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Post by pawl on Aug 15, 2013 16:35:30 GMT 1
forum has exceeded its attachment quota so cant post photo, i have got an rd350lc engine and frame numbers match as 4lo-2067** so its a 1982 i think. painted a horrible lime green but when i scrapped the green off i found the original colours and graphics. candy blue with twin gold and yellow stripes??? the yamaha on tank has a different font to normal and it says RD350 on side panels, i stratched away on tail and that is the same blue and yellow, the wheels are yellow so are the front disk centres. these graphics look original and fine so i can only assume they are correct for the bike, has anyone else seen this colour combination before??? i can send photos.
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Pawl
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Post by oldelsieboy on Aug 15, 2013 16:53:26 GMT 1
forum has exceeded its attachment quota so cant post photo, i have got an rd350lc engine and frame numbers match as 4lo-2067** so its a 1982 i think. painted a horrible lime green but when i scrapped the green off i found the original colours and graphics. candy blue with twin gold and yellow stripes??? the yamaha on tank has a different font to normal and it says RD350 on side panels, i stratched away on tail and that is the same blue and yellow, the wheels are yellow so are the front disk centres. these graphics look original and fine so i can only assume they are correct for the bike, has anyone else seen this colour combination before??? i can send photos. regards Pawl 1982 UK models were as below    OEB |
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Post by Roofmonster on Aug 15, 2013 16:57:02 GMT 1
Get yourself a photobucket account and put your photos up there. You can link them directly into your posts and they will appear. It wont use up the forum's attachment quota.
welcome to the forum pawl
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Post by bare on Aug 15, 2013 16:58:36 GMT 1
Black ones always look(ed) as Very Nice in the adverts. Not so much in real life though.
Blue version was never sold in Canada.. mercifully :-)
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Post by pawl on Aug 15, 2013 17:07:25 GMT 1
i have tried to attach and resize photos but forum still wont let me post, is there an email address i can send photos too as these graphics dont look aftermarket.
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Post by oldelsieboy on Aug 15, 2013 17:20:25 GMT 1
i have tried to attach and resize photos but forum still wont let me post, is there an email address i can send photos too as these graphics dont look aftermarket. Email to me I will post em pics@lclcub.co.ukOEB |
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Post by pawl on Aug 15, 2013 17:27:21 GMT 1
I have photobucket now how do i attach to this link please
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Pawl
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Post by Roofmonster on Aug 15, 2013 17:28:32 GMT 1
I like that advert of the white LC where it says the twin cylinder 2 stroke has "a remarkably even power curve"
No it doesn't - if it did, it wouldn't be as much fun!
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Post by pawl on Aug 15, 2013 17:34:03 GMT 1
have sent photos to pics@lcclub.co.uk
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Post by oldelsieboy on Aug 15, 2013 17:43:38 GMT 1
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Post by pawl on Aug 15, 2013 17:50:48 GMT 1
thanks for posting photos, these graphics have been hidden for a long time under that green paint and survived a good scrapping with a blade to find them, they are not raised and seem original. the yamaha and rd350 decals are different as well. if they arnt real yamaha ones am not fussed but has anyone seen anything like this before?
Regards
Pawl
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Post by flames on Aug 15, 2013 18:03:54 GMT 1
I haven't.and I don't understand why anybody would want to cover them with that gopping green colour!!!
the blue and yellow doesn't do anything for me,but I think I could of come up with a better colour to cover it with.
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Post by pawl on Aug 15, 2013 18:17:22 GMT 1
The yellows are two different tones and the wheels are yellow with the edges of the spokes clean of paint as well as edge of rims. do i restore as blue and yellow or as per yamaha brochure listed above?
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pawl
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Post by goodpw on Aug 15, 2013 18:28:36 GMT 1
Black ones always look(ed) as Very Nice in the adverts. Not so much in real life though. Blue version was never sold in Canada.. mercifully :-) No way...the Blue one is my fav |
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Post by copper99 on Aug 15, 2013 19:12:24 GMT 1
Wow, that was some surprise i bet...leave her as it is, that'll cause some head scratching at a meet!
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Post by pawl on Aug 15, 2013 20:00:47 GMT 1
Good call. ill keep on scatching. dont think i can live with the green though.
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Pawl
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Post by maisiebabe on Aug 15, 2013 22:29:17 GMT 1
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Post by stanlc7189 on Aug 16, 2013 1:09:22 GMT 1
Mine's a Candy blue '82 model. My first one in 1981 was a Mars bar. I was going to get this one re-sprayed for old times sake but I actually think I like the blue better and would probably have bought a blue one if they were available in 1981 anyway. Wasn't there a darkish red one too?
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Post by steve h on Aug 16, 2013 1:41:29 GMT 1
The yellows are two different tones and the wheels are yellow with the edges of the spokes clean of paint as well as edge of rims. do i restore as blue and yellow or as per yamaha brochure listed above? regards pawl I'm colour blind and like the beige Kenny Roberts colours. ( My clothing nowadays is mainly yellow) |
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Post by pawl on Aug 16, 2013 10:02:30 GMT 1
Does anyone have an email address for customer services at yamaha just to see if they ever made a sticker set like this? Someone may know something.
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Pawl
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Post by steve h on Aug 16, 2013 13:09:48 GMT 1
Does anyone have an email address for customer services at yamaha just to see if they ever made a sticker set like this? Someone may know something. Regards Pawl I'm sure I've seen this bike before (all the graphics are airbrushed on) Cannot for the life of me remember where. |
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Post by simon5264 on Aug 16, 2013 22:43:43 GMT 1
Defo not about when i was riding them way back in 1981-1990 I would suggest it maybe a race bike paint job.Many racers in the day took the OE look and put there take on it. I have also looked here www.rd350lc.net/index.htm and its not listed.I restored a candy blue one in 2000 and still my fav colour |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 23:53:14 GMT 1
I'd certainly lose the lime green... It made me puke a bit!
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Post by billy on Aug 18, 2013 3:57:19 GMT 1
Get yourself a photobucket account and put your photos up there. You can link them directly into your posts and they will appear. It wont use up the forum's attachment quota. welcome to the forum pawl I don't like photobucket. I used to have it, but one day I got an email from them, telling me that they wanted the right to sell (or give away, I can't remember exactly now) my information to "external services", or some bollox like that. I thought to myself "f**k no" and deleted the account. I'm sticking to imageshack now. I used to think photobucket was alot better. Years ago they were actually very good, the website was fairly quick and there was not alot of retarded spam-like sheise all over the website (and bare in mind, I've always used adblock, just imagine what it would be like without it!  ). Somewhere after 2010-2011-ish, it just went crappier and crappier, and when I got that message I mentioned above, it was like the final nail in the coffin. |
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Post by pawl on Aug 18, 2013 14:58:06 GMT 1
Its not an airbrush job definitely graphics, see how well rest of green comes off,
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Post by ulsta on Sept 11, 2013 0:58:15 GMT 1
Thats not a yamaha standard colour scheme. 1980 bikes where white with 2 stripes in red or blue. 1981 had the same whites and a black with 2 stripes in red.
1982 and the stripes went to 3 stripes, white and black colours. The candy blue was only sold in the uk in 1983 as a 250 colour scheme.
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). Somewhere after 2010-2011-ish, it just went crappier and crappier, and when I got that message I mentioned above, it was like the final nail in the coffin.