Anybody into vintage can ams???

Oh yeah Dana I remember the days too! Few buddies and me use to buy anything we spied leaning against a barn. Countless bikes given to us just to have them removed from the property! Filed the points on most and we were happy as larks. I had a 350 bighorn at 12 that was expansion chambered and meaner than anything. I had to take it to a hill to run down and bump start in 3rd. I couldn't touch the ground let alone start it. Getting off was tricky and I usually kind of laid it down in the grass unless a buddy was handy. My old kdx 450 is sitting in a barn calling my name. My dad told me under no circumstances did I let anyone else ride it because it would flat hurt them. A buddy bugged and bugged about riding it. Had a trick to start it and so I said if you get it started you can ride it. 45 minutes later he got it. I was shocked but all I could do was yell watch the power band as he rode off. Comes by the house pulls a wheelie in 3rd on just sheer torque and the power band came in and slapped him off the pavement ridiculously quick. Broke his ankle and laid in the road screaming sweet Jesus. Jesus was needed on that thing. Man those were the days! Still trying to relive them.

awesome.. I still have the first bike i ever rode, my grandpas old sl100 sitting in the barn. Also have his old xl175. Some day I will fix them up again to putt around on. I think the sl dropped a valve when i was blasting around in the snow in high school being and idiot. Would like to have that running just to reminisce. A good friend of mine got a yz490 when we were like 15 (dont know who thought that was a good idea). It could not be started with the kickstarter, we thought it was just because the engine was too big. In hindsight im sure something in the kick starter shaft or bushing was buggered and causing it to bind under load. We would push that damn thing all the way up the hill in his road and push it down to get it started. Then take turns ripping down the tractor paths and in the sand pit. You were SOL if you stalled it in the sand. I thought that was just about the most powerful bike ever made. I got to ride one on the ice that was all set up a few year ago, it was easy to start and really fun set up as an ice bike!