Thanks, I did put a caption up about the red flag on the video, it said “problem up ahead bike broken down” I realise you probably just missed it, it was small writing and only on the screen for a few seconds🙂 They won’t let you carry on if there’s a bike broken down in the middle of the track 👍
Id take those pipes off, store them away with some WD-40 and covers to keep safe if you want to ride that a bit. Original pipes are SO hard to come by. Put a three into one on for now.
British folks are so funny they way they talk! Some Brits use the words "bits" a lot. In the states we'd just say "parts". I get a kick out of listening to them all. Also Aussies, Kiwis, S. Africans, Scots, Welsh and Irish. I'm entertained just listening to them. Let alone the story of the bike. I used to ride one my dad had and it might as well have been mine because I rode it all the time for two years. It was a blue 1976 model with an aftermarket Windjammer fairing (unfortunately). It was very good to ride except on winding roads, as it never handled very well. Very top heavy, which was exacerbated by the heavy fairing! It was like riding a laden wheelbarrow. On the straight interstate highways it was heaven though. Very interesting about the logbook!! In the states you only need to have a logbook for an airplane or a large transport truck. Or a "Lorry" in Brit speak. And that's only if you drive professionally for a living on long haul trips.
My first bike 48 years ago. We loved it and it never let us down even while driving more than 20 Alp passes and many month of travelling with a lot of luggage, tent and a pillion passenger.
An obviously well deserved trophy, congratulations. Oskar an I, we have just discovered your channel and we are looking forward to view all the videos in the next days and weeks coming. I've already learned a lot thanks to your outstanding mechanical expertise. We have begun to collect some old bikes a few years ago and make them fit and reliable for road trips again. Thank you so much for the good advice given in many of your restauration videos and keep up on making those videos. Greetings from Germany.
I had one of these back in the day, same colour. The wife and I used to get our shopping on it, used it in all weather snow, fog rain etc, had it custom sprayed, with a desert scene, then came off it when a dog ran in front of me in the rain. Sold it not long after that, as it put me off biking for a while. This brings back some wonderful memories of my youth, and the early years of my marriage. You have done an absolutely fantastic job of restoring this bike, well done and thanks for sharing!!
I have a picture with my father on the same motorcycle in 1978, in Brazil. This motorcycle was very rare here in the '70s. Only wealthy people had one, because during the military dictatorship, we couldn’t import motorcycles from other countries.
@@mcmechanic864 Thanks, I'm toying with getting an earlier one or a later one. Like you, I've just done a GT750 a while ago and fancy a smaller Two Stoke but I quite like the way Suzuki did things. Kettles are a lot easier to get parts for it appears.
Had a yds7. Front tls brake was as powerful as needed, until it overheated and sort of disappeared. Only happened once but I never forgot the scare...😅
1970s to me was when real bikes was made i remember the first time i saw a kawasaki s1 250 it was a moment of love the 2 stroke smoke smell of 2 stroke oil you had to be there, then i saw a z1900 he was doing a burnout i thought it was so cool then 1978 i bought my first bike a suzuki gt250 i felt like a million dollars tho i was only earning 20 pounds a week fuel was 60 pence a gallon .
I know what you mean. I myself bought a GT 250 in 1978. It was a 1975 GT 250 m Ram Air model in gold. Just great days tearing about with your mates on RD 250's and KH 250's. The 70's were a golden age for motorcycling.
Same as that m8, 1972, guy from Buckingham used to come over to Deanshanger, my stomping ground back then, on an original white '72 S1, fell in love ❤️. At 67 I've owned 14 triples, still have a '78 KH 500, pride and joy is as an early '71 S2 (in S1 white!). 👍
Well done matie, both of them are really nice bikes, personally I have an 80s four stroke yamaha outboard 9.9ae a classic (mechanical auto choke) on a 70s boat and a yamaha bass guitar some company ey
I had a gold GT250M Ram Air and about 10 years later i bought an old - ish 250A to restore. Before this i had a KTM comet Cross producing an arm stretching 3 BHP. Does anybody remember these ? Don't see any about today.
Interesting as I remember owning both of these models. The bit you missed was that the yamaha was actually 6 speed but 6th was blanked off on the Yds7/ RD models. The Yr5/ 350 models got all 6 gears. It was a very simple task to unblank 6th, you would then get 100mph from them.
I worked at Suzuki and Kawasaki dealers from 1967 through 1978, upper N.Y. state mostly. Never had a chance to ride a 250 Yamaha like yours but some earlier YDS-2 models. After the X-6 (T20 Suzuki 250), their newer versions felt quite "taught" compared to the older model. Still a nice ride and quick for a lightweight but still taught and restrained feeling.
When I was a teenager in the 70s, some guy gave me a broken GT250. I learned a lot about motorcycles fixing it. It had a broken jack shaft, which cost $12. But i learned about two strokes, aluminum, gaskets, what an impact driver was and how it worked, same with a torque wrench, etc. I stripped it down and repainted it and it was like new when i was done….well, spray paint new. I later became an engineer, and I am sure if i hadn’t happened upon that box of parts and dusty frame I probably would have been something different…who knows what.
Lovely old bikes, I had a second hand GT250B back in the day while my brother had an RD250E. The Yam was way better! Always liked the look of the YDS7 / YR5, they seem to live in the shadow of the later RDs, both then and now.
