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A revamped old smoker and a cool backstory.
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Nice apart from all of the bodywork and the colour
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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That's a nice looking thing.
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Nicely proportioned.I quite like this.
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Buckaroo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 6:30 pm Nicely proportioned.I quite like this.
Yup, it's a nice job. Not a lot I'd change if it were mine. :thumbup:
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Looks good, functional, no faff.
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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These seat unit and big gap under, kills it
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Yorick wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:51 pm These seat unit and big gap under, kills it
I wouldn't say it kills it, just leaves it badly wounded... :)

But I agree, the seat is pants to be honest, it looks what it is - an upholstered bench. At the very least it should hide the top frame rail and not be just so square (in all senses of the word). The tail section is a complete mess. And the section below the seat is crying out to be filled in - not completely, just the top half/two thirds. Leave the bottom part of the triangle open to show off the shock and swingarm.

Otherwise I really like it. And I bet it goes and handles well.
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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That is fucking horrible.
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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USD forks kills it for me.

Why had it got LC cigar pipes on it?
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:48 pm USD forks kills it for me.

Why had it got LC cigar pipes on it?
I don't mind the USD forks or the monoshock conversion, but the pipes that stick out way behind the back wheel just look daft... plus the seat / hole. Plus the sub-CX500 flyscreen.

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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Do you think they 'borrowed' the front tyre?
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Yorick wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:51 pm These seat unit and big gap under, kills it
Good place to put your sarnies :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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Personally I'm sick to death of old fudgers fawning over stock restored RDs, so this is a winner for me
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Re: RD 350 Custom

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I sort of agree because I'm sure most of us thought the same way about 80s streetfighters. I'm sure there must have been some lovely ones, but the vast majority were unlovely unimaginative horrors
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