My mate Dez is restoring one. It came with the worst paint job you have ever seen :shock: and he wants to repaint as it as standard. However we can't find any pics and we are arguing about the stripe up the tank. Don't s'pose you guys can remember seeing any on your internet travels? It's a 1985 one. All the one's Ive found so far have had paint jobs and there's no acounting for the tastes of some people!! :shock:

Here ya go N...try this....

http://www.ifrance.com/rd-rz350lc/page1JF85.htm

It's a french based site but loads of info and pics, and if ya scroll down theres a piece about UK specs '85.

yep thats a good site and should help you out N 8)

Even though it's all in French.......it still appears to have a fair amount of useful info :wink:

Cheers for that guy's Dez will be pleased. But not as pleased as me coz I was right and he was wrong!!

do you like rd's N..? ever owned one?

NO Real Yam collection is complete without an RD in it 8) :wink:

indeed. a real piece of yamaha history! 8)

Yep my first proper bike was RD350LC. The proper one not the ypvs (in my opinion anyway). When I was 16 it was all I wanted in the world! When I turned 17 my dad tried to persuade to do my car test I wasn't having any of it so in the end he said "pass your car test and i'll buy you an LC" I think he thought that i'd forget about bikes! But I didn't!

Anyway he grudgingly helped me find one, which I kept standard for a little while. It wasn't long though til it went to Stan Stephens and had a stage 2 tune! I put hand made Pete Lomas pipes on it painted and polished it and loved it for 11 years when someone nicked it :cry:

I met my crew through the lc. They had a collection of 250's, 350's and 500's ( i always wanted a 500) It's also how I got my name Nutty Tart!

I Knew there was something else I liked about you! 8) .......Another Bonafied Yam Stroker Fanatic :tu 8)

Long Live RD :wink:

Lately I've been toying with the Idea of buying another but I'm worried that I've been spoilt by all the new technology that I've been riding in recent years and won't be able to appreciate the raw edges anymore!

That's where all that New Technology came from..............is those Raw Edges 8)

True... maybe I'll think about the 500 I always wanted. There's a guy comes in the shop who bought one to do up he's promised me a ride when it's done. I'm looking forward to that!

I would be too! :wink: ......RD's are the Muts Nuts 8)

not alot of machines can match the cool factor of rd500's 8)

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not alot of machines can match the cool factor of rd500's 8)

Especially if they look like this one, which is my current Fav :tu ......

That polished aluminum Spondon frame & swingarm are the Sh*t! 8)

Now that I like.

I'm defeniately gonna start saving my spare cash. All I need to do know is persuade my other half that one of his suzukis will be better of living in the garden!!

That's a given!!

Better still, put the Shitzuki in SOMEONE ELSE'S garden!!!

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Better still, put the Shitzuki in SOMEONE ELSE'S garden!!!

:rofl

Too Right there Bazz .....Outta Sight.....Outta Mind :wink:

Good idea! That way I won't have to fix it either!