Honoring the Orginals

[poli]

I originally bought my Rally with the "free" yellow panels (see avatar). I thought the black with yellow looked good -- still do. But then I read somewhere that the White Heritage panels were in honor of the original Can Am's. I owned one of the originals, a '74 125 TNT, first one sold in Tulsa, OK. That was one of the top 2 or 3 best bikes of the 32 I've owned! Fantastic bike. So I looked at the White Heritage panels a little closer and noticed they ARE the same color scheme as on my '74 just without the lettering. So … I purchased a set and my daughter-in-law made some stencils and now I think it really honors the original.

 

[BajaRon]

I too owned a Can-Am dirt bike. A 1975 MX-2, 250. It was a BEAST!

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

All those colors are "too busy".

 

[SpyderAnn01]

That’s cool! I have a shirt with that color scheme but didn’t know the significance

 

[vstrommer]

Awesome Retro Look. :2thumbs:

 

[CENTAUR]

Very well done. Very cool.
CENTAUR

 

[Micnice10]

Looks great! #TeamRyker

 

[Tslepebull]

Poli, when I first saw the Heritage panels I thought like Aufgeblassen47 that they were too busy. However, now that I am educated to what the "heritage" was, and with the stencils your DIL made, I have changed my mind; that looks pretty cool. I guess I will be baking a crow pie for dinner tonight!

 

[Chupaca]

Well done...looks just like the originals and we had many in south america on the motocross circut. We had a lot of other makes and models you don't see anymore... congrats your daughter did a great job....

 

[safecracker]

Looks great

 

[Arion]

I originally bought my Rally with the "free" yellow panels (see avatar). I thought the black with yellow looked good -- still do. But then I read somewhere that the White Heritage panels were in honor of the original Can Am's. I owned one of the originals, a '74 125 TNT, first one sold in Tulsa, OK. That was one of the top 2 or 3 best bikes of the 32 I've owned! Fantastic bike. So I looked at the White Heritage panels a little closer and noticed they ARE the same color scheme as on my '74 just without the lettering. So … I purchased a set and my daughter-in-law made some stencils and now I think it really honors the original.

I think it looks great! In my humble opinion the Ryker is overly monochromatic and your mod adds an excellent splash of color, not to mention an homage to retro styling. Well done, says he.!