Is motorcycling allowed?

[lyslexic]

What ear plugs you using? 

 

I swapped from Alpines to cheap clicks ones (The blue with the three "ears") made a huge difference 

 

 

currently using the same ones from clicks.

[Andymann]

If you go onto the dedicated RD/LC forums they rip them apart. 

Aside from the colour scheme there is zero tie in to the original 350.

 

Personally I really dislike them, colours dont even suit the contours of the modern bike.

 

Oops there goes painting the TRX to look like a 350 YPVS.......

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

Oops there goes painting the TRX to look like a 350 YPVS.......

 

Probably look better in FZR1000 colours........

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Oops there goes painting the TRX to look like a 350 YPVS.......

just do it, man. The 350 crowd is likely very traditional and staid in their views. I think the bikes look good, and the paint job & style does remind me of the tree fiddies of old. Which is the point. 

 

Haters be haters, man.

[dirtypot]

If you go onto the dedicated RD/LC forums they rip them apart. 

Aside from the colour scheme there is zero tie in to the original 350.

 

Personally I really dislike them, colours dont even suit the contours of the modern bike.

 

I agree.  Love the bike, just not in those old colours.  

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

just do it, man. The 350 crowd is likely very traditional and staid in their views. I think the bikes look good, and the paint job & style does remind me of the tree fiddies of old. Which is the point. 

 

Haters be haters, man.

 

The only reason they are "cashing" in is on the back of the collector value of the tree fiddies, as you call them.

 

Otherwise why aren't they releasing an "eleven special" coloured version?

Don't mind being labelled a hater btw, its an opinion......

[Wannabe]

'Cause the Eleven Specials was mostly a single colour with pin striping.      BORING!!!!

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

The only reason they are "cashing" in is on the back of the collector value of the tree fiddies, as you call them.

 

Otherwise why aren't they releasing an "eleven special" coloured version?

Don't mind being labelled a hater btw, its an opinion......

you may not be a hater, you just don't like it. That's fine. But don't "rip it to pieces" if you just don't like it. THAT is a hater, and that's what I was alluding to. Fuckem. Who cares if some people wanna do an homage to the bikes of old with a few styling tweaks and a retro paint job? It's not as if it's the BMW mini that was a complete and utter abortion (despite being a GREAT car all by itself) when compared to the original. 

Edited November 12, 2019 by Captain Fastbastard Mayhem

[IceCreamMan]

Retro is big business as the average biker ages....just look at the plethora of retro models and each manufacturer caters to it.

 

Look at the Katana and the new Vstrom as an example, harks of the DR Big and the lil French man in the Dakar races.

 

These kits for the XSR are superb I reckon.

 

Yamaha should build new 2 smokes, the technology is there to get them to burn as cleanly as possible. The market is the problem in that they are unlikely to sell in large numbers.

Edited November 12, 2019 by IceCreamMan

[Wannabe]

I still would love to squeeze a fully worked 350LC motor into a new R3 chassis / body, with the Nitro Nori paint scheme. YUMMY YAMMY......

 

Edited November 12, 2019 by Wannabe

[Patchelicious]

I still would love to squeeze a fully worked 350LC motor into a new R3 chassis / body, with the Nitro Nori paint scheme. YUMMY YAMMY......

 

In the first R7 scheme ????????????

[Wannabe]

Yeah, like this:

 

http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz104/carbonar1/Bike%20Porn/Right-Angle-View.jpg

[dirtypot]

There was one of those parked outside a shop in Bergvliet which I used to see every for a while morning on my way to school.  IIRC it was only there while he was running it in, then it moved to the track.  
I feel lucky to have seen so much of it since a lot of people don't even know it exists.

[Patchelicious]

Yeah, like this:

 

http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz104/carbonar1/Bike%20Porn/Right-Angle-View.jpg

There used to be an old dude who tried to race one at Killarney many moons back. Always thought it was a waste, but hey he had a good time. Think he paid in the region of R350k for it then, this was 2000 odd

[Wannabe]

Still is / was a special piece of kit.

[dirtypot]

There used to be an old dude who tried to race one at Killarney many moons back. Always thought it was a waste, but hey he had a good time. Think he paid in the region of R350k for it then, this was 2000 odd

 

Undoubtedly the same one I'm talking about.