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RD400 video - PowerDubs_imp - 02-02-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLOvE0HhGJk
RE: RD400 video - GoldOxide_imp - 02-02-2023
Ooooooo. The video looks to be entertaining (no matter what happens), since I owned a '76 model.
The specimen resembles just as I remember riding one last.
RD400 video - PowerDubs_imp - 02-02-2023
I appreciate his museum and love for cool old bikes.
I understand he is a business though.
Yeah he tries to get top dollar for his stuff, but heck so does your average dude on craigslist.
I like watching his videos because they are not afraid to rip on the bikes and give them the beans.
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RE: RD400 video - PowerDubs_imp - 02-02-2023
"Just bike oriented Richard Rawlings wannabe."
Perfect analogy...
RE: RD400 video - tommymck - 02-02-2023
(02-02-2023, 01:43 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: what a complete rip off. 4k? that's maybe 1 full day in the shop of work. see the open holes in the fuel bowls in the side? those are for pressure correction fittings that plumb to the airbox that should be there for the air jet. he was lazy and drilled out the block at the 6 o clock position and didn't reset it to factory. Also note, the RH cyl smokes a bit more. that's a RH crank seal going out. also, not a period correct petcock, not even close to correct, but a cheap replacement.
Most people in the 2 stroke vintage community really dislike kaplan and his ads and his sales. Half the info is wrong, intentional or not. and his stuff is always, always over priced. But to each their own. its a pretty decent 400 but def nothing special.
Yeah.. It is rather insulting to suggest that they spent $3200 in real labor on the bike based on their description. For my general education, where on the bowl should I be looking for the drilled out hole? I'm as far from an expert on these as there can be, but the opening on the lower part of the bowl towards the rear on the side looks what I'm used to seeing, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
RE: RD400 video - tommymck - 02-02-2023
Thanks m!
Great info. I've seen a few of these, and have never actually seen them the way that they are supposed to be then. Learn somf'n new every day!
RE: RD400 video - peterbaron - 02-03-2023
+1, educated and professional info
RE: RD400 video - GoldOxide_imp - 02-03-2023
(02-02-2023, 03:24 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: Ooooooo. The video looks to be entertaining (no matter what happens), since I owned a '76 model.
The specimen resembles just as I remember riding one last.
I liked the video.
Of course, I focused more on the actual bike than the humans blathering in the background.
Yeah, I recall a few times my '76 RD400 blew more smoke out of one stack versus the other from time-to-time. Never seemed to affect its operational behaviour from a punk's point-of-view.
RE: RD400 video - peterbaron - 02-03-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyMdR81QMo8
RE: RD400 video - peterbaron - 02-03-2023
There is always a soft spot in my heart for the smokies...that I grew up with
