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

Nice work!! The stock front brakes are awful. Replaced mine with Blue Dot R6 calipers. Gold dots work too.

Mk, Thank you for finding this. I have one last unmolested R1 shock in stock and have ordered this to try out. Race Tech has never come up with any rebuilding of the shock so I am going to try this. My R1 stock shock on the 2016 R1 60th Ann worked very well. It was sold to a collector last year. And...

Darrell, Thank you for picking this up for me. I am stalled out on this project bike at the moment. I was waiting on Race Tech to come up with a GV kit for this shock so I could have the shock internally shortened at the same time they installed gold valves. Good engineering! Since this post in 2016...

Shilo, I ordered the R6 bushings from Economy Cycle. Installed the lower bushing for now and will probably install the top ones. I drilled out the stock R1 bushing but it is thin. There are similar bronze bushings at Ace Hardware. Right now I am waiting on Race Tech to see if they can re-valve this ...

This shock slips in without swing-arm removal with the stock swing-arm or the Ken Brumm swing arm the shock is mounted to currently. You might want to wrap this shock spring lightly with something as the paint scratches easily. There are many new R1 shock on Ebay that look like it came right from th...

Alex, Thanks for bringing this up about aluminum welding and I know you are thinking about our safety!!! I hope you are right about this being T6. Last year when we were building this I was worried about this being T7075 which most T7 is not weldable. However T6 is welded every day. It is using the ...

Thanks! I already have new BT45's on the bike. Only a front 18" was available, a Bridgestone, no rear. I will need a wider rear wheel for anything else so far. Any suggestion? Ed

The only frame mod is the battery bracket just above the reservoir that is close. I bent the end of it up slightly but even without bending it there was no contact with the reservoir. I even put my finger between the two and pushed down on the bike slowly. I could feel the res move slightly. The bra...

Thanks for posting this!!!

It is nice to see you are close to a great museum. I want to make this trip also some day. It would be a week long photo shoot at least. So much history there..... When I visited Germany in January, we went to the Audi factory and museum in Ingolstadt. I was stunned by the motorcycles, and bicycles ...

Here is a photo from the Barber Museum that was in a Revzilla email today. Do you see a familiar bike in this photo? Has anyone seen this museum yet?

Smoker,

I am just reading about your accident! I hope you are back to riding again very soon. You have a great attitude. Eddie

Autolube and a tiny amount of oil in the gas tank to inhibit rust. Like 2 cap fulls is plenty. Smokeless synthetic.

The Yamaha shop manual shows conflicting information. On page 3-25 it says to install oil seals and bearings with the manufacturer marks outboard. Lips with light lithium grease. Then on 3-33 it says gen side should not touch the bearing and the clutch side "should connect the outer race of the...

Ruzty, You are right about the R6 shock. The extra length worked great for you and many others. I could not find a R6 shock that did not look hammered at the time I found these shocks. Now I have 2 different lengths to try. One problem is this bike only has a center stand only so the tire being clos...