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Post by veg on Oct 28, 2020 11:14:34 GMT 1
My first 250 had only 7000 miles was standard bar gold wheels and swing arm (hammerite) and a Mel lemoto fairing 1987 I paid £300. Don't suppose you have an old picture of that knocking about, one that you could scan/post up? Interested in seeing the fairing you mentioned. Unfortunately I don’t, I only binned the fairing bracket 12-18 months ago I’d even tried giving it away for free on here but no one wanted it.
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Post by lc350pete on Oct 28, 2020 11:19:02 GMT 1
I’ve always had bikes but fourstrokes, I bought my 31K in 2001 for £400 it was a runner but needed a lot of work I rebuilt it and it’s been brilliant fun ever since I’ve just started another 31K project using an USA import frame with nova
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Post by richb on Oct 28, 2020 11:45:57 GMT 1
I had a 250LC on L-plates just before the 125 leaner bikes came, bought it off my dad bought a Honda CB100N to do my test on and just in case I did not pass my test, luckily passed first time. Then August 1st 1984 on my 19th birthday and also the day I came out of my Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship I purchased a brand new RD350YPVS 31K from Mead and Tomkins Motorcycles in Gloucester for £1,695 paid in cash. Still got the engine but in a RG250MK3 frame which I built in if memory serves me right 1988? may have been a year earlier. The old man was not happy about it as he said I was destroying 2 perfectly good bikes my response was no different than you building a Triton when you were my age. Looking back he was probably right if I still had the original 31k now probably worth 3-4 times what I paid for it and the RG similar now as prices for them has rocketed recently.
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Post by earthman on Oct 28, 2020 12:24:35 GMT 1
Don't suppose you have an old picture of that knocking about, one that you could scan/post up? Interested in seeing the fairing you mentioned. Unfortunately I don’t, I only binned the fairing bracket 12-18 months ago I’d even tried giving it away for free on here but no one wanted it. Ah that's a shame, on both accounts.
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Post by mak595 on Oct 28, 2020 14:08:01 GMT 1
Passed my test in 85 on a rd125 dx, then had a AC 250, put 350 barrels on it with a lovely bare alloy TZ tank and yellow fairing/single seat. That got written off by a bloody taxi so I bought a 350lc for £500. Sold it after 13 months to buy a gpz550 unitrak Here's a pic with my old man acting the goat 😁
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Post by copper99 on Oct 28, 2020 17:09:08 GMT 1
Mine in 85...crashed the hell out of it..Took Mike on here (kopite30) thru a hedge one night , he was on the back , with an already broken arm... .think I paid £600 for it then, was a minter until I got hold of it...You can see what I was thinking of next with the YPVS paddock jacket...ended up with a NS400 , as you do
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Post by markrd250lc on Oct 28, 2020 17:35:51 GMT 1
Got an RD80LC "new" from a breakers in Kingston on Thames(Coombe Bike Breakers), Roy Smiths in New Maldon had taken the front end off it to repair a another 80lc so i got the bike for £350, got a 2nd hand front end, had to register in Guildford C195SPF, traded it in at motorcycle city in Bedfont in August 1986 for a new RD350N1 (D138YLA), had that for about 2 years but kept getting banned, so sold it to get a 250LC which i had Lindermere tuned (Thames Ditton), about 4 years later fitted an YPVS motor to it plus other stuff sold in 1998 (RMU148Y) to Jack Lilly's and got a VF1000FF !! Mark
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Post by perazzi350 on Oct 28, 2020 20:22:52 GMT 1
Got first Lc 250 June 1980 from Searings in Colchester first one they got in, second one !987 Stephens tuned 250 Proddy racer Got a 2nd and 3rd at Snetterton 250/350 mixed ,bump start now have a job to Kickstart LOL
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Post by dono on Oct 28, 2020 21:53:08 GMT 1
Yes I had a blue and white 350lc after the original popes rusted I replaced with all speeds. Love that bike but if it was left for more than a few days it was a pig to start. Run like a dream otherwise with the exception of heavy rain. I had to stop on more than one occasion every month to spray the carbs with wd40 to get her going fir the rest of the trip home.
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Post by fabiostar on Oct 28, 2020 22:37:05 GMT 1
i suppose if its not just LCs but the RD family .in the 80s/early 90s i also had 2 aircooled 250s.. a E and a F. a spondon aircooled 200 race bike and a watercooled 200 spondon.
and a really strange reverse cylinder 200 yamasaki/tz 200 racer.
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Post by saigonmark on Oct 29, 2020 10:41:32 GMT 1
No option for owned from new in '81, fitted with genuine allspeeds, still financed on H.P, wrote it off with 1600 miles on the clock, so six weeks off work got the Mrs up the stick and it was down hill from there.....
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Post by oldelsieboy on Oct 29, 2020 11:25:13 GMT 1
Got an RD80LC "new" from a breakers in Kingston on Thames(Coombe Bike Breakers), Roy Smiths in New Maldon had taken the front end off it to repair a another 80lc so i got the bike for £350, got a 2nd hand front end, had to register in Guildford C195SPF, traded it in at motorcycle city in Bedfont in August 1986 for a new RD350N1 (D138YLA), had that for about 2 years but kept getting banned, so sold it to get a 250LC which i had Lindermere tuned (Thames Ditton), about 4 years later fitted an YPVS motor to it plus other stuff sold in 1998 (RMU148Y) to Jack Lilly's and got a VF1000FF !! Mark Was it Kingston Bike Breakers on the corner opposite the American Car Centre? OEB
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Post by julianboolean on Oct 29, 2020 12:52:15 GMT 1
Had 2 250LCs and a 350LC in the 80s, had an LC2 YPVS for most of the 90s which I was talked into selling by a friend who bought and didn't like it so sold it to someone else - which annoyed me as I'd have bought it back off him for what he paid me for it. B688MDX where are you now?
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Post by abar121 on Oct 29, 2020 13:10:31 GMT 1
After an AR50 then, AR125, I had an RG250 MK1 back in the 80s and used to tear around the Cotswolds on it, with mates on RDs.
I remember riding a mates Stan tuned LC. What a wobbly mess, but did it go! When it wasn't eating pistons.
I was going to build a Yammagamma, but then the RGV250 came out.
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Post by Dieseldog on Oct 29, 2020 13:19:40 GMT 1
Got one of the first batch (3 of) 250's that Armstrongs (Middlesbrough) were allocated. Was the first 250LC on the road in Stockton-on-Tees. White /Blue version - JAJ 946W. Ended up proddie racing it from mid 82 thro to end of 83 seasons. At one point held the 250cc proddie lap record (for 1 race )at (RAF) Ouston in Northumberland. Eventually went the journey - seem to remember my brother using it in a p/x deal with his TZ125 to purchase a Zeger 500 (ex- Geoff Johnson). I ended up buying an XZ550 Yam , which I had for about 18months before getting hold a 2nd hand 31K (A40 JDC) Believe this was taken at Snetterton - me leading this group - notice the Bell helmet from Yamaha SnettertonThe Zeger with me riding - top of Cadwell Mountian Top Of Mountain Cadwell
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Post by arrow on Oct 29, 2020 13:52:23 GMT 1
I had a brand new 350 lc in 82, GDM 106X and a second hand 250 lc in 87, D944 VBV
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Post by arrdy350 on Oct 29, 2020 15:12:10 GMT 1
I thought I would of been the only one to buy their first RD after the year 2000
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Post by peddrotzr on Oct 29, 2020 16:01:01 GMT 1
Got one of the first batch (3 of) 250's that Armstrongs (Middlesbrough) were allocated. Was the first 250LC on the road in Stockton-on-Tees. White /Blue version - JAJ 946W. Ended up proddie racing it from mid 82 thro to end of 83 seasons. At one point held the 250cc proddie lap record (for 1 race )at (RAF) Ouston in Northumberland. Eventually went the journey - seem to remember my brother using it in a p/x deal with his TZ125 to purchase a Zeger 500 (ex- Geoff Johnson). I ended up buying an XZ550 Yam , which I had for about 18months before getting hold a 2nd hand 31K (A40 JDC) Believe this was taken at Snetterton - me leading this group - notice the Bell helmet from Yamaha SnettertonThe Zeger with me riding - top of Cadwell Mountian Top Of Mountain CadwellFabulous The Good Old Days
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Post by mouse on Oct 29, 2020 17:29:19 GMT 1
Got an RD80LC "new" from a breakers in Kingston on Thames(Coombe Bike Breakers), Roy Smiths in New Maldon had taken the front end off it to repair a another 80lc so i got the bike for £350, got a 2nd hand front end, had to register in Guildford C195SPF, traded it in at motorcycle city in Bedfont in August 1986 for a new RD350N1 (D138YLA), had that for about 2 years but kept getting banned, so sold it to get a 250LC which i had Lindermere tuned (Thames Ditton), about 4 years later fitted an YPVS motor to it plus other stuff sold in 1998 (RMU148Y) to Jack Lilly's and got a VF1000FF !! Mark Was it Kingston Bike Breakers on the corner opposite the American Car Centre? OEB Christ! I remember that place, bought a set of new, small can Allspeeds there, £75.00!! That was for my blue and white 250lc, eventually morphed into a Stephens proddie tuned YPVS engine with Lomas pipes, Mel Lemoto fairing and ally tank with a Mead speed single seat, Ahhhhhh PLB 618W where are you now? Mouse
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Post by markrd250lc on Oct 29, 2020 17:56:56 GMT 1
Got an RD80LC "new" from a breakers in Kingston on Thames(Coombe Bike Breakers), Roy Smiths in New Maldon had taken the front end off it to repair a another 80lc so i got the bike for £350, got a 2nd hand front end, had to register in Guildford C195SPF, traded it in at motorcycle city in Bedfont in August 1986 for a new RD350N1 (D138YLA), had that for about 2 years but kept getting banned, so sold it to get a 250LC which i had Lindermere tuned (Thames Ditton), about 4 years later fitted an YPVS motor to it plus other stuff sold in 1998 (RMU148Y) to Jack Lilly's and got a VF1000FF !! Mark Was it Kingston Bike Breakers on the corner opposite the American Car Centre? OEB Yes it was, that was the guy that delivered it on the left, what a great pic, thats brought back some memory's
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Post by tipfinchy on Oct 29, 2020 19:02:42 GMT 1
i got a 1980 white with red stripes 350lc in 84 at the age of 18 , Stan Stephens tuned , allspeeds boost bottle boyesen reeds and quite a few polished bits it even had a red seat cover! the only things i remember doing to it was (besides riding it like a t**t) a small number plate and a belly pan , i hope to find the photos i have of it one day mart
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Post by jon on Oct 29, 2020 19:31:22 GMT 1
Not an LC as such, but I did own an F2 in 1989. Does that count?
Jon
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Post by bodger on Oct 29, 2020 21:19:55 GMT 1
Bought mine new in 1981 £1100 from D. C Cooks in Smallheath Birmingham on the never never had to get my dad to stand guarantor, really skint me out for 3 years was working as a milkman ( remember them ) for the co-op . Had a bad accident put me in intensive care, had to repair it with second hand bits as in those days I only had TPFT insurance cos after the hp payements that’s all I could afford (dickhead) you live and learn. Still got it 😁
Bodger.
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Post by steve63 on Oct 29, 2020 22:45:09 GMT 1
As many did back in the early 80's I sold a bigger bike to buy an LC. I sold my KH500 and bought a brand new 350LC in 1983 'X' reg for £1160. It was a revelation, best bike I had ever ridden. It rode it in all weathers, crashed, flipped, raced, crashed again, kicked over by a jealous ex Husband and then sold to fund another race bike this time a 31K. Raced that for a couple of seasons, put it back on the road and ended up going to Spain with the Mrs on it. A bit later when the 125 learner law came out I heard a whisper that some guy wanted rid of his 250 and wanted £240 for it. I bought that and put my old Stephens production barrels on it and it flew. Sold that one for some reason and ended up buying another in 1987 and putting a YPVS F1 engine in it. The engine was fitted and about a week later me and the Mrs went to Spain on that one as well. That one I still have although it's been off the road since about 1995 it's about to be slung back together.
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Post by steve63 on Oct 29, 2020 22:58:47 GMT 1
Bought mine new in 1981 £1100 from D. C Cooks in Smallheath Birmingham on the never never had to get my dad to stand guarantor, really skint me out for 3 years was working as a milkman ( remember them ) for the co-op . Had a bad accident put me in intensive care, had to repair it with second hand bits as in those days I only had TPFT insurance cos after the hp payements that’s all I could afford (dickhead) you live and learn. Still got it 😁 Bodger. Sounds familiar although I walked away but my mate had a full leg pot on for 12 weeks or something like that. I spent about £600 trying to make the bike as good as it was before the crash, then put it on the track, then sold it for only £450 to buy a 31k. I look back on some of those decisions and think; what a nob head The LC landed me in Louth Hospital for four days after a big high-side at Cadwell in 1984. Thirty five years, almost to the day, later I decided to celebrate that anniversary by visiting Cadwell's local hospital again (now Grimsby after Louth A&E shut) This time only for a few hours though. Who'd have thought that after all those years I'd still be doing the same sh@t?
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Post by mt on Oct 31, 2020 18:40:28 GMT 1
My first 250 had only 7000 miles was standard bar gold wheels and swing arm (hammerite) and a Mel lemoto fairing 1987 I paid £300. Don't suppose you have an old picture of that knocking about, one that you could scan/post up? Interested in seeing the fairing you mentioned. IMG_2127[3865] by Gary Woodward, on Flickr Amazing what you find on the interweb. Not seen one of these for many years. earthman.
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Post by veg on Oct 31, 2020 18:54:58 GMT 1
That’s the one and it had a bracket that used 2 u bolts (same as exhaust bolts) that went round the head stock awful bloody thing.
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Post by rich on Oct 31, 2020 22:23:44 GMT 1
I bought a brand new F2 in 1986 after passing my test. Kept it 2 years but had to sell it when I started driving.
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Post by Gitram on Nov 1, 2020 0:46:35 GMT 1
I got my first in 85 and sold it, the second I got in 89 and still have it.
marti
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Post by JonW on Nov 1, 2020 0:59:03 GMT 1
Don't suppose you have an old picture of that knocking about, one that you could scan/post up? Interested in seeing the fairing you mentioned. IMG_2127[3865] by Gary Woodward, on Flickr Amazing what you find on the interweb. Not seen one of these for many years. earthman. What a dogs breakfast of swoops and curves and straight lines that criss-cross all over the place. Its like the 1970's race bike and Thunderbird 2 had a baby... or something. I guess thats what 1980 was all about perhaps. Car body kits were all the rage back then too... nuff said. I reckon if one of us built one of those today and no one knew it was a 'back in the day' actual thing, it would be panned on here for being fugly for sure. Mel sold a few tho I guess, made a bit of cash. To be honest Ive yet to find a Mel Lemoto part that was well made. Most of what was sold was pretty back street made, tho that was what was normal back then, look at Raask etc. I bet their pipes were shocking and made the bike slower as well, no dyno tests back then etc. Anyway, quite how much weight this bodykit added to the poor LC is scary to think about, imagine a 250... The lil engine would be totally gutless pulling all that bolted one tat and that single disk is going to have to slow down even more kgs... scary and talk about going backwards with mods. FWIW in Aus we had an aftermarket fairing a bit like this one, its well known as junk that no one wants and you cant even give them away these days. I met up with a guy who had two in his spare room and didnt know what to do with them lol Here is one of the lower parts thats been on gumtree for a million years, the seller will be buried with this for sure:
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