“A vintage race bike without fairings…but for the street.” This was the vision Jesse Crane (@crane_moto) had for the 1975 Yamaha RD350 café racer you see here. You might remember Jesse from his ’71 Yamaha […]
Tag: Yamaha RD350
For You, Old Fox: Yamaha RD350 Custom
Cus’Tom Motorcycles rebuilds his father’s RD… The Yamaha RD350 was one of the great giant-killers of the two-wheeled world, a two-stroke street machine with a race-bred bloodline. In AMA Class C racing, the RD racers […]
Hooligan’s Dream: Yamaha “RD375LC” Street Tracker
FLATTY: Vic Shield’s 375cc Two-Stroke Street Tracker… By the late 70s, Yamaha’s air-cooled RD250/400 two-stroke street bikes were due for an update. In order to galvanize the supersport class, Yamaha decided to go all-out, creating […]
Gulf Special: Yamaha RD350 YPVS F2 Café Racer
Bolt Motor Co. builds a stunning two-stroker… At its unveiling in 1982, the Yamaha RD350 YPVS — known as the RZ350 in North America — was called “the nearest thing to a road going racer […]
Ultimate Two-Stroke: 421cc NSR-D Project!
110-hp, 240-lb NSR-RD Hybrid… The Honda NSR250R remains one of the most legendary bikes of the 1990s, a street-legal two-stroke weapon built in the image of Honda’s 250cc Grand Prix racers. Along with the Suzuki […]
Two-Stroke Gold: Yamaha RD350 Café Racer
For Sale: “Goldhead” RD350 by Twin Line Motorcycles… The Yamaha RD350 remains one of the sweetest, most well-balanced two-strokes of the 1970s — and one of motorcycling’s great giant-killers, both on the track and the […]
Never Underestimate an RD: Yamaha RD350 Restomod
“Don’t let anyone work on your bike who wasn’t born before it was made.” That’s the motto of Charlie Medeiros of ForPlay Racing — a garage-based repair and restoration shop in Los Gatos, California, specializing […]
Free Smells: Yamaha RD350 Hillclimber
Introduced for the 1973 model year, the Yamaha RD350 was destined to become one of the most beloved and popular two-stroke sport motorcycles in history. For $900, you could bring home a 39-hp two-stroke reed-valve […]
Café Mod: Yamaha RD350B by Marthijn Kip
A 70s Café Smoker from the Netherlands… For many of us, at some point in our lives, motorcycles have been more than just a hobby, adventure, or even a profession — they’ve been a lifeline. […]
Build in Progress II: Yamaha RD350 Springer
Back in October, we published an update of an RD350 build-in-progress from one of our favorite builders, Wilco Lindner (@builtbywilcolindner) of the Netherlands — a young two-stroke aficionado whose Yamaha RD125 street tracker and dyno-tuned […]
