not gasser - need a set of 17.5" twin shocks....

[stainlesscycle]

i need a set of 17.5" twin shocks for my pursang - maybe someone has a vintage set of 17.5" eye to eye twin shocks laying around? remote reservoir/rebuildable preferred - ohlins/works/fox air shocks/fox gas shox/etc...

they don't need to necessarily work, as i can rebuild.....

 

[GMP]

Must be for a '76? I had that same bike! (a 370). Bought new when I was 17 with $$ from part time jobs. OEM were Betors I think. I moved the lower mounts forward on the swingarm and went with a pair of shorter FOX shocks, the blown Betors sat for years before getting tossed. The '77s or maybe '78s came that way, basically the '75 swingarm with the '76 frame (all forward).

 

[webmaster]

I had a 1977 250 pursang - I had to have one after seeing all those pictures of kenny zarht in full lock slides in the magazines about that time. Nice torque in that old motor - at least for the time.

Progressive suspension shocks work fairly well in the application and don't cost an arm and a leg - I have found best prices on e-bay, e.g.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PROG...6995149QQptZMotorcyclesQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

...the picture on the listing above is wrong, they are black with a cam style preload adjuster.

jeff

 

[stainlesscycle]

it's a model 167, that i have put a model 134 motor in so i can race in 200cc and under class - ahrma historic cross country 200cc. i didn't think the 250cc motor would be competitive in the 200cc+ class, so i went with the 200cc motor which is surprisingly strong....but kind of an oddball motor.

great idea gmp - i could put a frontera or other forward mount swingarm on it i think, and run these nice 15.5" ohlins reservoir shocks i just rebuilt - that might be a better solution.... i also have an ossa phantowm swingarm (the aluminum one..) - but i think making that fit would be major work.... if i put on a frontera swingarm i can get rid of the cable rear brake but i would lose the floating brake drum, and have to run a rod to the swingarm.

i have the neato betor reservoir shocks from it, but they are not rebuildable (and i've heard they sucked when new anyways......)

 

[GMP]

They did suck, blew out in first race. My dad was a maintanence director for a private jet company, and had a certified nuke welder from the navy working for him. That swingarm looked better than factory with beautiful welds and gusseting. My buddy had a '75 250 Pursang, if you could get a swingarm from one it would go right on with the shorter shocks.

Before there were a lot of MX tracks in our district, there were a lot of scrambles courses, which were basically smoother MX tracks. The 200cc Buls were dominant in that class in the early '70s. I loved that bike despite it blowing up three times (Buls had a tendency to do that).