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Second Hand Dream Bikes - Yamaha RD350LC, Honda RC30, Ducati 916SP used test
By James Whitham, Niall Mackenzie & Jon Urry on 13/04/2010 16:51:46
Whitham, Mackenzie and Urry spill the beans on owning the bike of your dreams, sometimes it’s Heaven and sometimes it’s Hell. RC30, RD350LC and 916SP revisited.
If ever a conversation is likely to spiral into a full-on argument between a bunch of riders it is the old question: ‘what’s in your dream garage?’ It’s the perfect wet Sunday-in-a-pub-topic-of-debate that will rage on like an out-of-control forest fire well into the middle of th...
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Bike Icon: Yamaha RD350LC YPVS
By Stuart Barker on 17/09/2010 15:54:23
Thrumming through the early Eighties gloom, Yamaha's Powervalve inspired young bikers and future racers alike
't until 1981 that the first liquid-cooled RD appeared and the legend really began. Punters were getting slightly jaded with the idea of simple air-cooled two-strokes so the water-cooled RD injected some new life into an ageing class. The monoshock RD350LC
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Bike Icon: Yamaha RD400
By Stuart Barker on 26/10/2010 17:23:27
Post RD350 and pre RD350LC there was the RD400. Cool doesn't even come close
the streets of Britain on the bike which paved the way for the epoch-defining RD350LC of the early 1980s.But things weren't all rosy; the RD400 also had its fair share of problems. While the bike's rapid fire acceleration was legendary, riders faced a problem
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Jamie Whitham Column - Dec 2002
By Jamie Whitham on 01/12/2002 12:17:31
An insight into the non-stop world of Whit. Don't mention his RD350LC
, Huddersfield.' Turns out this bloke was a fellow LC nutter and he'd read a story somewhere about my RD350LC. He saw in the picture that I didn't have the brake caliper bleed nipple dust covers and had sent a couple to me. What a star! Andy Thorpe, if you're out
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The 12 motorcycles that matter
By Visordown on 22/11/2011 12:35:55
We wouldn't be where we are today without these twelve bikes that changed history and in doing so, reached the coveted status of icon
Honda RC30Handbuilt in Japan by HRC and available to Fogarty, Hislop and Joe Bloggs, the RC30 was, and is, a little bit special. Read about the Honda VFR750R here.Yamaha RD350LC YPVSThrumming through the early Eighties gloom, Yamaha's Powervalve RD
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Niall Mackenzie Column - Mar 2007
By Niall Mackenzie on 01/03/2007 11:09:15
Bike racing's going one-make mad, and that's a good thing. Meanwhile, headmaster Mackenzie intends to rule the class of 2007 with a rod of iron. No talking at the back
blagging my way onto an official practice day I was chosen by a panel of experts to battle it out with established stars aboard the newly launched Yamaha RD350LC. With the races televised on ITV's World of Sport, a gang of us were thrust into the limelight
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Yamaha Pro Am madness, the best one make championship ever?
By Niall Mackenzie on 18/12/2010 10:57:40
I’m biased of course, but the best one make road race championship has to be the Yamaha RD 350LC Pro Am series. Back in the days when manufacturers had spare cash (1980 to be precise), Mitsui Yamaha organised this televised championship at major
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Discuss: The 999 will be a future classic
By Jon Urry on 18/02/2009 10:31:00
Today's unloved 999 superbike is tomorrow's enthusiasts' gold
impact when it was launched. Yamaha's RD350LC shaped a generation of two-stroke fans, Honda's FireBlade showed what a sub-litre sportsbike should be and Ducati's own 916 made jaws drop the world over on looks alone. And it performed on track
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Niall Mackenzie Column - Nov 2006
By niall mackenzie on 01/11/2006 19:00:29
What's the spark that ignites brand loyalty, wonders Niall Mackenzie. Is it the look, the ride, the reputation? If you could bottle it, you could sell it
however as they also decided to be good to me by producing the RD350LC, which literally changed my life. That's not to say I think every Yamaha is perfect, as I dislike any model that has 'XS' or 'TDM' on a sidepanel, so I choose to blot them from my mind
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Who the Hell is Niall Mackenzie?
By Stuart Barker on 02/08/2010 11:29:31
Niall went from digging holes for the council to being Freddie Spencer’s team mate in five years. In his GP career he scored seven podiums and 28 top-fives. And after 10 years in Grand Prix he returned to the UK and won three consecutive BSB titles
step-thru. Chasing older friends on faster Suzuki AP50s was good early training but he soon upgraded to a Yamaha FS-1E.In 1980, the young Scot bought the bike that would change his life – Yamaha's new RD350LC. When the Scottish ACU announced it would
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