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Brilliant choice Radar,I too grow up in the early eighties bike revolution,the Gpz11 was the dogs dangly bits,also when I was about 13 I was gobsmacked at the beauty of the Yamaha RD 250E coffin tank,what a gem.
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Originally posted by DiggerBrilliant choice Radar,I too grow up in the early eighties bike revolution,the Gpz11 was the dogs dangly bits,also when I was about 13 I was gobsmacked at the beauty of the Yamaha RD 250E coffin tank,what a gem.
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I had a coffin tank 1980 RD250E in 1987. Mint and only 5,000 miles on it. Wish I had never sold it.
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https://bikemeet.net/forums/topic/yamaha-rd250e/
A more detailed review of the RD
Look in the Forest if you want to find trees
A mate had a tuned RD400E in silver and black. Went like F@ck for the time. Mine was just a humble RD250E
Look in the Forest if you want to find trees
Sounds corny, but I owned almost all those bikes at some stage.
The 999R was the purest sportsbike I ever owned, with the most incredible sound as the huge vee motor went past 10,000 rpm, an unheard of engine speed for a big twin until recent times.So many favourites really, the Honda CBX, the Kawasaki Z1300, RD500LC (pretty much the first one sold here), Ducati 916, Honda VFR1000R (gear-driven cams model), so so many great bikes.
A guy called Stan Stephens tuned the RD500LC for me. He said it was a good engine but not particularly easy to improve without lots of work. He got it from the standard 95 bhp to around 115 bhp, which at the time was a lot, especially as the bike was much lighter than other machinery with the same power, like a Honda CB1100, Kawasaki 1100 or whatever.
I had 170 mph out of mine on the clock, probably a true 160 mph.
It certainly looked radical for the time and everyone wanted to see it and talk about it!Confession though. When I tracked it for the only time, it was blitzed through the turns by a guy on a bike I later owned, a Suzuki RG500. The Suzuki was lighter and nimbler and the rider was an ex-professional!
oh and forgot this one:
The Yamaha R7, needed about £5k spending on the road bike to make it good on top of a stupid expensive RRP (they made it so it could be sold in all markets and Germany ment we were restricted to under 100bhp, the race zorst alone cost around £3.5k!)
One of my mates has one owned from new in his garage the lucky bugger. It only comes out on very very special days tho!
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