RACE DERIVED: YAMAHA RD350 CAFE RACER BY MOTOEXOTICA

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RACE DERIVED: YAMAHA RD350 CAFE RACER BY MOTOEXOTICA

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Funky!

I bet that's a blast
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Well it's got a DG cylinder head, anodised gold, but it's missing the diamond stiching on the seat.

Those spannies are just some fabricator showing off!
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1 brake disc, the mounting points for the other calliper left on. 2/10 poor effort
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Stupid, hideous exhausts and the cylinder head needs hammeriting, but apart from that I like it!
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Crossed over headers are a more elegant way of keeping the length but having the pipes stop short at the back of the bike.
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I like it apart from the stupid spannies
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Re: RACE DERIVED: YAMAHA RD350 CAFE RACER BY MOTOEXOTICA

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Quite an interesting effort,I hate the chopped down too-short rear end, and that they haven't removed the caliper mount from the RH fork leg but apart from that I quite like the look of it.
Much prefer this one though that I got from that page when reading about it.

http://www.bikebound.com/2019/01/11/yam ... afe-racer/
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Dull or old-fashioned/boring looking some might say, and it needs to lose the centrestand and bar ends, but I like the simplicity, and thinking in the build of this one :)
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Re: RACE DERIVED: YAMAHA RD350 CAFE RACER BY MOTOEXOTICA

Post by Le_Fromage_Grande »

That's better, a TZ seat unit would look nicer.

I just found a very nice RZ250R on eBay, please somebody buy it before I end up with another 1980s Yamaha

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RZ250RR-YPVS ... SwPzhgEwfQ
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