1975 RD350
Well, I’m really trying to decide if I’m going to step into the vintage bike scene with a 75 Yamaha RD350 that I can get for a decent price. I have a friend who is very much into vintage Japanese bikes, and he thinks it is a good bike to get my feet wet with since they are easy to get parts for and stuff is cheap. So, I’ll have to make up my mind in the next few days, but a cool old 2 stroke would be a lot of fun. Here is a good article about them at Motorcyclist.
Return with us now to the blissful ignorance of pre-politically correct, mid-’70s America. Before we had any clue about the myriad dangers of triple cheeseburgers, saturated fat, unburned hydrocarbons and street-going two-strokes, there was the RD350. Dirty, foul-mouthed, deliciously quick and relatively affordable, it was (is?) a Giant Killer for the ages.
From the first ’73 RD350 to the last 1975 RD350B, Yamaha’s overachieving pocket rocket humiliated triples and fours packing over twice its 347ccs on racetracks and backroads all over the planet. Back when bell-bottoms were cool and Harley’s weren’t, most anybody’s big-bore multi roasted the RD in a straight line. Horsepower was cheap, and any fool could twist a throttle.
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