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Post by mholc123 on Nov 1, 2020 1:20:14 GMT 1
If you are an Old git like me, there should be another option, saying - I had an LC when they first came out, but along with all my mates(who owned LC's) it was stolen.
Although I'm on my fourth LC (but first hybrid), my first was a revelation after a string of air cooled RD's.
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Post by mouse on Nov 1, 2020 10:28:37 GMT 1
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Post by 2banger on Nov 1, 2020 10:35:17 GMT 1
There should be another option saying; after I sold my elsie I bought a proper bike vfr400 nc30 .
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Post by jon on Nov 1, 2020 10:45:53 GMT 1
reedpeteDoes an F2 count In your poll? If so I had one in 1989. Not what I’d strictly call an LC, but on topic I think? Jon
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Post by Dave B on Nov 1, 2020 11:09:19 GMT 1
If the question means "Did I have a watercooled Yamaha?" Then yes I did. It was my 80cc race bike, an 80LC with a YZ80 engine. If it means did I have a non-powervalve 250 or 350 twin, it's "No". I bought one after 2000. 80cc Race bike. |
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Post by reedpete on Nov 1, 2020 11:24:49 GMT 1
Yes, intention was to include all 250/350 bikes, so stick it in there !
Now the poll has started it’s not possible to edit the questions but in hindsight it would have been best to include the 90s as a category time frame. Same with sell/stole, there’s probably something that could have be done differently.
thoughts for other questions ...who has more than one? who has more than two , who has LC and ypvs Etc Etc .
Then other touchy questions...how many miles a year? 😂 ....that would be one I’d have a rather shameful answer...
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Post by veg on Nov 1, 2020 11:44:14 GMT 1
I’ve an idea for a separate poll, at least as controversial as the mileage one. Can’t remember if we’ve done it before though? Std vs non std.
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Post by smoke on Nov 2, 2020 12:44:16 GMT 1
Hi,
Had a tuned LC250 -81 with the Mel Lemoto tank and single seat. Then bought an -83 YPVS. Still got it with only 6000 miles on it.
Smoke
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Post by elsiefan on Nov 3, 2020 1:09:47 GMT 1
Had a YPVS (LC2 1983) in the early 80's, mostly standard apart from a steering damper and some two stage reeds, couldn't afford a set of spannys as I was a student at the time.
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Post by veg on Nov 3, 2020 10:25:04 GMT 1
Jeans and baseball boots exactly what I remember lid, leather, gloves and jeans 👍 |
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Post by shaunthe2nd on Nov 3, 2020 11:01:31 GMT 1
It's nice to see that there are so many who have kept their original LC. Wish I was in that category.
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Post by dougw on Nov 3, 2020 14:30:27 GMT 1
 IMBought new in 1983 , pictured having its first back tyre finished off, and it`s clutch burnt out. Bought with the compensation for being run over on the back of a mates bike and spending 6 months in plaster and 3 months in a caliper. Stolen in 1987 |
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Post by dougw on Nov 3, 2020 14:31:37 GMT 1
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Post by brads on Nov 3, 2020 17:02:17 GMT 1
Bought a 350LC (4LO) in 1986 from the original owner.....I still have it!!!!  |
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Post by Monochrome on Nov 3, 2020 21:10:24 GMT 1
Bought mine in '85, it was the only transport I had for ten years, then got a car. The LC went at the back of the garage and never moved for ten years. Then I spent around a year rebuilding it. It's done less than a thousand miles since then, but I keep it insured, taxed and MOTed. It's nice to know it's there if I get the urge.
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Post by veg on Nov 3, 2020 21:32:54 GMT 1
They used to be cheap thrills 😱
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Post by reedpete on Nov 3, 2020 21:43:17 GMT 1
They used to be cheap thrills 😱 Queue the violins and some old Yorkshireman saying....’when I were a lad’... could be alot a lot worse...think of the poor folks in the super dream owners club ! |
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Post by veg on Nov 3, 2020 21:45:49 GMT 1
Wet dreams and Derry boots 😁
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Post by spooch63 on Nov 3, 2020 22:13:16 GMT 1
350lc, Mars bar colours with Ace bars, Baja red foam grips and a set of Microns, reg num SHE 592Y. Bought it from Charlie Freemans in Eckington (near Sheffield) for £995. Part exchanged a Suzuki GP 100. Sold it to a 72 year old bloke a few years later who wanted something for weekend fun.
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Post by jon on Nov 4, 2020 19:56:08 GMT 1
Yes, intention was to include all 250/350 bikes, so stick it in there ! Now the poll has started it’s not possible to edit the questions but in hindsight it would have been best to include the 90s as a category time frame. Same with sell/stole, there’s probably something that could have be done differently. thoughts for other questions ...who has more than one? who has more than two , who has LC and ypvs Etc Etc . Then other touchy questions...how many miles a year? 😂 ....that would be one I’d have a rather shameful answer... Just realised on a 1WT vin plate, the model states ‘RD350LC’. Jon |
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Post by shell2tx on Nov 8, 2020 18:11:42 GMT 1
Well I had a dt lc MK1 then a 250lc bounty with chrome large can allspeeds and a chromed swinger then a blue f2 then a wrangler lc2 then a mars bar 350lc in the early 90s John.
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Post by rustywheels on Dec 2, 2020 10:02:18 GMT 1
Had a 125Lc mk1 as my first bike and then a triple stripe 350LC, which I sold for a GPZ. Funnily enough I came across the 350LC a couple of years after I sold it, and it had less miles on it  ! |
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Post by 1966baz on Dec 3, 2020 10:02:49 GMT 1
I had a DT 125lc in 1983 and a Rd 350YPVS F2 in 1987.  |
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Post by cgull on Dec 5, 2020 14:12:28 GMT 1
Only had a 125 LC, wish I still had it. Went straight to big fours after that
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Post by russie on Dec 5, 2020 17:57:14 GMT 1
Had a 250LC from 84 to 86, then it got stolen
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Post by stotty on Dec 6, 2020 10:58:45 GMT 1
I had so many 250 & 350 lc's in the 80s and 90s. Some 250s converted to 350s, i had an air cooled RD125 with a 200 engine in it, air-cooled 250 etc. Never had a 400 though...used to buy 350's for 350 quid they were so plentiful..bloody clocks fetch that now..crazy.
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Post by Norbo on Dec 7, 2020 10:07:16 GMT 1
My first lc was a MK2 125 when i was 17 then went on to a 250lc then built my red and black yammagamma and never didn't have an lc after that so ive always had them .
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Post by wonkywheel on Dec 7, 2020 21:51:59 GMT 1
MK2 125. Picked it up on the 1st August 87. Shortly afterwards came Allspeed, Hy-Tech Racing Reeds, 10W carb parts and gearbox sprocket  |
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Post by geoffb on Dec 11, 2020 20:34:55 GMT 1
I had two RD 350 LCs back in the 80s (as well as an air cooled RD125 and RD250) and I have had about 30 bikes in total to date. This year nostalgia got the better of me and I now have a Mars Bar 1981 350LC after 35 years. Big smiles and a 2-stroke passion rekindled   1980s Yamaha RD350LC by Geoffrey Butler, on Flickr |
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Post by pdxjim on Dec 11, 2020 22:58:53 GMT 1
Nope.
Bought a '75 RD350B in '95, got my TDR250 in '98, a TZR250 3XV in '06, and my LC in January 2019.
All but the RD350B are very rare grey market bikes here in the states.
I'd never even seen an LC before I went to look at the one I have now.
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