http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzaBsGvXcsw&feature=related turn the volume up to meet heaven, at 1 minute 50 onwards.
just To think the youth of today were denied the sights/smells and glorious sounds of a triple cylinder 750cc 2 stroke riding around the streets :grin: favourited :good:
I can remember when these bikes first came out, the press reported people buying them and a few days later putting them up for sale, such was their evil delivery of power. You have to remember that this was an era that had only just made crash helmets compulsory, and four strokes were like diesels. and you could ride a 250 on learner plates, I had a RD250 with a RD350 engine.
yes indeed, im not quite old enough to have ridden a 250 on L plates, but i remember the era well, being a young impressionable school boy at the time, who was mad about anything with an engine.... infact you could ride a kawasaki KH250 triple on L plates in those days, admittadly not as quick as an RD250....but made a nice noise :good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMYnZkWalaI&feature=related
not a lot in it, as the Yams were pre L.C. mine had big alloy tank, clip-ons, rear sets and expansion chambers, next came the Suzuki Hustler, the model before the Ram Air, and after that a disappointing Honda CB175....... with an electric start. hock:
ahh i see i thought you was talking L.C.... on an air cooled theme, I had an RD125DX (which was aircooled) with an RD200DX motor in it :cheers: The year is 1991 (before most were even born on this forum) and i looked fresh faced :lol: some things never change...still burning the 2 stroke oil :grin:
you have been handy for some time then, tidy bike, would still be desirable today. of the A/Cs, the 400 was the one to have, wheelie wise. oh, and you have put some weight on.
ahh, proper thread :good: never had a big KH, had a 250 though nearly 20 years ago. i did kinda regret never owning a 500 or 750 i loved the air cooled rd's and had a couple of 250's, one a 250a, old round tank, another a 250e with allspeeds and rearsets and a 250dx fitted with points engine and a yr5 top end :good: i did own an unrestricted RZV500lc though, jap version of the RD500lc after owning at least half a dozen 350lc's :yahoo:
I loved the LC frenzy of the mid 1980's when Micron or Allspeed shod 350's were a fairly common site on the road :grin:
were those 2t 750triples reliable in the slightest? i mean surely if an rs can barely handle the stress of life one of those is a ticking time bomb but does sound nice and i think its wrong how the government has got so uptight on rules and regulations now even the pictures of dave on his rd things look nicer then they are now im sure that same street now youd be lucky to get a parking space i wish i was born 10 or 15 years earlier
people didn't do the mileages that they do today, most people worked in their home town, as most homes didn't have a vehicle and the roads were pretty deserted compared with today. When my dad who was a mechanic who owned a garage, took us to the sea side, which was a mere 60 miles away, he would stop once or twice to let the engine cool down. A few weeks ago I blatted 175 miles, picked up something I bought off the web, and blatted back 175 miles non stop without thought or worry........... expectations have changed. Sunday morning, many of the men who owned cars would be tinkering with them, mainly the points ignition. How often do owners lift the bonnet these days? Were the bikes reliable? yes and no............ yes because the riders were more hands on, and no because three and four cylinder bikes were practically new to the masses and technologically under developed. Too little R&D. The oils of the 70s were very crude, and caused many the death of an engine. The first disc brakes........... got to be tried to be believed, by todays standards they were wooden. In the wet, you just didn't know if you were going to stop. As said you could ride a 250 on L plates, a 250 two strokes top speed was about 90ish and 80ish for the four strokes but the acceleration was poles apart. A 250 today with a hypothetical malossi big bore kit on it, would be good for 140. :clapping: In the "old days," many people chose bikes because they couldn't afford to buy or run cars, hence side-car combinations, I think we are reaching another era where people will be turning back to two wheels, and yet cars are cheap to buy, but murder to keep on the road, especially with all the back door taxs.
