1974 Honda CR125 Elsinore at the 2023 Indiantown FTR event. Fast, rough and dusty.

This is my Honda CR125 Elsinore ride along video for 2023 Indiantown race. We haven't had any rain in the area for three months and I wanted to get a really good start before we got into the tight and dusty singletrack woods. Of course, since I was running the video, I messed up my start and had to kick the bike three times to get the motor running. There must have been an epidemic of bad starts that day because I luckily ended up in third trailing two post-vintage Kawasaki's which gave me fits to pass. The track featured wide open straights that hid deep holes and firebreak ditch crossings. These obstacles really jarred the rider when they were hit at high speed. I ended up bending the pins in my foot pegs and cracking the frame and the pegs were sagging down at the finish. All the racers were definitely riding slower at the end than the beginning. The heat and the dust and the whoops really sapped their energy. It also sapped your brain power. I knew I was close on fuel but figured I had conserved enough gas while riding slower in the dusty areas. On the last lap, I had about a three-minute lead and ran completely out of gas about a mile from the finish. By the time I was able to get someone to give me a few ounces of fuel, my friend Kevin caught and passed me on his Yamaha 360 and got the win again. I'm trying to keep the videos a reasonable length and the video ends where I went back onto the racetrack instead of pulling into the pit lane for a splash of gas. Fortunately, my GoPro camera battery was dead before you got to see me pushing my bike like a mad man up to some of the track crew. I was hoping they could get me going before Kevin sped on by.

[@DH-3on_sAm]

you kickin ass passing new bikes. luv it

[@robertrishel3685]

Just beautiful! That thing sounds like it has a kind of sweet mid-rangeyness to it that looks to work really well in the right stuff, for a piston port 125 anyway. Great to see it ridden so well!

[@EarthSurferUSA]

A good piston port/pipe combo, was no slouch.

[@rosscauffman8135]

Your bikes are awesome great job. You really should try a few restoration videos helping other people to repair and ride these old works of art I too have the old dirt bike sickness my dad set me up with my first honda when I was 5 on my 14th birthday, he surprised me with a 77 Elsinore 125. I'm now 53 and still ride in the dirt watching this makes me wish I still had my Elsinore

[@EarthSurferUSA]

53 now would make you 7 in 1977. Must have gotten a used one in 1984, when you were 14, and you probably had to work on it if you wanted to ride it. :)

[@BNatoAk]

Love the classic 2 strokes!! Man you were getting it!

[@Absolutezerobs]

I love it! I Had a CR125M and 250 many years ago. Your runs super and your riding very well out there. You have to be riding on the fork dust seals. Lol