schmit from Minnesota. We settled on the world’s shortest SuperCross. When I was a flat track promoter in the early 90s, we (Dave Dolejs, the Montgomery Rynda brothers and me) decided to augment flat track races with other venues to bring in additional dollars. Can you say a brand compatible stand!ġ991 YZ250 Chesterfield Replica Donny Schmit They had great travel, great torque, were stone reliable and were just terrific looking motorcycles. This was a 250 MX, which I never should have sold. I was large into Maico Spiders back then. No cake or cupcakes-just icing on the lake! I’ll ride this bike for the first time at my February, 2022 80 th Birthday ride on Lake Minnetonka. Naturally, I used a front ice fender which I make. The only other thing I did was to fatten the rear of the seat purely for aesthetics. That sound will startle the youngsters on the ice.” damn, what’s that behind me?” I’ll use that momentarily coming into corners and as a kill switch. And happily, I was able to use a compression release I had stashed away because the head was tapped for two plugs. There is no sense to try to corner a bike with a 30 o rake, which was common to bikes of that time.
I had the frame cut at the head to move the fork angle rearward.
The first and really the only modification wasn’t to the engine-that stays stock. I think this grunty 400 will be an exception to that rule. Everyone now knows four strokes are best for dirt track cornering and that applies to ice bikes too. Yamaha engines of this era were known for linear torque comparable to Huskys and Maicos. I was lucky to find this basket bike with all parts in the box or on the rolling frame. Click the images for a larger view and more information. Some of Phil's custom bikes over the years.
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