2 stroke street bikes!!

[scb67]

^^ Thats an "artists" rendition of what a "new" two stoke might look like. I WISH it war real!

 

[RZ331]

Here will be my next 2stroke if it comes to be:

"In light of some rumors that street legal two-strokes might make a comeback (incorporating the latest clean burning technology, no doubt), our friend Tor sent us this concept drawing of a new Yamaha RD350 (courtesy of artist Oberdan Bezzi). You may recall that clean burning two-strokes do exist, but many recent efforts to introduce commercially viable street legal two-stroke street bikes in Europe and the U.S. have been unsuccessful."

 

[rbm]

I will have a few more soon.....the bike is being repainted in Luck Strike colors and I am putting new forks and mag wheels on the bike...

Love the Lucky Strike color scheme. Please do post pics when it's finished.

 

[rbm]

^^ Thats an "artists" rendition of what a "new" two stoke might look like. I WISH it war real!

you mean that is just someone's wet dream?

 

[Stormdragon]

you mean that is just someone's wet dream?

Many peoples wet dream. You are correct sir.

 

[CaliRVF]

I will have a few more soon.....the bike is being repainted in Luck Strike colors and I am putting new forks and mag wheels on the bike...

no.. don't paint over the original scheme..
keeping the original body and source the extra panels for the lucky strike scheme ..

Got to love the lucky strike..

 

[scb67]

Ha! I wish....I have had the bike for 9 months now....looked all over for bodywork with no luck..betwen the rareness of the bike (only 1,900 or so built and only for Japan and Hong Kong), its very hard to find bodywork. Okshon (yahoo Japan) will have bodywork there but its very hard and very expensive to get the parts here.

My bodywork was damaged already and woud have needed paint and repair anyway so I decided to just do the whole bike. But I chose the LS paint so it would be correct in spirit ......wanted to avoid the "rizala" paint scheme or anything else new.

Let me know if there are any "grey market" bike rides in the bay area....or who is going to Laguna

Scott

 

[YSR89]

Here are mine, both with engines out currently for rebuilds. (Pshhh... 2 strokes)

1975 RD200, LOL

1974 KS125, even more LOL

1989 YSR50/DT175 tiny LOL

 

[scb67]

So cute

 

[jdubau]

Moto Carrera Del Mar Special

 

[YSR89]

 

[shoelace]

man... i knew it was too good to be true. so damn perfect. wow. i would pay a mint for that. check out the rd in roberts' livery. OUCH

 

[Hellmutt]

My Stroker '87 NS400R

This is an old picture. Doing some mods on this bike so I only have been able to ride it once around the block this year. Riding season is over here, too cold and snow has started. This winter upgrading forks and doing the wide tire conversion (VF1000R ). Maybe some NSR250 (MC16) carbs. I did a Aprilia RS250 shock last year, brakes, chambers, end cans, jetting.

 

[lgyee4]

Here is my 500

My old 400

A plated WR200

and my latest project, RZ350

 

[mean dad]

never knew why they didn't throw red on the wheels instead of that gold crap. looks fine on the yellow/black version, but not on the red/white models.

 

[DannoXYZ]

Gold wheels were very '80s style. Red sports cars like Porsche and Ferraris had them as well. I remember seeing some red or white wheels on those bikes and it just didn't look right at the time. I actually thought black wheels worked better.

 

[2StrokeGrrl]

Wow, lots of true exotica on this thread...NICE. However, I prefer to ride my bikes as much as possible, and seeing how difficult it may be to source parts, I'd rather have several older RDs and a couple of RZ350s...plenty of parts available.

I saw a couple pages back someone posted a pic from a Portland SFRC 2 stroke ride. My '75 RD350 was in the front. It has since had some enhancements done, so I'll post that first:

Next is the '85 RZ350 with the '79 Daytona Special, taken while riding one of our backroad haunts in Yacolt, WA:

A couple of summers ago I had reconstructive surgery on my R thumb so I couldn't ride for almost a year. So what does a girl do to console herself? Why, buy a couple more 2 strokes, of course. A '76 RD400; the '66 X6 Hustler was captured on radar back in the day @ 101mph:

I also have a couple of tiddlers. Here is a pic of when I brought home a newly restored RD125, and I have since ran out of room so the RD60 currently resides in the kitchen:

I have another RZ350 currently being resurrected, and my first bike, a '72 G5 100 Kawi in about 300 pieces. It's restoration will be resumed once I finish building a storage shed in the back yard, after resuming my attention on this, the bike that has been the intermittent focus of my RD love for about a decade. It is again apart for what I hope are the final changes...but then are custom cafe racers ever truly done????

 

[Supermoto594]

My next project

 

[BAE 557]

This RD 350 is loaded with mods



.

 

[BAE 557]

Dude, N O T H I N G wheelies like a Kawasaki triple, nothing.


Lonster

I wouldn't say nothing.......


TZ750 - inline 4 cylinder liquid cooled