RD 400 money pit

[@ralphcantrell3214]

"Money pit"...LOL!! My how times have changed! I grew up on RDs and Kawasaki Triples and made it through the 70s and 80s without ever paying over $500 for a string of nice, beautiful, capable, low-mileage, like-new motorcycles that were as fast as anything on the road at the time. Man, I miss 'em now. There is nothing quite like a highly-tuned two-stroke blowing smoke rings out the back of a set of chrome expansion chambers to get the adrenaline pumping. Considering the prices they command today, I wish I had kept every one of them too.

[@garydaniels1420]

Same here..not forgetting my X7...

[@peteshaw3102]

Superb sound, brings me back to my youth. Had a 1979 T reg RD250, same coffin shaped tank in red and white, loved it. Went to the 1979 British Grand Prix on it with my brother and some mates to watch the great Sheene, Roberts race but in the September of that year wrote it off. Unfortunately for me a mini gt 1275,drifted on to my side of the road and smashed into me and my girlfriend at the time. Putting us both in hospital, her with a broken leg and me with two broken wrists. Wish I could have kept it, thoroughly enjoyed my time while I did. Happy days. 😋

[@chal1957]

Don't forget Waynne Gardner another legend. Yeah had the same bike RD250E in Silver not sure of year but it was a W reg, till some twat in Leeds had it away.

[@vinm300]

Tasteful : that is exactly right. Some very nice touches, and nothing overdone.

[@Bassalicious]

woderfully tasteful build there, mate! Love how the bike shakes when you get on the throttle :)

[@downwardlymobile4957]

I was pillion on an RD400 back in 1982 and we crashed. I got concussion, torn spleen and punctured lung. Bought a GS550 with the compensation. RDs are ace!

[@vintagemotoseattle]

looks/sounds amazing. wish my RD400 sounded this good !

[@chal1957]

Just love the tone on tick over.

[@ericgeorge5483]

Those Air Cooled RD's are in my opinion the best looking bikes of all time.

[@kcactuscoolerk]

Beautiful job!Meanest Rd I've seen yet,Thankyou for posting this

[@satanssurfer5965]

Lovely, makes me wish I'd never sold mine.

[@topcat4759]

Like the wheel conversion. My cousin has an RD250C with 350 barrels and TZ carbs and allspeeds. Cannot beat a good 2 stroke. Like a prat switched to 4 strokes many years back but always had more fun on on my X7 and my mates 350 LC. Rare beasts these days and worth a lot more than when they were new.

[@anthonygbooth]

Fzr 400 I think. This one is long gone. Still got 2 strokes though. No four bangers in this garage.

[@topcat4759]

Who mentioned FZR400's. Your video is of an RD400 so don't know whether you have more than bike video on here which has confused matters. I have a mint 1989 FZR1000 Exup sat in the garage and have owned GPZ Kwaks and a ZX9R over the past 35 odd years but always enjoyed riding two strokes more. Live not far from the Micron factory so always had spannies Great bikes but hardly see on the roads these days.

[@anthonygbooth]

@@topcat4759 the wheel conversion. Wheels are Fzr

[@daltoaugustodepaulaaugusto8404]

Yamaha RD 400 a mais bonita que já vi Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@needparalegal]

LOL, I had an H2 Kawasaki. They are 2 strokes, they barely have any parts. I rebuilt the 3 cyl model in 4 hours for a cost of $200 in parts. A 4 cycle inline 4 is a money pit.

[@yamrz500]

Looks great sounds sweet love those Yamaha racing stripes we never get them in the U.S.A.!!

[@slabbyrider8665]

Weird given its Kenny Roberts scheme

[@tonymetcalfe5068]

Stunning 💗

[@anthonygbooth]

Long gone Tony

[@retroglam73]

looks and sounds great tony, bet you wish it was summer thought! cheers, Tony (Bridlad)

[@ocrlr]

sounds great.. what kinda pipes are those. love the deep throaty sound

[@chrishogg9235]

wow you're on lucky ................

[@mattcusson404]

what a Beaut. Look great but sounds even better.

[@brettsoutar8618]

one of the nicest ive seen

[@Svendus]

Yamaha makes beautiful bikes and my SR 400 1983 is still going strong

[@vishalp3083]

Well kept machine. Great😎

[@thatchersbastardchildmrsco5227]

Yep thats a fine ol aircooled

[@petegroover]

nice rd bro,less smoke than a 5 year old audi !

[@johnny.breborn622]

very nice 1 o my favs as a child

[@markchong2457]

Anthony, very cool RD. I want to set mine up like that can you tell me how you did it?Thanks

[@alan1340]

In my experience unless you are in the know restoration is always an expensive business. A money pit for sure. :)

[@dano7145]

How thrilled the neighbors must be!

[@anthonygbooth]

Ha ha. I’ve replaced it with louder 😂😂 2stroke of course 👌

[@madman97064]

sounds good

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Looks like you got the front fender off from an MT-07 ??

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

What about the performance of this bike ? Was it comparable to Kawa 400 or Suzuki 380 on the 1/4 mile ?

[@anthonygbooth]

Tuned by Mick Abbey, TSA exhausts. Dyno’d at 60 bhp 👌

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

@@anthonygbooth That must be exhilarating !

[@anthonygbooth]

@@INDIGOBLUE555 it was awesome 😎

[@chrostopheragius4516]

What pipes are those ?

[@tonyniggaful]

is your name Karl Pilkington?

[@Bandit19990]

Haha My brother owns one of these and when i seen the title i thought... yep

[@stevesedge4259]

is the bike for sale?

[@yalefail]

that's pretty delish. lol

[@90dfender]

sweet

[@AimlessMoto]

They're only a money pit if you don't keep them 100% stock.

[@stevenlangdon-griffiths293]

Beatification on wheels

[@vonSnook]

Nice throughty tone. (never heard before)so low). But the pistons are slapping something fearce. Saddddd

[@sdone7672]

What you on about? its air cooled.

[@mjodr]

Not piston slap. Sounds perfect.

[@harlandmandigo4521]

Its getting to much air

[@caroltenge5147]

blow the rods out of it. You loke that!!!!!

[@billywilliams8833]

Scrap!

[@rt2255]

Money pit? Buy a boat those are money pits. Good bike build can be fast and reliable for less than used toyota camry lol

[@billybarr7443]

That bike had a stolen engine i it

[@hodaka1000]

?

[@anthonygbooth]

What makes you say that?? Billy

[@dirtydogvideo]

bike looks killer!