Brings back memories. Had the later RD350. Light weight and very quick. Had to be careful with the throttle in the lower gears to keep the front wheel on the road.
Like a Rocket launch when it hits 6 grand on the tacho . . . Well done Adler for the basic design . . . Well done Triumph for the styling . . Well done Yamaha for bringing it all together . . .
My favourite Yamaha colour scheme, purple and white, stunning, only for me having a 1973 Suzuki GT250K in candy apple 🍏 green, the first GTModel colour scheme, the candy apple red came out in July 1973 , my mate bought one and we had a blast together
If I remember it correctly the 3rd position was parking lights so you could leave on the road and it would have its lights on but no key in. I could be wrong
Think these were R5 in the States, YR5 here, same as the YDS7 250 was known in other markets as plain DS7. I had the 250 and a mate had the 350. They were a bloody revelation in performance - I hadn't passed my test back then and (in the 250 learner limit days) and you couldn't get much faster for a couple of hundred quid secondhand....
I was the proud owner of one of these $734.00 plus sales taxes from custom city in Long Beach, California, I had to borrow the money from my mom I was 17 and in the army
Lovely bike best colour had a few jap 2 strokes in the seventies finished off with 750 kettle wish I still had them worth a fortune had a couple of fs1es cannot believe how much they go for now great channel lads iam addicted 👍 😀
Brings back memories. Had the later RD350. Light weight and very quick. Had to be careful with the throttle in the lower gears to keep the front wheel on the road.
And a nice exhaust sound.
When you lads going to fill all those Pot Holes .Love the channel by the way ..
Lovely bike in the best colour, Mate had a CS5E 200 Electric in the same colour 👍
Like a Rocket launch when it hits 6 grand on the tacho . . . Well done Adler for the basic design . . . Well done Triumph for the styling . . Well done Yamaha for bringing it all together . . .
My favourite Yamaha colour scheme, purple and white, stunning, only for me having a 1973 Suzuki GT250K in candy apple 🍏 green, the first GTModel colour scheme, the candy apple red came out in July 1973 , my mate bought one and we had a blast together
An R5 was my daily for a while in the 1980's in So. California. Always looked forward to riding it!
Yamaha's original hooligan machine
If I remember it correctly the 3rd position was parking lights so you could leave on the road and it would have its lights on but no key in. I could be wrong
Beautiful bike and color!
Think these were R5 in the States, YR5 here, same as the YDS7 250 was known in other markets as plain DS7. I had the 250 and a mate had the 350. They were a bloody revelation in performance - I hadn't passed my test back then and (in the 250 learner limit days) and you couldn't get much faster for a couple of hundred quid secondhand....
I was the proud owner of one of these $734.00 plus sales taxes from custom city in Long Beach, California, I had to borrow the money from my mom I was 17 and in the army
YR5. RD350 without the reed valves.
Very nice
Smart bike
Most in the world called it Yamaha R5 but in the uk we knew it as the Yamaha YR5 with his smaller bro the Yamaha YDS7.
Lovely bike best colour had a few jap 2 strokes in the seventies finished off with 750 kettle wish I still had them worth a fortune had a couple of fs1es cannot believe how much they go for now great channel lads iam addicted 👍 😀
Uk naming
Yr5 350 pre rd350
Yds7 pre rd250
Cs3 pre rd200
As3 pre rd125
As far as i know the YR5 was a 347cc yamaha. I believe that is a R5A.
YR5 Was the 350cc
YDS7 Was the 250cc
Or you could have had a B40. Writing was on the wall
Neutral green ignition light not working, great bike thou, i have its little brother the yds7 250cc .
Nice....but £5,250 ? GTF