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Post by paulperth on Jan 10, 2015 11:36:59 GMT 1
They still look good 35 years after they were launched, just a timeless design
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Post by andy1814 on Jan 10, 2015 13:47:31 GMT 1
I bought my 1st 250LC when I was 16, it sat in my parents garage til I reached 17 then off I went L plate n all. My LC takes me back to those days, like a two stroking time travel machine, the smell of the bike when warmed up not just the two stroke transports me back intantly to that garage, the freedom the bike brought, not to mention it was and is so bloody special. Oh heady daze indeed!
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Post by bigkenx on Jan 10, 2015 18:18:47 GMT 1
bloody mint
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Post by seang14 on Jan 10, 2015 22:43:18 GMT 1
So if I go down to the Garage now n just sit on the LC i will be transported back in time to when I was 17? ?? I'm on ma way there now!!!!
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Post by Delbert on Jan 10, 2015 23:12:21 GMT 1
I can be relatively sensible on my modern diesel ,,, but the LC always manages to bring the 80s hooligan out in me !!!
my mates always say when we stop "you were having a lot of fun on that"
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Post by gringo on Jan 10, 2015 23:20:47 GMT 1
Right bike,right time, we all wanted/had one, bloody brilliant then, absolutely amazing now, timeless bike, what more could you ask say for !
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Post by JonW on Jan 11, 2015 1:08:20 GMT 1
We all have memories of when we first saw one and what trouble we got up to with them, but for me its the reality that they are also the kind of fun you can have without stupid horsepower and rigid frames of modern bikes that are way too competent for the road (read, the idiocy of other road users!). Riding a bike with a bendy frame, spindly forks, so-so brakes and a stepped powerband is enough excitement for anyone of any age, you dont need 180bhp and 200+mph really, many of us have been there and come back to 'our' LCs
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Post by botty on Jan 11, 2015 1:54:09 GMT 1
We all have memories of when we first saw one and what trouble we got up to with them, but for me its the reality that they are also the kind of fun you can have without stupid horsepower and rigid frames of modern bikes that are way too competent for the road (read, the idiocy of other road users!). Riding a bike with a bendy frame, spindly forks, so-so brakes and a stepped powerband is enough excitement for anyone of any age, you dont need 180bhp and 200+mph really, many of us have been there and come back to 'our' LCs +1. My Dad talked me out of a 250.Saying the market would drop out of them when the new 125 laws came in. So I had a 125, then a Mini 1275gt. I did have a rd 250c a short while after, and have never been without a bike since. Every bike I own now is 2 stroke. Kids today just do not know what they have missed.
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Post by sp885 on Jan 11, 2015 4:00:19 GMT 1
I have a 1977 FS1E-DX and a 1982 350 LC in my garage, they both take me back to my youth, to simple carefree happy days, I've had a couple of 4 strokes over the years, but you can't beat the good old 2 stroke
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Post by bigkenx on Jan 11, 2015 8:04:04 GMT 1
Rd's are like crack we are all hooked , my next door neighbour has to use castrol r in his strimmer to get his fix
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Post by stroka on Jan 17, 2015 19:49:07 GMT 1
I think its everything... the sound, the smell, the way they make power.. I had 2 boyhood dream bikes that I could possibly afford... the YPVS and a GSXR750H (slab sider) I ended up owning them both and the gixxer was a dog I regret selling the RD and im still looking for another one.. bikini fairing, white... loved it.. I t was capable of putting a smile on my face while riding in the pissing rain on a January night, no 4 stroke has ever had the same effect
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Post by m1ke on Jan 17, 2015 21:28:56 GMT 1
We all have memories of when we first saw one and what trouble we got up to with them, but for me its the reality that they are also the kind of fun you can have without stupid horsepower and rigid frames of modern bikes that are way too competent for the road (read, the idiocy of other road users!). Riding a bike with a bendy frame, spindly forks, so-so brakes and a stepped powerband is enough excitement for anyone of any age, you dont need 180bhp and 200+mph really, many of us have been there and come back to 'our' LCs I have never made it to the heights of proper modern technology, being 26 I probably should have... But my F2 was so much more fun than anything four stroke with triple the power.... Riding it on the road you could actually enjoy using it...
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Post by bigkenx on Jan 17, 2015 21:56:24 GMT 1
Very true lads , had loads of big bikes but the lc I can have so much fun without looking in mirrors or for the helicopters all the time like on big bikes when you get carried away
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Post by guiri on Jan 17, 2015 22:34:24 GMT 1
i first saw a rd125lc at age 14.. had to have one.. when turned 17 couldnt afford one straight away..had to settle for an ar125 for 6 months.. till i found one that need work for 400 quid(1986 bike in 1990) got 200 quid for the ar which id mullered to death.. i had more fun on the rd125lc mk2 than just about any other bike..period. tuned it to the hilt.eventualy sold it to buy a new dt125r....
i now use a rd350ypvs(had it for 13 years).. i recently had a rvf400..top bike.. but didnt produce the same stupid grin when i get home and get off the rd.. ive now got 10 rds... why..cause i can.. love them all. rd´s rule.
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Post by threefifty84 on Jan 21, 2015 22:05:23 GMT 1
I can still remember my first ride on a 350lc. November 1983. Couldn't believe how the power came in. Had to have one. So i did in Jan 1984, brand new 350 in black. Selling them off because the YPVS had come out.
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Post by reggieperrin on Jan 22, 2015 11:17:13 GMT 1
I'd been around bikes all my life. I'd apparently been breastfed in the grandstand at Brands Hatch whilst my Mother was timekeeping for my Uncle who raced. I'd been on the back of big bikes, CB750's, Z1300's even a Darmah 900... I had my first bike, a TS50ER, at 16 followed by a 125TS
But, 1987, with a fresh full license in hand, I took the walk up to Brian Leask's shop on the Gatwick straights and saw the YPVS N1 in the flesh for the first time. I had butterflies in my stomach as Brian wheeled it out of the line of bikes for me to sit on. "Take it for a ride" he said. Really? as easy as that...?
Now, the Gatwick straights are a national speed limit dual carriageway and this was my first personal taste of a fast road bike. On instruction to let it warm up I took it easy and bimbled along the first bit carefully.
Then, the rush as I opened the throttle properly for the first time and the needle swept round the dial...! I was hooked, never had twenty minutes been so much fun or passed so quickly, lap after lap of the straights grinning from ear to ear inside my budget BIEFFE lid...
I returned to the shop, signed the papers and arranged to collect the bike at the weekend. Totally smitten.
That's the feeling I get each time I take my N1 out for a ride, along roads that I rode my original bike on, to places that were so important to me at the time.
Nostalgia, it creeps up on you later in life and makes you grateful for the times you had...
Reg
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Post by gilly66 on Jan 22, 2015 12:31:51 GMT 1
Had a LC when I was 19 ,then I had about a 20 year break from bikes, eventually got back on a gsxr 600 but never really got on with it , got an LC back about 2 years ago and after a bit of expense got it running well and looking good and brings a smile to my face every time I get out , never to be parted again from an LC and could end up with another one soon
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Post by she169y on Jan 24, 2015 15:44:46 GMT 1
I can rememmber the first time I saw and heard a 350lc and I couldnt wait to own one. It took a couple of years and the time went painfully slow, but it was well worth it. The thing is , you can bring back all the visceral feelings, the smell the sound and the ride. But I can't get the not giving a shite about matching numbers and originality of finishes etc.back. I don't think I even checked the frame/engine nos. matched the log book! Why did we become so anal?
I wonder what the 18yr old youths of today will get nostalgic about when they get to 50yrs old?
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Post by Tobyjugs on Jan 25, 2015 1:00:37 GMT 1
I had an 18 year old taking my bike without permission. Difficult to police if your not at home. I ended up locking the bike up. So i think they still have the same effect with teenagers now as they did then. Ha Ha The only difference now is they are not so popular so the spotty yoofs don't Know what they are missing.
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