brian (n.ireland)

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brian (n.ireland)

brian (n.ireland) 
RD200 1975 said 2004-02-28 15:43 
 
a great little fun bike, a little giant killer in the true yamaha RD tradition, i bought mine new in Nov 75 as did two mates, out ran a lot of suzuki T250j (hustlers) which were still plentiful and fresh bikes then, it cornered like it was on rails thanks to the steering damper, better than the 250dx and the 400dx i owned next, althought these were fine on smooth bends, it reved out longer in each gear than the 200dx which followed it, and was 10mph faster than the 200dx, boys who raced in the 200cc road racing class in ireland only wanted the pre DX model to build on for that reason, one of my favourite "hoak´s" (street races) on my 200 was against a 400 kawasaki 4-stroke twin he waited and ambushed me as i left work at midnight, the yam was cold hit 4000rpm and spluttered, but i still held him of on the "lift", as he was two-up, as i warmed up i started to go better, i can still remember the kawasaki head lamp burning at my elbow for three miles untill i turned off, he went with a girl i worked with and had po-poed my stories of doing 90mph on my 200yamaha he apoligised and said that we both were doing 90mph that night, i always wished i had warmed the Rd200 first and given him a fit on the "take off" as the warm engine reved out to 10,000 rpm or so, a really fun little 2-stroke twin in its day, 
 
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