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I've just won a tatty 350 YPVS on ebay for £2200

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-RD350 ... true&rt=nc

'Bidding has ended on this item'.

No pics.

Need pics.

In hoping you're pleased, but, well

weeksy wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:21 pm In hoping you're pleased, but, well

Have you seen what a nice one costs, I am happy, wanted one to ride for ages, but I'm not prepared to pay £6K for one.

Julian_Boolean wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:26 pm

weeksy wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:21 pm In hoping you're pleased, but, well

Have you seen what a nice one costs, I am happy, wanted one to ride for ages, but I'm not prepared to pay £6K for one.

You know me by now fella, they're so far down my list if bikes I'd view on eBay I have no concept of price for ibe

My old LCs were worth fuck all

Ah,see the pics now. It'll clean up.

Is it on a Q plate?

Skub wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:14 pm Ah,see the pics now. It'll clean up.

Is it on a Q plate?

Yes, one of the reasons it's cheap, I know where I can get a frame with a V5

I've got a rear wheel for one of them.

I like it how it is

asmethurst99 wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:35 pm I like it how it is

I can't see one good thing about it.

Yorick wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:41 pm

asmethurst99 wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:35 pm I like it how it is

I can't see one good thing about it.

It's far far away from you

weeksy wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:21 pm In hoping you're pleased, but, well

Yorick wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:41 pm

asmethurst99 wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:35 pm I like it how it is

I can't see one good thing about it.

I guess it had to come one day, and here it is- I agree with Yorick, there I've said it
Seriously- even though I reckon I love LCs at least as much as anyone on here, thats so not my cup of tea and something I'd run a mile from , but hey, it'll blend it well with the rest of your stable

All piss-taking aside though, it's a smoker, and it will be an interesting thread assuming you do one, so gets a thumbs up from me
- what do you have planned for it, just ride it as is (once you get it running of course), or some fettling / re-styling etc?

Originalish headlight, a set of clip ons or ace bars and it will look loads better.

Hope it runs ok and doesnt end up as a money pit

Good man, that's the sort of shitter I'd consider buying.

Worth trying to get it dated and thereby get a proper registration number? It cost £30 or £35 to get my TDR dated for the DVLA. It was dated by the aircooled RD club.

cheb wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:25 pm
Worth trying to get it dated and thereby get a proper registration number?

Indeed, just because it was a race bike doesn't mean it needs to go on a Q Plate... unless someone took the grinder to the frame number?

I think my Dad once told me , if you've got nothing nice to say , say nothing at all.
But then again , he might not have.

Nobby wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:47 pm I think my Dad once told me , if you've got nothing nice to say , say nothing at all.
But then again , he might not have.

That'll never catch on for the interwebz.

Nobby wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:47 pm I think my Dad once told me , if you've got nothing nice to say , say nothing at all.
But then again , he might not have.

He wasn't your real dad.

Plans for it, get it running, sounds like blocked pilot and cold start jets, could be a knackered stator, worst it'll be is the crank seals, which still isn't too bad to do as I can do everything apart from any machining myself.
The cosmetics will get sorted with a replica 1983 fairing, a standard seat and tail piece, it then depends on how much I want to spend on it, but the frame might as well be returned to red as it would have been originally, if the engine has to come apart might as well get the casings coated and paint the top end black. Whether I get the rest of the bodywork back to original will come down to how much I want to spend.

To be fair I also quite like it as it if and may not do much at all with it.

What I'm going to use it for? Quite tempted to use it for drag racing, a stroker is massive fun on a drag strip, and I've got a better bike for the road and a better bike for the track - both 30 year old Yamaha's.