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Join Jaymes in the Dime City Garage as he explains proper helmet fitment our new video.
"A few years back when I was about 18, the vintage motorcycle bug, in the form of a 1976 Suzuki GT250 bit me hard. The bike was out for sale a few miles from my house, and man was she sexy. Running and in very nice shape for its age, she was begging to be mine. I spoke with the guy and swapped him a paltry $75 bucks for my soon to be freedom machine. In my then blissful ignorance, before I bought it, he told me 'it doesn't have a title, but you can just go get one.' HA! To this day I wish it were that easy..."
In 1978 while in High School Jim Platek bought a brand new Yamaha XS500, a road bike with an 8-valve double overhead cam 4-stroke twin cylinder. This started a 37 year "bond" with the bike. “It was my commuter, tourer, road racer, and dragracer. I finally decided that it was time to change things up, and I parted out all but the frame, switchgear, gas tank, and mirrors.”
My father purchased the origins of this bike in the early 1980's when I'd be 12 or 13 years old. It was kitted out in touring trim, but the heart of it was a Triumph 6T Thunderbird pre-unit engine in a 1962 slimline featherbed frame. We pulled it apart and re-built it in 1993 / 1994 with the regular Triton racer type look.