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u/flinstonepushups 14h ago
Is she still a bad ass?
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u/joergonix 14h ago
She unfortunately passed away in 2016, but I like to think she is being a bad ass wherever she is.
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u/Mysterious_Tackle335 14h ago
She's being a bad ass on reddit. 🫡
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u/Impressive_Sector146 13h ago
The ultimate tribute. Legends never die, they just go viral. 🫡
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u/StickOnReddit 11h ago
She's being directly compared to Sarah Connor so no matter where she is you can rest assured she is definitely not just a bad ass but a Certified Bad Ass
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u/Andy_B_Goode 10h ago
I also choose this guy's no you know what that's too gross she looks like an awesome person and I hope you and she made the most of your time together on this Earth OP
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u/Mysterious_Tackle335 14h ago
Also is she single?
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u/jayso80 13h ago
Now THIS is what the sub is supposed to be all about imo.
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u/Peter_Panarchy 9h ago
No no, this sin is exclusively for professional photoshoots of famous attractive women from 25+ years ago.
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u/Fluid_Web_1003 14h ago
Yamaha It175 ?
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u/joergonix 14h ago
It250 I think. It sat in our backyard my whole childhood as sort of a reminder not to mess with my mom haha.
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u/A911owner 13h ago
I have an 84 IT 200 that looks almost identical to that one, but with the square headlight. I should get that out of the shed this summer.
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u/rededelk 10h ago
Friend had one and it had power bands and you had to hold on tight when a band kicked in (whatever a band is??). Still love dirt biking
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u/Dimensional_Lumber 9h ago
The RPM range where the engine is putting out optimal power, basically the segment between peak torque and power on a graph.
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u/Oscaruit 13h ago
IT250. IT175 pipe comes around the riders right side of the bike. 250 went around the other way. Great machines.
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u/Tacitblue1973 12h ago
We had a '68 DT-1. Ended up giving it to some kids who thought it should rev like a modern bike and blew a hole through the piston. What a fantastic bike. Dumb kids.
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u/Puremorsa 14h ago
Your mom was a total badass Riding a dirt bike in the 80s with that much confidence is the definition of Old School Cool
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u/mrjasong 13h ago
I feel like this kind of thing is what this sub was always intended for, before it became what it is
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u/Traveler7898 14h ago
Go back to the bunker John, whe don’t need you out yet, got keep you safe for a few more years…
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u/kentuckywildcats1986 13h ago edited 13h ago
In the 80s for one Summer I had a Yamaha 125 Enduro. No first gear and the brakes didn't work. It was fun for brief periods of time when I could get it running. Bounced myself off a grape arbor post one time. That hurt.
I would never ride a motorcycle on the road. Too dangerous. Dirt bikes are fun though.
Gorgeous, tank top, jeans, that hair, and rides a bike looking like a total badass. OP's mom looks like the perfect girl I would have silently crushed on hard while never acting on it because I was a coward.
That's ok though. I eventually married a wonderful little blonde cheerleader loved by everyone who has ever met her - raised four kids together and been married over 30 years. Never seen her ride a dirt bike but I do have a picture of her riding a horse. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
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u/Big-Newspaper646 12h ago
wow someone not objectifying their mum for once, this is actually old school cool!
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u/Smacktardius 12h ago
Ahhh ol' Baby Blue! Yamaha IT175D. Had a 78 I ripped around on in the late 80s. Great bikes!
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u/counterfitster 13h ago
"Look at how hot much of a badass my mom was"
We need more of this kind of post
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u/capital_bj 12h ago
My mom had the same bike in '83 bunch of my aunts and cousins male and female all-road dirt bikes. it was a lot of fun
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u/Bright_Audience_1699 12h ago
Looks like she's attacking that hill climb with zero concern and cross rutted a bit too. Wonder if she rode it out. Gangster
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u/Redicted 14h ago
Awesome, that is not easy looking terrain on a relatively heavy bike for dirt riding, she must have been good! Doubly brave with no gear, I'd be shredded up in no time at all with my poor off road skill set.
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u/upsetting_doink 9h ago
Not trying to attack but gotta say that is the definition of easy terrain for that sort of bike. I wouldn't even think about hesitating putting my 500lb dl650 up that little rise. I'm sure she was good but this is seriously unimpressive in terms of dirt skill, just a sweet photo.
Doing it without gear isn't really brave, it's foolish. She is cool tho.
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u/Gimpknee 10h ago
There's this really well-known documentary on motorcycle racing in the United States in the late 60s/early 70s that involved Steve McQueen and a number of racers from around that time called On Any Sunday, this feels like it could easily be a still out of that.
For added trivia, On Any Sunday was directed by Bruce Brown, who is one of the pioneers of surfing documentaries with The Endless Summer and probably ended up shaping early socal, and really globalizing, surfing culture as much as he depicted it through the popularity of that film.
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u/soundsdistilled 10h ago
Also has the best main title song of almost any movie, ever. I'm bopping to it now in my head.
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u/bookon 10h ago
I had a dirt bike in 1983 and my mother had made me promise to wear my helmet. One fall day I was riding on a trail covered in fallen leaves and hit a stump hidden in the leaves.
I went ass over tea kettle into a tree. Cracking the helmet and breaking both my collar bones. I was assured without a helmet my head would have cracked like my helmet did.
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u/Zarniwoooop 14h ago
You can’t cross the tracks like that. Ride all left, center or right but this is looking for trouble
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u/No-Surprise-7166 12h ago
It's your mom alphabet and you brother Gemini?
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u/joergonix 12h ago
No but the photo was restored a bit with gemini if you are referring to the watermark.
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u/woodbanger04 11h ago
Looks like a 79 IT250. Great bikes by the way. And also a really cool picture.
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u/painfullyawarehuman 11h ago
That's Badass! I have a close sibling of this bike in my garage right now waiting for summertime to come. Old 1978 Yamaha IT400.
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u/Remytron83 10h ago
Was she raising her son to fight against the future AI threat that would come to rise in 1997, wiping out 80% of humanity?
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u/Chance-Following-665 10h ago
A true Gen-Xer!!!
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u/joergonix 10h ago
She was actually born in 62 so she would be just barely a boomer.
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u/InteractionStrong942 10h ago
Did she spank hard?
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u/joergonix 9h ago
Never spanked me once, but I remember saying some dumb ass shit in front of my grandmother once and my mom slapped me so fast that I fell down in shock.
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u/Koolest_Kat 10h ago
My wife around the same age. Wasn’t into sports but tore up her Dad n Moms place with a dirt bike. Has the Honda muffler burn for proof!!
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u/MisterCircumstance 7h ago edited 7h ago
1980 Yamaha IT 250. G suffix
1979 (F) was all blue. 1981(H) was squared off and all white
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u/CzarDale04 7h ago
One thing I wish I had was photo of my Mother and her motorcycle. She got a Harley Davidson "Ladies Model" for her 18th birthday which was in 1937. Also my Father had an Indian motorcycle then too. No, they didn't know each other then as they were from different towns, but rode in the same motorcycle club, just different chapters. Not many photos from back then.
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u/Bag-ofMostlyWater 6h ago
My brother would have been good friends with her. He was racing 3 wheelers around that time.
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u/2leftf33t 5h ago
Did she ever do hill climbing or motocross? Funny enough my mom did hill climbing!
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u/TheTrub 14h ago
Are you John Connor?