Some interesting bikes here...

http://homepage3.nifty.com/batmotorint/

Japanese website with some jaw dropping examples of true Japanese
classics.

 

Can't enlarge any of the pix, and there's only one page of them
anyway....

 

Not if you click on the links in the blue bar

and I've found a page of non-Jap stuff too

http://homepage3.nifty.com/batmotorint/export.htm

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/batmotorint/1111/P3430.JPG

 

The Older Gentleman says...

http://homepage3.nifty.com/batmotorint/1111/t3495.JPG

Ngggggghhhhhhhh

 

Otter says...

My first litre bike was one of these

 

Otter says...

Helps if you post a url I suppose

http://homepage3.nifty.com/batmotorint/1111/T3389.JPG

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/batmotorint/1112/BE724.JPG

Class.

 

<chortle>

 

Ah! Coo, yeah, some nice stuff here. Nice 400/4.... Even a CB360!

Oh, WOW! A Z750 twin! I wants one of them.

And there's a Kawasaki racer that looks like it's a KH250, of all
things, Definitely not a 500 or 750.

 

Champ vaguely muttered something like ...

Awwwwww, that's sweeeet ..

We had a 250 Samurai once, many moons ago, before we got a KH ... It always
made me wonder why the steering damper knob never seemed to make much
difference, unless it was in as far and as tight as possible ..

 

oooh, shiny!

 

What model is that, Loz? I've never seen that shapped tank on an RD
before.

 

Pipe, slippers and moggy.

 

Paul - xxx vaguely muttered something like ...

http://homepage3.nifty.com/batmotorint/1111/22562.JPG

That one's the same KH as I had, though I didn't have the wider bars, small
indicators, K&N's or expansion chambers .. though I _did_ have a braided
front brake line .. and I fitted a steering damper to that one .. bottom
fork yoke mounted to top of frame ..

 

Champ says...

Japan and US/Canada got that styling, unfortunately we didn't. Over in
US and Canada they were called the F and G model. Our F was the normal
for us coffin tank shape with very minor changes over the E. Strangely,
the US models are a step ahead of ours in suffixes, and their E model
had a lovely coffin tank with a less square top where it met the seat,
much nicer than ours. Also US models didn't get electronic ignition
until the Daytona G model IIRC, whereas we got it on our 1978 E.

In the US the F and G were white with a wide red stripe/gold pinstripe
and called the Daytona. They had all this stupid butterfly arrangement
on the exhaust downpipes to get them through emmissions control. The
Canucks didn't get all that shit on theirs and they were just known as
the RD400F and G.

I really want a Canadian model RD400G, but they are as rare as rocking
horse shit and fetch a fortune over here, like 4 or 5 grand in mint
condition.

Mine's the Yamaha anorak neatly folded on the chair

 

Champ says...

Bad form etc..but


If anyone wants to know about US/Canadian model RDs they should be
looking here:

http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/smokeonthewater/

I know Haley personally as she stayed with me when she came over to
attend the UK RD owners club rally. She's a 100% 2-stroke nutter. You'll
find pics of my little RD collection in there too.

 

<snip more information than I ever need on RD400s>

Ta for that. It just looks odd to me, cos I'm so used to the 'coffin'
shape. To be honest, the tank has a bit of an XS400 look to it, and
thats' not a good thing

 

Champ says...

Disagree there, it's just about every UK RD lover's dream to own a
Daytona.

 

In

It's a German one though, I seem to recall they were restricted to 100hp

Snap crackle and pop

More fun than a bucket of frogs

Yes Z2 ... Japan and South Africa I think


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