1970's 55HP 2 Stroke RD350 Finally RUNS!! Pt. 6 

What do you think about the longer vids? Also the "you should get this" comments, Keep in mind Im not rich 😂

Always remember, when you use premix, always blip your throttle when you are down shifting (engine brake) as the bearings are being starved of oil as well as fuel when your slides are closed. I have had many Yamahas and Kawasakis with oil injection. I have never experienced or heard of an oil pump failure. I rode a 13 year old H1500 to Loudon, NH in 1983. I rode it back home. (This was the Loudon/Laconia Classic where the Honda V fours dominated the track.) I was forced to go over a jump and I didn't crash and the H1 didn't break. You don't have to bleed them. Run on premix until the oil gets through. JMO.

Oh yeah. Good job man! Those pipes sound soooo good. I own a modded rd400 with similar setup. Just such a hooligan bike for sure

I’m constantly impressed with everything this young man does. Kudos to you homie, God bless. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Nothing beats the sound of a multi cylinder 2 stroke 😉 well done and greetings from germany

That right there is a real cafe! I've done many CB400/450 builds but a peaky two stroke from the mid 70s is the only bike that really needs to have the clipons to keep the front wheel on the ground. Just awesome build, and I love the details you shared on the clutch and engine, that's what makes a bike worth keep riding for years to come! I'm looking forward for a ride vid! Cheers Vasily!

Sounds beautiful and crisp with that JL pipe. I love this build

Gotta love that two stroke twin sound!😍🔥 good job bro, i like the showoff edit at the end too👊🏻

Looks awesome! Sounds amazing, can’t wait for the first ride video!

I really enjoy longer vids with this kind of content: welding, processing (sometimes rewelding ), mechanical… great platform! Love your projects; ready to see the ‘busa run 😁😁🤙🏾

RD 350 was my first fast 2-stroke I’ve ridden in the ‘70’s…it have left a good impressive memory ever since ..👍🏼

I used to have a YDS7 and my mate got one of the first 250 LC’s that came out, he only had it for a week and wrote it off, he bought it back off the insurance company and got the 350 LC as he had passed his test. I bought the 250 off him, got the forks straightened and my neighbour worked at British Steel so he took my frame in and welded brackets in for the LC back suspension. It looked amazing and always drew crowds with people wondering what the hell it was lol. Handled fantastic as well 👍

I think that is the best sounding 2 stroke I have ever heard ! Must sound awesome in person!

Great job on this bike. Your builds always turn out so good running and looking.

Keep at it. You are engineering on the fly. It's coming out awesome. Also it's not a mistake it's a "revision". Most prints at machine shops and fabrication will have multiple "revs"

Absolutely stunning build, love how clean it look's

Killing it as always mate looks good. Remember hard sprung short travel rear geometry was the fashion in the 70s. Very appropriate in this build.

I think your coming along great, thanks for the work.

That's just beautiful,not even a single cloud of smoke on its first start. I took my Boxer Bajaj BM 150 apart and on its first start after putting it together...it really smoked though it ceased with time. My eyes are set on that Busa man, can't wait to see it up and running. Much appreciation from Kenya.

Only thing that is killing me is that the front light seems tilted to the right. But none the less your builds are always very entertaining and awesome to see being build by you! As is this bike. It looks very good.

This is such a beautiful build brother, great job.

Yesssssss !!! Amazing man !, can't wait to sée more content on this rd 350 , that is Gonna be so much fun to ride!!!

You have great vision man. I always share your videos on the Facebook motorized bicycle pages. Like 10 of them. Keep up the awesome work. Especially 2-strokes!! Thanks!

Great video, thanks for sharing all the hard work and fantastic results! Nice to see genuine talent

I always wanted to build something like this but with a done up banshee engine. Looks really awesome. Great job

That sounds absolutely beautiful bro, my favorite brand, thank you awesomely for helping keep the best internal combustion engines ever, a continuing development 😀

Love it, this thing came out amazing man

Man, that's some work of art. And the sound of them pipes, oooooh, two strokes sure strokes your backbone of the open hiways.

so clean, simple & nicely done. MAD PROPS to you and your skills.

That seat turned out awesome, its super clean an matches the rest of the bike, nice work 👍 And that sound really put a smile on your face😍

I have a 1979 Suzuki GS450 Cafe racer build that I'm close to completing. I thought about doing a mono-shock suspension, but currently I'm using the stock dual shock positions. For my taillight, used the LED strip brake/signal light combination with a slit cut into my seat hump to mount the light behind it.

Looking good!! My favorite build of yours. I also have a 75 RD250 that I’m currently building, which was 100% inspired by your build.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. You have excellent building technique, and that bike sounds amazing!

👌 I especially enjoyed this video. I had an R5 and a '76 RD400 back in the day. Bought the RD 400 new.

The new seat pan looks awesome. Beautiful bike.

Just wow! Looks great! Sounds amazing! 2 stroke for life!

Dang that’s pretty man, your videos have been popping up on my page here recently and their definitely good watches. Seen on another page that your down around the Chattanooga area, which made your videos even cooler as I live in Nashville. 👍✌️

You do amazing work my guy keep grinding 💯

Beautiful my friend, just the kinda bike I love , great looks , 2 stroke power. 👌

LONGER VIDEOS! MOAR MORE MORE! Love the build Vasily! There are some very easy techniques to age or patina aluminum you can find via `net search. I do a lot of patina work on copper and metal for my metal artwork- you likely have all the chemicals you need right at home for the process. The process is generally very easy and can take anywhere from a couple of hours to just a couple of days. Some metal artists will store metal outside in the elements but that can take a long time to achieve the results you're looking for. Keep up the great work!

Wow awesome build man! I really really like the way you did it up as a cafe racer, looks choice! Can’t believe this bike was rotting in the woods and look at it now 👍

I think that painting the aluminum piece of the seat white in combination with the front mudguard would look absolutely stunning

It sounds sick bro! Reminds me of riding RD 250's back in the 80's, in the UK. There was an outfit called B-Line, who used to tune our RD's up

Sounds Rowdy Brother! Gonna be a ripper. Take your time getting used to it and break it in right. It's gonna wanna wheelie when the power band comes on!

Awesome! Would be cool to patina that seat pan to match the tank. Looks amazing as is though. Great work.

What?? I built a 1972 350 R5 (the Rds predecessor) into a mild cafe and it was sooo good and so much fun. The sound was unreal. Very neat to see something similar.

Looks awesome, sounds awesome, it is awesome 😁👍 was a pleasure to watch

The new seat looks so good and I loved the ratchet strap idea to hold the shape while you tig’d it in place

It's looking like it's coming together nicely. Those pipes are gonna sing as it comes into the power band

Dude I love this bike. First of all it’s great to see someone your age actually DO… SOMETHING. Like anything at all besides stare at their phone. You actually used your hands, picked up tools, and manipulated objects around you. Bravo dude. When the folks my age pass away you’ll be one of the extremely few alive that will able to fix things and actually function and survive. But also, great bike man. Love the pipes. Don’t let anyone tell you those wheels aren’t just right for the build. Just do the build justice and spend the time tuning it just right even if you have to re-do the exhaust 5 times. So many RU-vid builders make an awesome looking ride, and then get it to where it “pretty much runs right most of the time” and then they call it done, because 99.9% of the viewers don’t know the difference, they’re just baffled by the fact that you own a welder. But it always seems like the builders always have some rpm range where it runs like crap or they don’t get the gearing right. This one deserves to go all the way sir.

on the clutch basket, weld washer and bend up tabs , or safety wire all of them together after drilling holes threw … kinda important and with your skills you need to address it … then with some .032 safety wire pull in tight / safety pliers… dude your awesome

The whole thing looks fantastic! I like all your builds but this one hits different...

Awesome build. 🔥 Sounds sick bro 🔥👍✌️

Brappp brapp brother, love those two strokes.

Friggen awesome! That’s a killer looking bike man! Love the 2-strokes!

You are brilliant my man and I love that build!

Great job man. That thing is sweet!

Great job on another sweet build. 👏

Your killing it bro.

Bike looks AWESOME.! Love the sound of the chambers.!

Cool! I had a rd 350,1975,ran consent 777 at the 1/8 Darlington dragstrip 👍

Great vids. I like the longer vids as well as short vids. Love the RD’s great 2 stroke from Yamaha. The rd 200 had electric start but my fave and I owned one was a 79 rd400f Daytona Special. Mine had spec 2 exhaust. Man what a fun bike to ride. Love the vids.

Really nice build! I love the old school two strokes! Kinda a sleeper to some people. Can never get enofe powerband 😁👍🏻 they do have a two stroke class at some drag strips you should definitely enter. I would be willing to bet your bike would smoke some big modern bikes. Thanks for sharing.🏍

Nice job,i owned a Beckett tuned RD400 back in the 80's,boy did it go.Make sure your rear tyre has been put on a very clean rim as my one slipped and tore the valve out!!!!! instant flat.

Hell ya man nice work! Sounds sick!

I love your enthusiasm!

Keep an eye on the lower shock mount. That's a high-load point. Excellent work!

The bike looks sick and sounds even more sick! Wow, I miss my 125cc 2-stroke now.. Thanks! :D

I find rechargeable electric scissors really good for cutting straight lines in rubber, leather etc. Really interesting Videos !!! I have a KTM RC390 and a Royal Enfield Cotinental GT, and Honda 125 with a cage on the back for my 2 dogs !!!! I'm 67 yrs old now so I do as little as possible fixing stuff but it's nice to watch someone else doing it !!! When you're working on machines you're concentrating so much you don't notice what you've been doing !!!! I find it's a great feeling when you fix something !!!! I like the fact that you weld to make it very strong, instead of a pretty weld !!!!

Kick a** content! Keep ‘em coming brother

I bet that thing runs phenomenal when you get it tuned with those reeds, ports, ignition and the light crankshaft. Hopefully those carburetors have vacuum ports so you can synchronize them. Twin two strokes run so much smoother when the carbs are perfectly synced. Bravo. I know that bike will be a pleasure to ride. Super light and peppy. One thing I like to do on old bikes is make adapter plates for modern sport bike brakes. You can buy the calipers and Masters used off eBay for super cheap. Usually, I use Yamaha R6R (not s) brakes from a 06+. Which are brembo. With a radial master cylinder off the same bike. I can usually find everything for under $150.

That looks absolutely awesome best build ive seen in a while

Wow, you actually (kick) start the engine Great job loving this build

Nice build love those old 2 strokes

Had an RD350 set up with clip- ons and rear-sets back in 1973, went for a "blap" up the highway, girlfriend, (now wife of 48 years), on the pillion, got followed by the local Highway Patrol back home, he was cool, just wanted to look at my "cafe racer" conversion.

Good job Vasily! Looks stunning 🥵

Amazing Job!!! i love 2 strokes, greetings from Argentina!

That's a great looking rd 👌 When you get tired of it I'll give it a good home. Great work 👏

What a cool project! 👍

You're great .. even your music is perfect. You're going places, young man.

Good work man! 👌 Something i learned when i was taught to tig weld was if you cut your rods in half its alot easier to control your dabs, thought I'd pass it on may help you out.

Sick Ass restomod!!! Excellent work Vasily.

It’s alive way to go bro 👍🏾👍🏾

Really nice job you did there sounds and looks great. 👍

Sounds phenomenal!

Lovely job.Well done.

In the 8th grade in 1965 it was cool to have a bike parked at school. The Yamaha 100 twin two stroke was bad ass to us kids. Then around 1969 we saw a Kawsaki 500 two stroke fly by while I was on my Yamaha 180 two stroke. It was a superbike to us at the time. Great memories.

Kickass bike mate, well done!

The pro pulse can mig aluminum. Love the 350, I run uni pods for filters and I like the cross over tube. Also do a plug chop once you get everything going.

Nice build . Love the rd350 sound so awesome. Add pipes = bad ass

Awesome build man🤘 the part about having to cut into the powder coat is why you should always wait to do and painting until all fab is done

That looks 🔥

I'm old school, racer from way back, your thumbnail, I know exactly what you got there and that is oh so sweet.

Nice clutch rebuild and upgrade well done young man 👍

Great job! I used to race one in the mid 70's with AFM tearing up the track against Honda 750's

Hello Vasily, I'm probably the same age as your father and I've own 6 different RDs, of various displacements. I currently own a 75 RD125, all original, Orange, 8/10 condition and a 76 RD400, all original, Green, 9.5/10 condition. Anyway, you are a sharp young guy. I've watched you since the start of this project. You have true, inborn mechanical talent. It's obvious while watching your videos. You've also taught me that an FZR1000 clutch will fit in an RD basket assembly. That is great info. Keep it up, keep learning and teaching Thanks for the great videos. Phil DeFazio Sacramento, California

It's the resonators and t5 tips!!!!! I know that sound in my sleep. Sounds so awesome 👌

Great job ! I followed the build when you converted a piston ported engine to a Reed-valved engine. Great job. ....and I loved the clutch job ! This is up for argument, and I stand corrected : I feel you should not remove the oil-injection pump, but leave it running at a fixed stroke to allow a little injection. The reason is that the oil is in the gasoline. If you release the throttle at high speed, just a little amount of fuel needed for idle speed is going through carbs. That means minimal oil.........minimal lubrication. If the oil injection pump is left, it will ensure there will be lubrication even at deceleration. Respect. Trinidad & Tobago. West Indies.

You have one of the funnest Hooligan bike's ever made. Had many over my lifetime.

Im not big on the cafe style bikes but this one makes me want one. Looks like alot of fun to ripp through town with.