1980 Yamaha RD125 DX
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I am such a scaredy wimp that I have been wearing some ex police levva traaahsers and ex police boots that I found for buttons on eBay and a faux-seventies RTX jacket with stripes on, but I am at least wearing an open face helmet. I have found that if I try to ski, or ride a motorbike without gloves on I just stop. Maybe it's because of reading some injury reports when I was young and impressionable. As Oscar Wilde may or may not have said - "sometimes over dressed, always over educated". But I do have some of those jeans with the hidey away kevlar bits - modern bike kit is sooo much better than the old stuff. And a real seventies tan coloured Connolly leather arse length double breasted car coat (bought when I had a very cool 1970 car) that I can wear over one of those thin shirts with Kevlar bits.
Collecting a bike via a Euro tour is the obvious thing to do, and I feel a failure for not doing this. That Cornwall place really is far way, though. You get to Exeter and think you're nearly there, but it's still bleeding miles away. On the way back I drove the Sherpa flat out for about a million hours and when I stopped for petrol I was still in Cornwall.
I am doing a 2000 mile Euro tour in July, but that will be in a 1983 Rover SD1, not on a bike.
Collecting a bike via a Euro tour is the obvious thing to do, and I feel a failure for not doing this. That Cornwall place really is far way, though. You get to Exeter and think you're nearly there, but it's still bleeding miles away. On the way back I drove the Sherpa flat out for about a million hours and when I stopped for petrol I was still in Cornwall.
I am doing a 2000 mile Euro tour in July, but that will be in a 1983 Rover SD1, not on a bike.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 16th June 07:41
You really didn't have to post that ad for the 200, I've already got more old two stroke guff than I need.
Hopefully we'll see a pic of you in that car coat. Sounds superb.
You are brave riding in an open facer, they terrify me.
Can we have a video of your RD coughing and wheezing it's two stroke song.
Ps Just get a big bike for Europe, it was brilliant. My one weighs about 280 kg, It never even fell over so weedy didn't matter.
Hopefully we'll see a pic of you in that car coat. Sounds superb.
You are brave riding in an open facer, they terrify me.
Can we have a video of your RD coughing and wheezing it's two stroke song.
Ps Just get a big bike for Europe, it was brilliant. My one weighs about 280 kg, It never even fell over so weedy didn't matter.
Breadvan72 said:
I passed my test on a RD200, 13/5/80, lent to me by my good friend who sadly passed away in 2010.Fond memories.
No vids as yet but here are some photies from a trip to a pleasant country pub. This involved riding up the western escarpment of the Chilterns (Aston Hill on the A40). A fast double-laned climb, popular with big Triumphs and Ducatis and also with Caterhams and so on, and a blast in my slightly tuned-up Dolomite Sprint. On the RD125, very noisy and a bit marginal in low gear with pie-eating me onboard, but still fun, and a hoot on the way down.
I am still lacking the CBA factor to swap the illegal and naff black plate for a legal and non naff yellow one. I better get on with that, as there are a surprisingly large number of police cars in my area, mostly busy socially cleansing the area of anyone who looks like they might not be an investment banker, as it's a drearily affluent part of the world. I am moving back to somewhere civilised soon (ie London) and the RD will become a City bike until such time as strokers are banned from smokeyville.
I am still lacking the CBA factor to swap the illegal and naff black plate for a legal and non naff yellow one. I better get on with that, as there are a surprisingly large number of police cars in my area, mostly busy socially cleansing the area of anyone who looks like they might not be an investment banker, as it's a drearily affluent part of the world. I am moving back to somewhere civilised soon (ie London) and the RD will become a City bike until such time as strokers are banned from smokeyville.
I do like that bike. Not so sure about the costume.
I did my CBT about a month ago and picked up something similar for my first bike. I'm not entirely sure (read as absolutely certain) it's not strictly learner legal. I believe it's shares many parts with the RD, and is about the same age as yours.
It seems a better way of spending my time on a (not quite) 125cc than a similarly styled Chinese bike and is a lot more fun than the Van Van that I used at the training centre.
I did my CBT about a month ago and picked up something similar for my first bike. I'm not entirely sure (read as absolutely certain) it's not strictly learner legal. I believe it's shares many parts with the RD, and is about the same age as yours.
It seems a better way of spending my time on a (not quite) 125cc than a similarly styled Chinese bike and is a lot more fun than the Van Van that I used at the training centre.
Edited by nunpuncher on Thursday 6th July 19:48
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