Tiger Thursday
Yesterday I was humbled and honored to see my 200 Tiger prototype race bike I started working on in around Oct 1985-March of 1986. There were so many little things I seen I did that I had forgot about, but then there were thing that had been changed too that wasn't done by me, such as a longer swing arm and some one had put the different rake plate and the adjustable front end kicking it out too far, but for the most part it was all there. But then as I started looking at all the rest of the collecting I see my first Factory 250 that had the new frame with the rake where it should have been and someone had put my rev. cyl. in it so the pipe came out the rear of the cyl. and the side mout carb, which wasn't done right but those were all my race parts. I had taken both these bikes to San Jose in 1986 for my first National. The sad part was I tried to clear a small set of jump and landed on the second on in practice on the 200 and got knock out when the bike landed on me splitting my sternum and was unable to race. We found out later that the blue prints showed something like 10 inches of travel in the rear and I lowerd the bikes down 4-5 inches, but we really only had about 8 inches, so when I hit the second jump it bottomed out hard.
For more info on the Tigers and more about my time there you can read the history here.https://sites.google.com/site/tigerrotax/home