I have a 96-97 CR500. The frame and or swing arm was bent on the original 96 so I found a mint 97 frame and a 2001 swing arm for her. Extremely rare Noleen pipe, shortened FMF silencer- barely pokes out past the number plate, ported, head shaved. Shes a beast and I love her! Long live the CR500!
Great video. I never competed in any hillclimbs. I did go to watch a few of them. For anyone who has never been to one and just see video, and think 'aww this is easy', think again. Whether is a TV event or UA-cam video, you don't get a real feel to just how steep these hillclimb hills really are. Way steeper than any MX track hill I raced on in over 1000 moto's all over the US.
The sound and smell of a 2 stroke….. Come on Honda get your head out of the butt and give us a 2023 or 2024 2-smoker!! Love this channel!! Especially the 2 stroke content. Thanks for the great entertainment!!
Thanks for the awesome video, Brother. Laughing at that guy with the pink tutu. I was pulling for Mike Nardone on that beautiful red and white YZ 490. He was so damn close to the top. For his age of 67, he can still definitely more than hold his own! That girl on the KX 85, with the regular swingarm wheelbase did damn good for her age, even though she didn't make it to the top. I would love to try this hill on a 2 stroke dirtbike! Nicole O'Donnell did Awesome. That girl is bad to the bone, and can outride many of the men. I know her Father is Proud! I hope the girl on the KX 450 did well, and made it over the top!
I've been a downhill mountain biker my whole life, until I saw your channel 4 months ago, now I'm hooked on dirtbikes😂 everytime I go out I'm like ehhh I'm not pedaling today and I take the 125 out instead.
26:16 a sure sign of too much horsepower in the powerband. Just too hard to control that.....The one I really liked was the late model 4cyl that just RIPED up the mountain. OMG if you knew how hard that is to control.
Ken, thank you very much for filming & posting this. I wanted to attend, but wasn't feeling well and couldn't ride up to Monson. You always do a great job behind the camera ❤ I felt like I was right there! PS, back in 1968 I tried the Monster on my 350 Ducati Scrambler. Unfortunately, I only made it about halfway up.
@@GatesRapes WOW looked like a CR500 engine to me. first guy. They were fast. Rode lots of bikes in my time. The fastest bike I ever rode was a Suzuki Gs1150. On the street. pulled 1st second 3rd power wheelie sitting over the bars. finally came down in 3rd. IDK how fast I was going must have been over 100. slowed down then turned around. came back to my buddy and said. Well that will be the last time I ride this one. It is just too fun I will kill myself. He said I didnt think you were going to open it up. I said if I ride it and dont open it up then whats the point.
Man what a fun event to be a part of .. I don’t care how much 4 strokes evolve they will never have the appeal of the 2 stroke .. just can’t beat the sound and rush of riding one ..
i still have my 85' xr80r im never selling that thing. still runs like its brand new too. my favorite bike of this whole video was that air cooled cr500. what an amazing bike.
too bad nobody today knows the first thing about 2 strokes and why it is impossible for a four stroke naturally aspirated of the same displacement to make as much horsepower as a two stroke of the same displacement ..i happen to personally know the inventor of honda's two strokes and was his apprentice for eight years RIP "Pops" Yoshimura known all over the world as the greatest bike tuner of all times and the inventor of honda's Elsinore which i was apart of the development from the beginning up and till 1983 when i was told by a honda rep to keep my month shut about the major defect of every CX500 as none of them are success and will come apart
For anyone who has never had the pleasure of hearing a performance engine without any baffles close up... It is beyond a loud sound. It rattles through your entire body and smashes your eardrums to a flapping mess.
Never saw the stick kickstand through the chain and wheel like that. Gotta remember that. What an amazing collection of bikes and to see them do what there made to. Thanks for bring us along bro. Or should I say wolverine lmao. U da man. Thankyou
👍 Watching your channel 👍 What happened old school 70s just taking your reg CR 250 RM 250 and just rip up the hill . Who needs all the extra swing arm 😜
It’s weird watching videos now. Are used to watch hill climbing a lot and I haven’t seen in a while and watching these guys fly out with drones have around their heads is Trippie tell her it’s like a little UFOs😅 I am a four stroke guy for my riding I love them, but that big bore two-stroke sound and smell is just badass.
You know what would look cool. Old school Daytona 400 two stroke motor in a new bikes frame. They kicked ass back in the day.. you just don't see them anymore
Some sweet bikes for sure!!! I know the camera doesn't do the hill justice, but...... I'd love to see them climb some bigger hills. Utah has some big hill climbs
M 1987 Ported for top end 1987 Honda CR500 (the BEST year, cartridge forks 44 mm Showas) regularly cracks 97-98 MPH with the front fender on, off it goes 105 all tucked in, flat track style. Fuck yeah the Honda CR 480/500's were some of the biggest horsepower years, along with some losers, like the 4 speed 450, the four speed 480, the ping king, etc. But by '87 they had it all together, "88 with the USD forks, is was back to the drawing board. Never beaks, change pistons and rigs out of guilt. 32.1 Yamahalube R. It will never wear out.
The gnarliest hillclimb I ever went up was near Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Way steeper than this hill for sure 🤟 That Kawasaki was obnoxious man 🤣 One of the craziest engines I saw was an upside-down snowmobile engine stuffed in a dirt bike frame
I think part of the Harleys issue not making it was the choice of front tire watch how he crest the first hill and it just washes out needs an M5B front
Love the old bikes. We had a alcohol fed yz465 in a micro-midget. Dad sold the car i put it back on the bike,still on alcohol. Whaaaaat a rrrruuush!! Mom cought us jumping the creek into the cornfield,made trade it for half a beef.😭 None the riders around would ride it....not enough sack.
Wow that place looks so clean now my friend lived at the house at the bottom of the street and we used to go and sled on the hill in the winters it's an insane hill to ride a sled down
Those were some great bikes. That hill looked tame compared to those European hill climbs. Those guys across the pond are insane. Most never make it to the top.
@@xaydee3631 that is a TT Harley motor,,xr750( could be bigger) notice exhaust is in front on both cyl. Many years racing has proven,it is bullet proof!!!(does not break) I can't really tell on this particular one, but... I have seen these with one downdraft carb., and one side draft carb.130 h.p up to 150h.p. over 100 year old engine design,has only had competition recently....on a 1 mi.dirt track
I mean I live in an area where there is the countries oldest hillclimb so maybe I’m used to more extreme hills or maybe it’s the camera angle from the bottom only but that hill looks fairly easy to summit on a bike
So all stretch frames are in the same class single cylinder or 4 cylinder! I know my 500 is bad but i still dont think it should be in the same class as a multy cylinder nitro bike! Even if its not on nitro! I stumbled up on this busy & couldnt lay it dwn! Where is this?
My mother took me to a race just me & her. I won my first mini overall that day. My step couldn’t take us, so my mom drove the trailer & took me alone to keep me in the series points lead. ❤
I have a 96-97 CR500. The frame and or swing arm was bent on the original 96 so I found a mint 97 frame and a 2001 swing arm for her. Extremely rare Noleen pipe, shortened FMF silencer- barely pokes out past the number plate, ported, head shaved. Shes a beast and I love her!
Long live the CR500!
The KX made more power!
Sorry m8 the CR had the better chassis but the KX500 had the better engine.
Great video. I never competed in any hillclimbs. I did go to watch a few of them. For anyone who has never been to one and just see video, and think 'aww this is easy', think again. Whether is a TV event or UA-cam video, you don't get a real feel to just how steep these hillclimb hills really are. Way steeper than any MX track hill I raced on in over 1000 moto's all over the US.
The sound and smell of a 2 stroke….. Come on Honda get your head out of the butt and give us a 2023 or 2024 2-smoker!! Love this channel!! Especially the 2 stroke content. Thanks for the great entertainment!!
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Thanks for the awesome video, Brother. Laughing at that guy with the pink tutu. I was pulling for Mike Nardone on that beautiful red and white YZ 490. He was so damn close to the top. For his age of 67, he can still definitely more than hold his own! That girl on the KX 85, with the regular swingarm wheelbase did damn good for her age, even though she didn't make it to the top. I would love to try this hill on a 2 stroke dirtbike! Nicole O'Donnell did Awesome. That girl is bad to the bone, and can outride many of the men. I know her Father is Proud! I hope the girl on the KX 450 did well, and made it over the top!
Pulling?
I've been a downhill mountain biker my whole life, until I saw your channel 4 months ago, now I'm hooked on dirtbikes😂 everytime I go out I'm like ehhh I'm not pedaling today and I take the 125 out instead.
Those 4 strokes absolutely SUKK !!
The extent of my racing days were the eartly 2000's at Milan MI and Delta Oh. Wish I had someone like Ken cheering me on back then!
im right outside of milan in dundee! small world
@@mobilizedorb438 Oh cool! Im from romulus right by the airport.
And I’m in Toledo
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Nice I raced Milan and delta on the weekends for years
26:16 a sure sign of too much horsepower in the powerband. Just too hard to control that.....The one I really liked was the late model 4cyl that just RIPED up the mountain. OMG if you knew how hard that is to control.
Do you know what a powerband is?
Man I appreciate you a lot, you have a big generous young heart, lot of respect for that.
Big salut 🫡 from France,
ViNZ.
Much love for the quaboag riders! Thanks Ken.
What a wonderful day at the hill climb! Thank you Ken,this was a great video! Super bikes and super people.
Not many bikes have the HP and Torque to get up the hill with as bad a start that that CR480 had. What an awesome motor.
Ken, thank you very much for filming & posting this. I wanted to attend, but wasn't feeling well and couldn't ride up to Monson. You always do a great job behind the camera ❤ I felt like I was right there!
PS, back in 1968 I tried the Monster on my 350 Ducati Scrambler. Unfortunately, I only made it about halfway up.
Look at video on you tube from France 🇫🇷 that’s hillclimb You guy’s not hill
excellent video, two-stroke engines are spectacular!
That first guy, on that's mindblowingly gorgeous CR 500, was badass!
Yea and it was super fast. those old honda bikes in that era could not be beat on the drags. And it was all power good bottom end too.
@@Mikefngarage YZ 490
Running a YZ 490 engine
@@GatesRapes WOW looked like a CR500 engine to me. first guy. They were fast. Rode lots of bikes in my time. The fastest bike I ever rode was a Suzuki Gs1150. On the street. pulled 1st second 3rd power wheelie sitting over the bars. finally came down in 3rd. IDK how fast I was going must have been over 100. slowed down then turned around. came back to my buddy and said. Well that will be the last time I ride this one. It is just too fun I will kill myself. He said I didnt think you were going to open it up. I said if I ride it and dont open it up then whats the point.
@@GatesRapes I think you are referring to the one at about 6 minute mark. sounded like a YZ.
Man what a fun event to be a part of .. I don’t care how much 4 strokes evolve they will never have the appeal of the 2 stroke .. just can’t beat the sound and rush of riding one ..
Especially when 4 strokes run methanol.
i mean the street bike engine sounding so good and it ripped
Great people enjoying a great sport! Just doesnt get better or more American than that! Wish I were there
The stock wheel base really put the hill in perspective. Cameras don't do the terrain any justice. That CR480 was mint.
Thanks bro for making these videos!! You ROCK!!
Awesome video Sr. Love the hillclimb!
That bike with the 4 cylinder street bike motor in it was narly!!!🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
i still have my 85' xr80r im never selling that thing. still runs like its brand new too. my favorite bike of this whole video was that air cooled cr500. what an amazing bike.
Just attended the American Hillclimb today in Oregonia Ohio at the devil's staircase. Seen some Cr500s. I was cheering them on all the way up👍🏁😎
Those Honda 2 strokes were on another level as usual 🤘
too bad nobody today knows the first thing about 2 strokes and why it is impossible for a four stroke naturally aspirated of the same displacement to make as much horsepower as a two stroke of the same displacement ..i happen to personally know the inventor of honda's two strokes and was his apprentice for eight years RIP "Pops" Yoshimura known all over the world as the greatest bike tuner of all times and the inventor of honda's Elsinore which i was apart of the development from the beginning up and till 1983 when i was told by a honda rep to keep my month shut about the major defect of every CX500 as none of them are success and will come apart
Love to watch these guys send it!
@ The 5:07 mark that KX rear tire is outside of the bead partially!!
Man Ken has just an awesome life!
For anyone who has never had the pleasure of hearing a performance engine without any baffles close up... It is beyond a loud sound. It rattles through your entire body and smashes your eardrums to a flapping mess.
Stand next to a top fuel, funny car on a test fire, 3 feet away, It almost robs your soul
Try standing on the mounting platform of 4 155mm cannons going off simultaneously on a battle ship.
Great video. Love your commentary
Nice to see this venue still in operation. I attended events here in the 1960's.
Never saw the stick kickstand through the chain and wheel like that. Gotta remember that. What an amazing collection of bikes and to see them do what there made to. Thanks for bring us along bro. Or should I say wolverine lmao. U da man. Thankyou
👍 Watching your channel 👍
What happened old school 70s just taking your reg CR 250 RM 250 and just rip up the hill .
Who needs all the extra swing arm 😜
Love absolutely love your passion brother thank you for keeping it alive
Would love to see how the Maico 700 would have done lol
Awesome mate I loved the Harleys too but all were great
Thanks man. Your videos are awesome.
We love mike what a guy so bad ass. I want to be like him when I’m older.
Good lord! I don’t know why I found your channel a few days ago? I been thinking about getting a bike ? But that 4cyl bike was insane
Dad: what length do u want your swing arm to be?
Me:YES
It’s weird watching videos now. Are used to watch hill climbing a lot and I haven’t seen in a while and watching these guys fly out with drones have around their heads is Trippie tell her it’s like a little UFOs😅
I am a four stroke guy for my riding I love them, but that big bore two-stroke sound and smell is just badass.
You know what would look cool. Old school Daytona 400 two stroke motor in a new bikes frame. They kicked ass back in the day.. you just don't see them anymore
Some sweet bikes for sure!!! I know the camera doesn't do the hill justice, but...... I'd love to see them climb some bigger hills. Utah has some big hill climbs
M 1987 Ported for top end 1987 Honda CR500 (the BEST year, cartridge forks 44 mm Showas) regularly cracks 97-98 MPH with the front fender on, off it goes 105 all tucked in, flat track style. Fuck yeah the Honda CR 480/500's were some of the biggest horsepower years, along with some losers, like the 4 speed 450, the four speed 480, the ping king, etc. But by '87 they had it all together, "88 with the USD forks, is was back to the drawing board. Never beaks, change pistons and rigs out of guilt. 32.1 Yamahalube R. It will never wear out.
That guy on the Yamaha flew... 💪🇺🇲👍
awesome video nice commenting always keep it up
Bro, you very closely resemble one of the characters on airplane repo. Great coverage of the event.
The gnarliest hillclimb I ever went up was near Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Way steeper than this hill for sure 🤟
That Kawasaki was obnoxious man 🤣
One of the craziest engines I saw was an upside-down snowmobile engine stuffed in a dirt bike frame
Great video!!
Great widow maker bikes!!
Bad ass!!!
Some good clean fun right there!!! Thanks for posting.
Clean?
@@stupidhead9117 Cleaner than drugs, crime or some other obnoxious behavior!!
I think part of the Harleys issue not making it was the choice of front tire watch how he crest the first hill and it just washes out needs an M5B front
Love the old bikes. We had a alcohol fed yz465 in a micro-midget. Dad sold the car i put it back on the bike,still on alcohol. Whaaaaat a rrrruuush!!
Mom cought us jumping the creek into the cornfield,made trade it for half a beef.😭 None the riders around would ride it....not enough sack.
The 170% Honda her sound and her back Tire😍
Great video made me wish I would have done mountain climbing.
Wow... The Cr-500's pull u up the hill..lol.lol..Did u hear that Cr-480 pulling, even though she needed piston+rings?? Love the footage!👍🇺🇸
Wow that place looks so clean now my friend lived at the house at the bottom of the street and we used to go and sled on the hill in the winters it's an insane hill to ride a sled down
Those were some great bikes. That hill looked tame compared to those European hill climbs. Those guys across the pond are insane. Most never make it to the top.
Looks like an absolute blast of a time.
Far out ,down tools, chewing gum in ,this is the absolute juju, check out them 6+over pro_links,the H2"0",the xrs ,right on mr Kaplan 🔥☘
I can smell the mix now!
I was climbing hills like this in my 5 horsepower mini bike when I was 5 years
Didn't tought people from USA would buy Scalvini pipes ,probably cost hefty to import
*thought😅
@@bigdude3603 I'm Not native english
Sep 30 DAILYGRIND 😁👍♥️♥️
It's not "thought" anyways. It's "think" in your case.
Rock on Andrea. Your English is great.
@@electrolytics I said what I said 🤣
At 9:10 I hope people realize what they are looking at.
What is it? Sorry i dont know much
@@xaydee3631 that is a TT Harley motor,,xr750( could be bigger) notice exhaust is in front on both cyl.
Many years racing has proven,it is bullet proof!!!(does not break)
I can't really tell on this particular one, but... I have seen these with one downdraft carb., and one side draft carb.130 h.p up to 150h.p. over 100 year old engine design,has only had competition recently....on a 1 mi.dirt track
I HAWE SUZUKI TSX 125cc enduro and IT IS Good on My MIND and MIKKO SOININEN😊
That IS Good on My MIND 😊
Where’s all the banshee powered dirt bikes at?
That was where the sport was headed when I last was around it
Oh yeah!!! So cool thanks for sharing
Jim Hunter keeps walking in front of the camera, is that why they call him
Hollywood?
4:50 why on earth would anyone do that to their exhaust.....
Sounds like someone shitting into a coffee can
I love your Videos
CHECK OUT 902'S REAR TIRE FROM 12 TO 1:00 O'CLOCK, PINK TUTU GUY.
BENT RIM ABOUT 3:30 TO 4 O'CLOCK ALSO.
Hill climbs are no joke. Just goes to show you how difficult they are on a bike with a stock chassis
10:46 love to see my designs out there 😍😍😍😍
170% 🙏greetings from Portugal
verry nice greetings from Berlin Germany
I mean I live in an area where there is the countries oldest hillclimb so maybe I’m used to more extreme hills or maybe it’s the camera angle from the bottom only but that hill looks fairly easy to summit on a bike
So all stretch frames are in the same class single cylinder or 4 cylinder! I know my 500 is bad but i still dont think it should be in the same class as a multy cylinder nitro bike! Even if its not on nitro! I stumbled up on this busy & couldnt lay it dwn! Where is this?
SERIOUSLY SICK BIKES & RIDERS🤘🏻😜🤘🏻
1990 cr 250 and 500 my favourite bikes evor.
😈😈😈 man , get these things doing flat mud or sand drags .... wicked 😈😈😈
I find it so charming the "aww yeah, motorcycles!" guy from _I think you should leave_ got a job amount motocross hillclimbs 😅
Hey Senior is this the hill that you guys fought to keep open? Awesome video brother!!
Yes!
😱👍🥒🥒🥒🥒
Is it common to run a water cooled bike with out water cooling it, for hill climbing??
So that af500 for that class they're not allowed to use a teraflex tire?
So if its custom frame its not no more honda ? Parts
Saw you walk past a yz250s 86 , do you have footage of it?
ken you need to send it on your cr 500 that would be awesome
the harley davidson one, would have sounded better with a coffee moka mounted in the frame and sure made more power
2:50 SEND IT!!
That sound boy..
The old man wrecking made me laugh so hard🤣
Mikey get some grippers on that seat brother you'll stay on easier👍
Those cr500s😍says bye bye to any450.throw josh hill on one of those 500s that guy can ride any bike.seen a vid with him riding one and he is bad ass🤘
anyone remember the cr 500 paul pensinault had ?
It always looks easier on camera than in real life. So I'll just ask: could I make this with my stock XR600R? (1994)
The bike is capable yes
Good job. 👍👍👍
Check out the CR 1000R hill clime bike
My mother took me to a race just me & her. I won my first mini overall that day. My step couldn’t take us, so my mom drove the trailer & took me alone to keep me in the series points lead. ❤
Hey Ken, what was your favorite bike that was there??? Personal opinion???
Yes CR500R
29:39 -I’m sorry but wth? 😂😂. Nice try bro
Great to see girls rippin up the dirt
Not much of a hill but thats ok it keeps the bikes nice. And they sure were!
2 stroke it sound like racing ♥️