Motorcycle Sport

 Numbers aside, there is something wonderfully right about the Yamaha RD 250 LC which isnt surprising, since Yamaha has a heritage of sporting two-stroke Twins.The current mid-life crisis classic of choice, the 100mph Yamaha RD 250 LC was the hottest learner bike of the 1980s.We say: This one’s probably already sold. Tidy and largely original but not mint, the Yamaha RD 250 LC asking price is an utter bargain when others go for thrice that. Ideal base for further restoration, or just to ride and enjoy without worrying about it too much.

The speedy two-strokes created Yamaha RD 250 LC s performance image, and bikes developed from the same genetic strain as the Yamaha RD 250 LC still rule lightweight roadraces around the world.

And in most places around that world, Yamaha RD 250 LC never stopped selling two-strokes for the street. Air-cooled Twins became liquid-cooled Twins, but not in America, where emissions laws and infatuation with big-bore four-strokes made the sale of two-stroke street bikes a losing proposition.

So in the U.S., at least, Yamaha RD 250 LC  began losing its performance image. Yamaha, formerly the company specializing in roadracers, became more renowned for things like shaft drive, V-Twins and beginner bikes.

Each carburetor also has a small rubber pipe plumbed into its front end, and that connection marks the business end of the Yamaha RD 250 LC s Autolube oil-injection system. A small, crankshaft-driven pump under the righthand engine cover draws oil from the storage tank under the seat and, according to how far the throttle is opened, meters just the right amount of lubricant into the throttle bore of each carb via those little rubber hoses.

That mixes the oil with the fuel so it can lubricate the vital engine internals before being burned and routed out through the Yamaha RD 250 LC s exhaust system along with the spent fuel mixture.

Its a watercooled Yamaha RD 250 LC stroke twin with a factory output was 35hp and they came with a factory 6speed. This one has had the motor ported and polished, twin front rotors from an Yamaha RD 250 LC and from memory i think it has the carb off a Yamaha RD 250 LC .

Yesterday i sanded back the tank and soon we are going to paint all the fairings gloss black. It hasnt been started since 2000 so after my brother finished rebuilding his Yamaha RD 250 LC , he will re build the Yamaha RD 250 LC .

Yamaha RD 250 LC We have a compressor and a spray gun so im going to try and learn through experience how to spray and if all goes well it should look pretty sweet.Yamaha RD 250 LC At the expense of much whirring, performance was up on the old models, with somewhere over 85mph being possible if you had the time to spare.

Yamaha RD 250 LC Hopefully there arent too many dramas with rego, because the government are trying to phase out 2 strokes, and the exhausts are just 2 expansion chambers so they are very loud.

They loophole for registration is that in not long it will be classed as a classic so then we can get it regoed then if all else fails. All this has come about because i have started cruising the streets on a 2006 model Yamaha RD 250 LC trailbike (unable to be regoed) and have been sorta bitten by the bug

Which is all very well, but forty years on most of these early Japanese Yamaha RD 250 LC are so rare that finding one for sale is difficult. As a consequence of the way they were (ab)used, the survival rate is pretty low, and there were never that many to start with, in the UK, at least.

Yamaha RD 250 LC It’s also worth remembering that spares are just as tricky to find: a 1960s “rice burner”, as they used to be called in times, is therefore not a practical choice.Luckily the Yamaha RD 250 LC didnt have to last long before the all-new Yamaha RD 250 LC Dreams arrived in 1977. Using 3-valve per cylinder technology pioneered by the car division, the engines were ultra short-stroke 360 degree twins with balance shafts.