Spotted turning round in Marlborough college today about 13:00ish, think it was you based on the helmet in your avatar :D
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Spotted turning round in Marlborough college today about 13:00ish, think it was you based on the helmet in your avatar :D
Yes it twas me.
I had been to visit someone I know who has a few old RD's
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His workshop which is a four car garage - Three of them are solid bike storage up to the roof
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I took this in another big garage. The boxes are all full of RD spares to go on ebay.
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Yes the chap buys old aircooled RD's and LC's and makes a living from dealing in parts.
He sells complete bikes as well. This is an original 2 owners (brothers) RD350LC. Its only done a few thousand miles....
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He owns a bit of land as well - this is going to be his lawn mower.
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People that strip classic bikes to sell on ebay tend to be bad people in the classic circles.
Well this chap will restore good ones.
This is a very rare pre-production RD400C that he restored and now lives in his living room.
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Yamaha frame numbers always start from 101 and go upwards. Yamaha made test bikes with numbers below 100 - after testing these bikes were retuned to Yamaha and destroyed. This one has a frame number 25 and came from Germany. Back in the 70's a dealer mechanic got the sack and on leaving he "borrowed" this bike.. ;)
The next few years it was used as a field bike. My mate paid 1 Euro for it as a wreck off ebay. He only found out wot it was when he got it home and investigated its history. Current value is over 10 grand - a man in Dubai has offered cash for it
A yes would have done! ;D i did wonder what you were sat on? Happy days cause i got one right!
Good to see the art of filling garages with bits hasn't died! :D
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Fookin Hell!!!! :o
That's a lot of RD's!!!!!
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Originally Posted by porkies
ah thanks my man ;D