Yes, that is a Shoei fairing. Originally sold in yellow, if memory serves. The seat is a Don Vesco, the trunk section was actually quite handy, the backrest section snapped down, I could pack for a weekend trip including 2 qts of Castrol 2 smoke oil with that seatback and an Eclipse tankbag.
The same seat is shown, reworked, on the second RD400 I did. The gas tank on the second RD400 is actually an RD400 "coffin" tank restyled to look like the RD350 tank.
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This little beauty is courtesy of our British bud, Simon.
It's a 69-70 Norton 750 'S' Commando. It was a U.S. export model but Si had one in England (not this one) and I restored one just like this...a great little bike.
They had the most beautiful exhaust note of any motorcycle I've ever heard!
Edit: Sorry Simon...not welcome here.
It's a 69-70 Norton 750 'S' Commando. It was a U.S. export model but Si had one in England (not this one) and I restored one just like this...a great little bike.
They had the most beautiful exhaust note of any motorcycle I've ever heard!
Edit: Sorry Simon...not welcome here.
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Hey socal, bakernks...my first street bike was a Red Yamaha '73 RD350...six speed, front disc...pretty cool for more than 30 years ago.
Had a little trouble keeping those plugs clean though. Any trouble with yours? (Buddy of mine had an R5, and his ran cleaner.)
Also I used a "Uni-Syn" device (that I also used on my MGB at the time) to keep the carbs in synch...anyone remember that thing?
But the bullet machine of the time that I really lusted for then was the Kaw 750 two-stroker.
How about you?
Had a little trouble keeping those plugs clean though. Any trouble with yours? (Buddy of mine had an R5, and his ran cleaner.)
Also I used a "Uni-Syn" device (that I also used on my MGB at the time) to keep the carbs in synch...anyone remember that thing?
But the bullet machine of the time that I really lusted for then was the Kaw 750 two-stroker.
How about you?
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My RD350 was an import from Japan that a service man brought over. Had very few miles & had been in storage for years. Seedo was in KPH only, had to do the conversions in my brain. I think it was a 71 & I bought it in 78. I think I paid $600 for what was basically a new bike. I could straddle it, lay it down, & pick it up. Was about like riding a dirt bike on the street as it only weighed about 200 lbs if I remember right. I only weighed about 135 lbs in those days (190 these days) . Was an early enough year that it was a drum brake in front.
I had huge trouble at first keeping one cylinder from fouling, had to really rev her up, & then sometimes it would be running on one cyclinder & then the fouled one would kick in & I'd literaly be wheeling it down the street.
The one piston finally burned a hole in it, I tore the engine down. Turns out there was a technical bulliitin for a 50 cent ruber washer seal on the main crank that included a little rubber square that sealed up the crank key slot. After that the bike ran great & never had another problem. I used to take her out to a rural highway at midnight and run flat out out, 95mph seated upright, 102 mph with my chin on the tank peering over the guages, the beam headlight far to short to live by, every fiber of my being concentrating on staying alive. Then back to hitting the calculus book wide awake from the buzz.
I traded it for $300 & a Suzuki GT380 that had a cracked bolt mount for the clutch cover. I tore that bike down, had the case arc welded, put her back together, and by the time I was back on the road the friend I traded with had crashed the RD as it was a faster bike than the GT380. My opinion back then was that Yamahas were more performance oriented & a bit twitchy, Suzukis were heavier, more solid & dependable, & a bit slower. Was great fun setting the three mechanical points using a little contact light & a guage to show mm below TDC. When tuned right the bike would make over 100MPH. That little 3 cyclinder 380cc 2 stroke was a smooth motor. The three into four exhaust made it look like a pretty decent size bike. I still look at them on EBAY from time to time.
O the days of 2 strokes. Laying down a blanket of sweet blue smoke along Florida streets like the mosquito abatement planes on an early morning run.
My RD350 was an import from Japan that a service man brought over. Had very few miles & had been in storage for years. Seedo was in KPH only, had to do the conversions in my brain. I think it was a 71 & I bought it in 78. I think I paid $600 for what was basically a new bike. I could straddle it, lay it down, & pick it up. Was about like riding a dirt bike on the street as it only weighed about 200 lbs if I remember right. I only weighed about 135 lbs in those days (190 these days) . Was an early enough year that it was a drum brake in front.
I had huge trouble at first keeping one cylinder from fouling, had to really rev her up, & then sometimes it would be running on one cyclinder & then the fouled one would kick in & I'd literaly be wheeling it down the street.
The one piston finally burned a hole in it, I tore the engine down. Turns out there was a technical bulliitin for a 50 cent ruber washer seal on the main crank that included a little rubber square that sealed up the crank key slot. After that the bike ran great & never had another problem. I used to take her out to a rural highway at midnight and run flat out out, 95mph seated upright, 102 mph with my chin on the tank peering over the guages, the beam headlight far to short to live by, every fiber of my being concentrating on staying alive. Then back to hitting the calculus book wide awake from the buzz.
I traded it for $300 & a Suzuki GT380 that had a cracked bolt mount for the clutch cover. I tore that bike down, had the case arc welded, put her back together, and by the time I was back on the road the friend I traded with had crashed the RD as it was a faster bike than the GT380. My opinion back then was that Yamahas were more performance oriented & a bit twitchy, Suzukis were heavier, more solid & dependable, & a bit slower. Was great fun setting the three mechanical points using a little contact light & a guage to show mm below TDC. When tuned right the bike would make over 100MPH. That little 3 cyclinder 380cc 2 stroke was a smooth motor. The three into four exhaust made it look like a pretty decent size bike. I still look at them on EBAY from time to time.
O the days of 2 strokes. Laying down a blanket of sweet blue smoke along Florida streets like the mosquito abatement planes on an early morning run.
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Hey socal...I could not remember what the Suz 380 looked like (I know Alzheimers) and then I looked it up, and OH YEAH!!! ... I remember those, with the angular cylinder heads.
And yes, at the time, Suz was know as a great bike, but not a speed machine. Yam was known then as the best handling...Kaw 3 cylinder machines as untamed beasts, but certainly not best handling.
Although obviously completely different than a BMW, the Suz then had some of the same all-around qualities that we enjoy in our R1150R.
http://www.suzukicycles.org/GT-series/G ... ures.shtml
1973 was the first year the RD350 was introduced to US. I purchased new for $1000 in December 1972, earned from being a lifeguard in summer (tough job!), and "clean-up" lawn jobs (much harder) from the prior fall season. Great front page spread and article in Cycle World then...that sold me on the bike.
I later brought the bike into my dorm room and parked it near my bed, which seemed perfectly normal to me. I could not comprehend then why my roomate was so pissed at me for adding such a beautiful piece of machinery to our rather small dorm room.
Back then my buddies and I tended to call our machines "Cycles" not bikes, or motorcycles.
Well, as good as it was...I'm sure glad we are, where we are, with bikes today... Come to think of it, its almost time for my ride today ... Later
And yes, at the time, Suz was know as a great bike, but not a speed machine. Yam was known then as the best handling...Kaw 3 cylinder machines as untamed beasts, but certainly not best handling.
Although obviously completely different than a BMW, the Suz then had some of the same all-around qualities that we enjoy in our R1150R.
http://www.suzukicycles.org/GT-series/G ... ures.shtml
1973 was the first year the RD350 was introduced to US. I purchased new for $1000 in December 1972, earned from being a lifeguard in summer (tough job!), and "clean-up" lawn jobs (much harder) from the prior fall season. Great front page spread and article in Cycle World then...that sold me on the bike.
I later brought the bike into my dorm room and parked it near my bed, which seemed perfectly normal to me. I could not comprehend then why my roomate was so pissed at me for adding such a beautiful piece of machinery to our rather small dorm room.
Back then my buddies and I tended to call our machines "Cycles" not bikes, or motorcycles.
Well, as good as it was...I'm sure glad we are, where we are, with bikes today... Come to think of it, its almost time for my ride today ... Later
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You Sir, are a Master of Understatement!Kaw 3 cylinder machines as untamed beasts, but certainly not best handling.
Here's a little sidebar I wrote a few years ago to accompany a magazine article I had written about a Fort Worth/Dallas area Kawasaki Triples club that I named "The Blues Streak Boys" (the club and the article.)
Memories at Mach III
Edit" Not appropriate...gotta go.
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No Mach III images handy...how 'bout a nice 750 Mach IV?
Faster, quicker and not nearly as scary as a Mach III!
Edit: Mach IV's have no place here.
Faster, quicker and not nearly as scary as a Mach III!
Edit: Mach IV's have no place here.
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Wow!
Wow!
RD's, Mach III's, and Suzuki triples...
Odd as it may seem, I owned all three. Three different RD's, one insane Mach III, and one Suzuki GT-380.
First came the 1973 RD-350, just like in Ed K's picture. It was a trade-in at the Honda shop I worked at as a mechanic (at the time). Had only 600 miles on it. Guy who traded it in just couldn't get used to it and traded it in on a Honda CB-350-F four-cylinder (I also owned one of those along the way, right after the RD...). What an incredible motorcycle it was! It handled, really *STOPPED*, and went way faster than it had a right, too. It wasn't long until mine sprouted expansion chambers and lower bars. I had more fun on that bike than I thought I could on a street bike, and it never failed me. Funny thing was, the only time it fouled a plug on me was during my motorcycle driving test where the cop follows you. I had already been riding street bikes, but figured it was time to finally get a motorcyle license... During the friggin' test I was being so careful to go slow and quiet that I ended up fouling a plug, so then I had to rev the snot out of it just to keep it running! Cop marked me points off for that, but I still passed.
Don't really remember why I sold it, but I did to a good friend of mine, and he rode until 1976 when he traded it for a Honda CB-400-F.
I had a few more bikes (CB-350-F, XL-250, XL-175, and my first Triumph, a TR-6), but then one day a good friend was selling his Suzuki GT-380, and it just seemed too good a deal to pass up. I was between street bikes at the time, and he needed money, so it was a perfect deal. That bike was literally "turbine smooth", and actually deceptively fast. It was so comfortable you could ride it all day. Made me lust for a Suzuki GT-750 "Water Buffalo", which I never got...
Then came the Mach III... Again, another used bike with less than a 1,000 miles on it when I got it, even though it was a 1973 or '74 model, and it was 1975 (IIRC). *** GOD *** was that thing fast!!! My experiences mirror Darth's though I never crashed it... Well, sort of, anyway... I swear I crashed on it a dozen times, I just never feel down. The unexpected wheelies where I nearly flipped it backwards... The rectum-puckering wobbles that would take you from one guardrail to the other... The hinge-in-the-middle ever-changing-in-mid-corner "handling" (and I use that word very loosely when it comes to my Mach III)... But still, with all its faults it still mesmerized you with its always adrenaline-pumping acceleration...
Much time passed before another two-stroke street bike... I was in college in 1979 or '80, working at a Yamaha shop as a mechanic... Word got out that there was a guy with a 1977 RD-400 with a seized lower-end. Apparently the owner had run it out of oil in the pump and cooked the lower-end rod bearings... I went and looked at it, and the bike looked new, only it didn't run. I bought it on the spot... Into the shop it went, and TZ crank pins and TZ silver-caged lower-end rod bearings replaced the cooked ones. I spent an entire night just truing the crank. Modified RD-350 pistons with bigger cutaways replaced the stockers. Days were spent porting the cylinders to Specialist II specs. Reed cages were changed along with reeds. Heads were polished and the squish bands reshaped, then milled for more compression. Airbox was dumped and pod filter put on the bigger carbs. Clutch was beefed up. Literally no part of that engine was not ported, polished, massaged, or mic'ed. It was as perfect as I could make it... And the chasis wasn't forgotten. Bronze swingarm bushings, tapered roller steering head bearings, fork internal modded and polished, stiffer fork springs, lower handlebars, bar-end mirror, cut-down seat, S&W rear shocks, Specialist II rear-sets, Michelin rubber F&R, and re-geared... When it was done it was flawless to me... And it ran better than I could have imagined. One late night rode it from College Station to Houston (90 miles) in an hour, and had to go 35 mph through Navasota for a few miles. It would go an honest 120 mph, which was pretty impressive for a 400.
God, it was wonderful, and I kept until I started running my own Honda shop. Sold it to an employee who just had to have it... and he rode it for years, and it was still fast while being stone reliable.
Fast forward to 1985, when I was still in the Honda business, but found a 1979 Yamaha RD-400-F "Daytona Special" in San Antonio with only 938 miles on it... Guy that owned it was a former Yamaha dealer who rode it for a while then parked it in the entry foyer of his house! He was selling that house and moving to a ranch in the Hill Country and got rid of all his bikes, and this immacualte RD fell into my hands. It joined my collection of bikes at the time - 18 in all - and was ridden only sparingly to save it. When I left the motorcycle business in the early 1990's it was sold with no more than 1,400 miles or so on it.
I have regretted that decision ever since... But not as much as the selling of my 1983 Honda MVX-250-F V-3 two-stroke - a Japanese domestic model never imported into the USA... But that's another story.
Ah, yes... Two-strokes.
You know, ya' just gotta' love an engine that gets a power impulse per cylinder on every turn of the crank.
Dallara
RD's, Mach III's, and Suzuki triples...
Odd as it may seem, I owned all three. Three different RD's, one insane Mach III, and one Suzuki GT-380.
First came the 1973 RD-350, just like in Ed K's picture. It was a trade-in at the Honda shop I worked at as a mechanic (at the time). Had only 600 miles on it. Guy who traded it in just couldn't get used to it and traded it in on a Honda CB-350-F four-cylinder (I also owned one of those along the way, right after the RD...). What an incredible motorcycle it was! It handled, really *STOPPED*, and went way faster than it had a right, too. It wasn't long until mine sprouted expansion chambers and lower bars. I had more fun on that bike than I thought I could on a street bike, and it never failed me. Funny thing was, the only time it fouled a plug on me was during my motorcycle driving test where the cop follows you. I had already been riding street bikes, but figured it was time to finally get a motorcyle license... During the friggin' test I was being so careful to go slow and quiet that I ended up fouling a plug, so then I had to rev the snot out of it just to keep it running! Cop marked me points off for that, but I still passed.
Don't really remember why I sold it, but I did to a good friend of mine, and he rode until 1976 when he traded it for a Honda CB-400-F.
I had a few more bikes (CB-350-F, XL-250, XL-175, and my first Triumph, a TR-6), but then one day a good friend was selling his Suzuki GT-380, and it just seemed too good a deal to pass up. I was between street bikes at the time, and he needed money, so it was a perfect deal. That bike was literally "turbine smooth", and actually deceptively fast. It was so comfortable you could ride it all day. Made me lust for a Suzuki GT-750 "Water Buffalo", which I never got...
Then came the Mach III... Again, another used bike with less than a 1,000 miles on it when I got it, even though it was a 1973 or '74 model, and it was 1975 (IIRC). *** GOD *** was that thing fast!!! My experiences mirror Darth's though I never crashed it... Well, sort of, anyway... I swear I crashed on it a dozen times, I just never feel down. The unexpected wheelies where I nearly flipped it backwards... The rectum-puckering wobbles that would take you from one guardrail to the other... The hinge-in-the-middle ever-changing-in-mid-corner "handling" (and I use that word very loosely when it comes to my Mach III)... But still, with all its faults it still mesmerized you with its always adrenaline-pumping acceleration...
Much time passed before another two-stroke street bike... I was in college in 1979 or '80, working at a Yamaha shop as a mechanic... Word got out that there was a guy with a 1977 RD-400 with a seized lower-end. Apparently the owner had run it out of oil in the pump and cooked the lower-end rod bearings... I went and looked at it, and the bike looked new, only it didn't run. I bought it on the spot... Into the shop it went, and TZ crank pins and TZ silver-caged lower-end rod bearings replaced the cooked ones. I spent an entire night just truing the crank. Modified RD-350 pistons with bigger cutaways replaced the stockers. Days were spent porting the cylinders to Specialist II specs. Reed cages were changed along with reeds. Heads were polished and the squish bands reshaped, then milled for more compression. Airbox was dumped and pod filter put on the bigger carbs. Clutch was beefed up. Literally no part of that engine was not ported, polished, massaged, or mic'ed. It was as perfect as I could make it... And the chasis wasn't forgotten. Bronze swingarm bushings, tapered roller steering head bearings, fork internal modded and polished, stiffer fork springs, lower handlebars, bar-end mirror, cut-down seat, S&W rear shocks, Specialist II rear-sets, Michelin rubber F&R, and re-geared... When it was done it was flawless to me... And it ran better than I could have imagined. One late night rode it from College Station to Houston (90 miles) in an hour, and had to go 35 mph through Navasota for a few miles. It would go an honest 120 mph, which was pretty impressive for a 400.
God, it was wonderful, and I kept until I started running my own Honda shop. Sold it to an employee who just had to have it... and he rode it for years, and it was still fast while being stone reliable.
Fast forward to 1985, when I was still in the Honda business, but found a 1979 Yamaha RD-400-F "Daytona Special" in San Antonio with only 938 miles on it... Guy that owned it was a former Yamaha dealer who rode it for a while then parked it in the entry foyer of his house! He was selling that house and moving to a ranch in the Hill Country and got rid of all his bikes, and this immacualte RD fell into my hands. It joined my collection of bikes at the time - 18 in all - and was ridden only sparingly to save it. When I left the motorcycle business in the early 1990's it was sold with no more than 1,400 miles or so on it.
I have regretted that decision ever since... But not as much as the selling of my 1983 Honda MVX-250-F V-3 two-stroke - a Japanese domestic model never imported into the USA... But that's another story.
Ah, yes... Two-strokes.
You know, ya' just gotta' love an engine that gets a power impulse per cylinder on every turn of the crank.
Dallara
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Did somebody say...
Did somebody say they wanted Kawasaki H-1 Mach III 500cc Triple pics?
Enjoy!
Dallara
Enjoy!
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Yeppers, I had the '69 model, the ones with the white tanks & blues stripes.
One of the mags christened them Kawasaki "Blue Streaks" and that stuck around after they changed colors...even with the, err..."creative" mud-gray.
A local drag racer built an alcohol drag bike featuring 3 of these motors in-line...expansion chambers going everywhere! Made a sound that not only "woke the dead" but cleared cemetaries for a 10 mile radius!
One of the mags christened them Kawasaki "Blue Streaks" and that stuck around after they changed colors...even with the, err..."creative" mud-gray.
A local drag racer built an alcohol drag bike featuring 3 of these motors in-line...expansion chambers going everywhere! Made a sound that not only "woke the dead" but cleared cemetaries for a 10 mile radius!
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I remember them too...
The sound.
The wheelies.
The smell.
and the long trail of blue smoke they left in the air behind them..
You could tell who was in front of you by the smell of their oil..(the different oils had different smells).
I had friends with Mach II's,Mach III's and Mach IV's.
I was only young and still riding dirt bikes...these were the guys that I looked up to..they were my older sisters friends.
They would sometimes come down to the park and watch me wheelie from one side to the other..and they'd give me the thumbs up.
My faverite was the 750 Mach IV...nice gold color with the swoopy stripe.
I remember giving the throttle a blip in nutral and the thing near redlined.
Scared the hell outa me..
Bring back two strokes...I say.
DJ
The sound.
The wheelies.
The smell.
and the long trail of blue smoke they left in the air behind them..
You could tell who was in front of you by the smell of their oil..(the different oils had different smells).
I had friends with Mach II's,Mach III's and Mach IV's.
I was only young and still riding dirt bikes...these were the guys that I looked up to..they were my older sisters friends.
They would sometimes come down to the park and watch me wheelie from one side to the other..and they'd give me the thumbs up.
My faverite was the 750 Mach IV...nice gold color with the swoopy stripe.
I remember giving the throttle a blip in nutral and the thing near redlined.
Scared the hell outa me..
Bring back two strokes...I say.
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Man oh man, you guys, I had a white tank '69 while I was a test pilot for Ted Smith Aircraft in '69. Worst and most painful motorcycle wreck that I ever had was on that beast. The front brake locked at 80 MPH in bumper to bumper traffic on a LA freeway, did a snap roll and my only injury was a head to toe almost entire body road rash, I looked like something out of a horror movie. I remember sitting in a chair for about a week while my entire body scabbed up, could not move, my girl friend took very.......................................very good care of me 
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I always lusted after a water buffalo too. But now I wonder if the GT380 or maybe the GT550 triple may have been the best after all.
Something about air cooled bikes I like.
I've seen some sweet looking GT's on ebay, but they are so friggin smoky I think they might bring on road rage in LA. I'm not sure you could "import" them into California any more or not.
I see a lady rider up a Nucomb's Ranch on a Yami 350 now & then. Still looks pretty good.
I bet that Daytona Special was realy great. Those Yamaha twins were great bikes.
I always lusted after a water buffalo too. But now I wonder if the GT380 or maybe the GT550 triple may have been the best after all.
Something about air cooled bikes I like.
I've seen some sweet looking GT's on ebay, but they are so friggin smoky I think they might bring on road rage in LA. I'm not sure you could "import" them into California any more or not.
I see a lady rider up a Nucomb's Ranch on a Yami 350 now & then. Still looks pretty good.
I bet that Daytona Special was realy great. Those Yamaha twins were great bikes.
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A custom painted helmet honoring my 50R, my political affiliation (Peckerhead) and the 4-pointed star for my favorite pro motorcycle racer of all tiime, Mr. Gary Nixon.
Anybody remember him?
Edit: Can't see this.
Anybody remember him?
Edit: Can't see this.
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