I owned a brand new 1973 RD 350 back in the day! Of all the bikes I ever owned it was one of my favorite! I had a 74 Kawasaki H2 triple back then too, another great bike but when it was hot it lost a lot of power (air cooled)!!
I recently purchased a 1973 RD 350 and I'm excited, it's in real good shape, I have it down to the frame and today I brought it down to get powered coated! I took off the cylinders to see what was under the hood, original pistons, that's good! I'm planning to put a CDI ignition in it, first over on the bore, chambers, new reed valves, new paint and misc. Is there any one out there that knows a good place to send my cylinders for boring or honing and porting, I want this engine to scream! Any suggestions for this project? Thanks Alan aborer@cfl.rr.com
When I was 16, my uncle sold me his 1978 RD400, he had removed the chrome pipes and replaced them with black pipes off a Yamaha RZ250. He also repainted the rims red in place of the black colour and sold it to me for $1000 NZ in almost new condition. This was in 1986, it was my first big bike and I still have fond memories of it. It went great and looked great, best thing about it was the powerband, all you had to do was wind out 1st then full throttle to 2nd and the front wheel would always lift off the ground, fun and/or scary if done during the wet (would spin for upto 30 metres, if you had the courage on the day!), great fun the old powerband RDs.
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