08-02-2017, 12:42 AM
(08-02-2017, 12:22 AM)Django_imp Wrote: @Nortoon:
I bought a Yamaha RD250/350 3 times:
1. Was my first motorcycle at all, bought it 1977, rode it 5 years, sold it with 92,000 km on the clock. I knew every single screw of this machine by name.
2. 1983 I had a Honda CB500T, but stumbled over a used RD250. Bought it as a second ride, rode it, remembered, why I liked the CB500T more and sold it a year later to my brother.
3. 1988 While my main ride was a Yamaha XS650, I bought the RD250 back from my brother as I still was taken with it. I built it up to the 350 ccm displacement but rode it very seldom. I sold it 2007, when I was divorced.
No regret to sell it. I really enjoy, when I see a RD on the road or at a gathering. However, I'm perfectly happy without owning one.
It's like Nortoon says...
I have owned more than a dozen bikes of all types during my 27 years of motorcycling. The four I remember most fondly were my two BSAs, a 1982 Goldwing Aspencade (the Cadillac of motorcycles), and a 1971 Yamaha 350 R5.
I transformed the R5 into a café racer by simply turning the handlebars upside-down. It was light, quick, nimble and would do "the ton". I put 10,000 miles on it the first summer I bought it. It was very reliable and easy to maintain. I could do an oil change, chain lube, and tune-up in a morning.