RZ/RD 350 & Misc. 2-Stroke Tech BBS

good point, and another thought, I'll cancel the hire car and ride it back to LA! :)

Jon, schedules permitting, want to meet up?? If so we can work it out by PM. Would be good to meet you, I'll buy you a pint!!

If we can make it work then sound like a plan, I will drop you a PM. :)

expat wrote:Jon, schedules permitting, want to meet up?? If so we can work it out by PM. Would be good to meet you, I'll buy you a pint!!

Only a pint?
That's a long way to travel for one beer.

Im pretty cheap to keep :D

You're welcome at this end of the woods too, then.

Thanks mate!

I finished rebuilding the forks tonight and got them installed. Took a couple of detail shots and stripped the front brake down. I have another small box of parts ready to take to powder coating.. I am leaving next week for a business trip so progress will slow down a bit.

did you refurb the switch gear or was it in good nick already?

two-stroke-brit wrote:did you refurb the switch gear or was it in good nick already?

Hi Mark!

I refurbed it. It was pretty decent in the first place but I wanted it to be close to perfect. I couldn't find any replacement switchgear decals which I would have needed to powder coat so I opted to mask and spray. They came out pretty good.
Information and restoration parts are pretty hard to find for these bikes, there were not a lot produced and a lot of them were raced and ultimately destroyed.
I am on with making the main fasteners and axles etc in stainless like I did with my RZ, current headache is finding decals in the correct shade of Red.
I suppose that's half of the fun right......??
I will let you know next time I am in Houston and hopefully we can meet up again.

Information and restoration parts are pretty hard to find for these bikes, there were not a lot produced and a lot of them were raced and ultimately destroyed.


HI Expat,

if help needed in finding parts or info just let me know! Still have an YSR (all stock) since a kid and at some point had few more. Didn´t kept many parts but can get my hands at almost anything for this bike.

Good luck with the project!

manuel

haka_pt wrote:Information and restoration parts are pretty hard to find for these bikes, there were not a lot produced and a lot of them were raced and ultimately destroyed.


HI Expat,

if help needed in finding parts or info just let me know! Still have an YSR (all stock) since a kid and at some point had few more. Didn´t kept many parts but can get my hands at almost anything for this bike.

Good luck with the project!

manuel

Thank you Manuel, I appreciate your offer and this embodies the true forum spirit! At present, I haven't got anything that I haven't been able to re-make, repair or work around but looking at parts lists, there are quite a lot of parts that are now discontinued. I was referring more to the items like thee switchgear decals which you only need when doing a restoration.
I am on the hunt for a decent Toomey exhaust if you know of one anywhere!
Thanks again for your offer!

Hi Expat,

concerning my offer no thanks needed, it's a way of "giving back" the help that I've also received in here... About the Toomey, there's a guy in a group in FB that has loads of parts for the ysr and he is in the US: look for the group "Yamaha YSR50 Trading and Sale", his name is Tim Wachowski (he might also have the decals that you want).

Keep us posted about the bike.

manuel

haka_pt wrote:Hi Expat,

concerning my offer no thanks needed, it's a way of "giving back" the help that I've also received in here... About the Toomey, there's a guy in a group in FB that has loads of parts for the ysr and he is in the US: look for the group "Yamaha YSR50 Trading and Sale", his name is Tim Wachowski (he might also have the decals that you want).

Keep us posted about the bike.

manuel

I follow that group and have spoken to Tim, he actually has a Toomey pipe but it is $300 plus shipping, I missed out on 2 a couple of weeks ago for $120 each. Tim is a good guy and I may still end up buying his if nothing shows up.

haka_pt wrote:Hi Expat,

concerning my offer no thanks needed, it's a way of "giving back" the help that I've also received in here... About the Toomey, there's a guy in a group in FB that has loads of parts for the ysr and he is in the US: look for the group "Yamaha YSR50 Trading and Sale", his name is Tim Wachowski (he might also have the decals that you want).

Keep us posted about the bike.

manuel

I follow that group and have spoken to Tim, he actually has a Toomey pipe but it is $300 plus shipping, I missed out on 2 a couple of weeks ago for $120 each. Tim is a good guy and I may still end up buying his if nothing shows up.