The Yamaha RD350LC is a motorcycle that was initially released in 1980 - just about the time the world thought the end of the 2-stroke was nigh. It was an
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“It’s both my pride and joy, and shame and embarrassment” Loved and neglected in equal measure, Phil’s RD350 LC is a portal in time back to his early 20s. I’m not sure if this is a tale of a life-long love affair, or of a curse, an albatross, a millstone around my ever-fattening neck. Maybe you can help me decide… Like many middle-aged motorcyclists there’s one bike with which I’ve a stronger emotional attachment than any other. For me, and many others of my 50-year-old generation, it’s Yamaha’s iconic, early ‘80s LC. The ‘why’ is simple: my biking and adult life blossomed with my LC: first a 250, then a 350 that transported me into my early 20s and the bigger world. I went to Uni on it, saw Sheene at the Brit GP on it and I ventured into France for my first solo foreign travels on it. It encapsulates my youth. Then, 20-odd years later, again like many middle-aged motorcyclists, some menopausal yearning for nostalgia swept over me manifested most by an irresistible urge to re-acquire
This was Yamaha's parting two-stroke shot as emissions limits put an end to "ring-dings" of the era.
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This stunning, modified, Yamaha RD350LC is one of the stars of Practical Sportsbikes – a new sister magazine to MCN launched this week. Free 16-page sample of new magazine ‘Practical Sportsbikes’ Crispin Fuggle’s 350LC/RGV hybrid has just been finished. It’s so fresh, in fact, it’s not yet been run in. But if it goes half as good as it looks it’ll be a belter. Crispin was bitten by the LC bug in 1985. He was 17, had just passed his test and was tearing around Kent on a 350LC. “It had Microns, a Pro-Am fairing and bellypan and Boysen reeds. I thought they’d make it quicker,” he remembers. “I loved that bike. I had all sorts after that – RGs, RGVs, supermotos, superbikes – but in 2002 I came full circle and bought an LC. My R1 was too fast for the road, I was about to be a dad, so an LC was the obvious choice.” Free 16-page sample of new magazine ‘Practical Sportsbikes’ This is his second since then. The first is near standard. This, as you see, is not. “It was a right lash-up
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Unfortunately I couldn't find any other pictures of this, epic Yamaha RZ500 build.
The Lab Rat - a modern two-stroke screamer... The RZ350 was the final evolution of Yamaha's two-stroke RD series street bikes -- a liquid-cooled, dual-carb street weapon with 60 horsepower on tap, a wild powerband, and a "Perfect 10" rating on the Cycle World fun scale. Looking at the final and
