Denise Mobers LOL, well perhaps not a mile! Harleys are usually louder than many well designed 2-strokes. I have a Yamaha RD350 which is fairly loud, but nothing like a loud 'hog'!
Sounds like someone I know. He had the fastest built kawasaki H1 500 triple and he traded it for a 76 cb750f that he went on to build a 836 with that he still has. He's now has a rz350 too, definitely better bike then the old kawi widowmakers
Sucks our only choice with new street bikes are 4 strokes. I miss the days when you could build a monster 2 stroke with nothing but a dremel. Cheap to modify, fast as hell and sweet sounding.
Owned an RD400 back in the late 70s and that bike was scary fast. I bought an after market head w/dual coils and an expansion chamber and that bike could climb pine trees. I could not dump the clutch in any gear except for fourth gear, at speed. I went through two clutch packs in a six month period due to feathering said clutch to keep my front end down and steerable. Then came the KZ900 Kawasaki. What a four stroke wonder that bike was. Too much fun!!!
I feel his pain. Back in 76 I was riding a mild 900 Kaw. (at the strip) and got my lunch handed to me by a rather stock looking RD. Had chambers, wheelie bar, and struts. Could NOT believe it
My friends used to bug me to race my RD against a friends "96 cubic inch" bike (The type is obvious). So, one day as we were driving on one of the secondary highways out to a little town, we hit an intersection and then turned left (to the west). I let the group get a bit ahead of me, then passed them all on the back tire. There was no more talk about racing. :) He might have beat me on top end though. My pipes were so peaky that they made virtually no power outside the resonant band (6000-9000) and I hit 9 grand by like 180km/h. The one thing I liked most about a 2 stroke though is that they *feel* more powerful than they really are. If you roll into the throttle before it's "on the pipe", when you finally do hit the powerband, it kind of feels like getting rear ended by something doing 20 miles an hour faster than you. :P That "race" story though, my bike was nowhere near stock (But not as insane as this guys bike in the video). I didn't even have a speedo, just a tach and dual pyrometers. Spent months porting those jugs and optimizing them as best as I could, making sure the exhaust ports lined up perfectly with the pipes themselves (no offset edges to create turbulence), and jetted the damn thing as close to blowing up without actually doing so as I could.
Back in the 70's all I owned was 2 strokes. 175 Yamaha Enduro, 250 Suzuki Enduro, 350 Kawasaki twin, 750 Kawasaki Triple, and a Yamaha 350 RD. Nothing like a 2 stroke for gettin it done. Loved watching those Harley riders in the rear view mirror!
RD, RG, NSR, all quick bikes but fragile as fuck, in their favour was light weight, the noise and the smell of 2 stoke oil. MMMMMM. I have a GSX1400, with a full BOSS system, bigger injector bodies and a remapped ECU puts out 135bhp and 110 lbft of torque, 0-60 is 2.2 seconds standing 1/4 is 10 .6 sec. With a change of cams and a little more work with the ECU 165bhp is easy as well as 120lbft. Eats GSXR's, Bussas and even the hyper soprts BMW of the line to about the 100mph mark where their aero dynamics take over from my flying brick muscle bike. Grew up on KH's and RD's miss them for the noise, closest I get now is my old 84 KTM 495 crosser 120kg, 65bhp, a real hoot on road tyres.
Sold 2 LC's 10 yrs ago. Got an RG 250 now. Would love a ypvs lump to make a yammagamma but until I find one at a sensible price I'll stick with the Suzuki engine. I do have a tuned motor for it as well.
Damn I miss my old RD. It was a cheap bike that was faster than some of the 750 sport bikes... the only drawback is that it was hard to stop since there was no help from the engine.
That aspect actually got me in bad habits that nearly killed me one time riding a medium bore 4 stroke. I was used to being able to roll through gears and just snap the throttle shut anytime I wanted. One time, a friend let me ride his 600 he'd done some work too and I rolled through a few gears moseying around the back streets, then found a stretch of straight road and got er up to about redline in the top of 3rd and habit made me just snap the throttle closed. All of a sudden, there's this shudder, the handlebars shoot, the seat shook and I thought "Wtf just happened?". Then I realized, the back tire was hopping because it was doing like 1/4 of the speed the bike was doing. I rolled back into the throttle in time and got on top of it, but it was close. It had hopped out a good three to four inches to the side a few times before I came to my senses. Having said all this, that same guy scared the shit out of himself with MY bike too. I warned him "As you build RPM's, make SURE you roll almost all the way out of the throttle before you hit 6K. 5500 will barely hold road speed. 6K will snap the front wheel off the ground. Be careful". And of course, "Pffft, it's just a 350, I ride one liter bikes, this thing can't scare me". So, he's in second gear in the parking lot and he rolls all the way into the throttle... 2000 RPM, 3000, 4000, 5000, 5500, 5900... And, BAAAAM!!!! instantly from 6000 to 9000 RPM. The sand and dust (It was early summer so they hadn't swept the sand from winter off the parking lot yet) let the rear wheel break lose and since he'd rolled all the way into the throttle because he thought the power delivery was constant, once it hit the power band, the back tire just let go and stepped two feet out to the side instantly and it just revved until it hit the highest resonant point of the pipe. He never even left the lot. He just turned around, sat it on the side stand, got off and shakily walked back to his own bike. Good times. :)
That's got to be the fastest RD I've ever seen. Good lord. I wonder how much trouble he has with the clutch. Mine was nowhere near like this (no NOS, just 110LL av gas, well tuned piping, ported, head work, etc, and it was jetted so close to the margins I can't believe I didn't undome a piston) and I STILL had issues with the clutch letting go when it was on the pipe. If you were in the higher gears where it had a bit of time to see it visually, you could see the tach hit the start of the pipes at about 6K, rev almost instantly to nearly 9, then as the clutch got hot, it would grab, drop down to about 7, go through the gear and then do it all over again the next gear. I eventually had the whole pack replaced and race springs put in.
rsa mizo rider kan neih thrat hmasak ber pawl leh sul sutute ...1000cc i drag ngam hrim2 hi alo vahan pui takk launch a i chhuah khalh thy khi i skills a tarlang chiang hlee ee ..salute with your rd
Rode my brother in law’s RD a few times and had to get my weight over the bars to keep the front wheel down. Once it was in its powerband it was almost scary.
I will say this about Suzuki they need to kiss Kawasakis butt. Right before 2000 and the Suzuki craze. I remember the ZX11 was still the speed King then Honda came out with the CBR 1100 XX and then Cycle World or one of those magazines I remember them saying there was rumor of suzuki-kawasaki merging and right after that the gsxr srad Hayabusa came out obviously that merger never happened but I'm betting Suzuki got some advice from Kawasaki because I remember if you mentioned GSXR back then in the mid-nineties most sport bike riders thought their sport bikes but they were fat and heavy of the sport bikes
Don't forget the RD has been stripped down to just a frame almost, so it's shed a lot of weight. A tuned light 2 stroke will always beat a heavy powerful much bigger 4 stroke! Don't forget the slimmer frontal area of the RD compared to the suzuki gsxr and the power delivery of a 2 stroke is incredible! My first bike was a suzuki er50 2 stroke single, learnt a lot about engine tuning, just putting a tuned expansion pipe on it, made a huge difference! Had a suzuki gs650 katana 4 cylinder 4 stroke, nice bike, unusual styling for the time. Went to a yamaha 350 ypvs after that and it felt like a racing bike compared, totally different way to ride, very little low down power, all mid and top end. Went back in time and bought an older, very smokey RD400e 2 stroke twin air cooled, again stripped the engine, rebuilt from crank up, rebore, new pistons, performance reed valves, swarbrick expansion pipes, powerful little thing, very short wheelbase compared to the rd350ypvs and very light front end, meant it was a wheelie machine lol Everytime you opened it up the front wheel would lift off the ground! Much improved low down grunt but left a big hole in the mid range power, like fueling was off and then the power came back on like someone had hit a turbo button, then things just went crazy! Had big plans to drag race it but blew a hole in the piston, think it was running too lean or not quite enough 2 stroke oil? The pump had been set to deliver too much oil when I got it so it smoked badly, adjusted it to spec but maybe the pump wasn't delivering enough, hence why previous owner had increased the setting? Who knows? Holed piston makes a big mess, was looking at another engine rebuild and crank rebuild so lost interest, sold to a mate for spares or repairs! Then got a Honda CBX1000 incredible 6 cylinder 4 stroke, incredible low down grunt and smooth power delivery right up to the redline......insane acceleration for a heavy bike, it was 10 years old when I bought it but was mint a real head turner, by this time there were loads of suzuki rgv250 2 stroke v twins about, proper little pocket rockets, they would be all.over me in the bendy stuff but I would leave them on the straights then they just used to fly last me on the twisty stuff lol ⚠️😊😁
For all of the 4 stroke fans and 2 stroke naysayers, there's a Euro company making 500cc 2 stroke street/race bikes. The "mellow" phase 1 machine makes 207 bhp and hit a top speed (verified) at 204.56 mph, the phase 2 machine makes almost 6 horse more and weighs less than the ph. 1 bike. Any 500cc 4 strokes do that..., No? What about 600cc...., No? 900cc? 1000cc...., No? 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400..., still No? Granted there are some turbo 4 stroke 300 horse m/c's but, is that what it really takes?
I had an R5350, 1970 it did not have reed valves , that is the difference between the RD and R5 It was some kinda fast , stock then my shop teacher gave me The porting specs for the factory road racing R5 With JR sleeper expansion chambers , at 65mph you could roll the Throttle on and pull the front wheel off the ground.
Wow, I'd like to have seen that model! So did yours have those rotary valves instead then? Mine just has two sets of reed valves in a kind of wedge shaped mount.
@@robertpowers7856 ya the win of the gsx r was not visible to me at the first time But after two times watching the video I got to know that the gsxr actually won
I see there is somw question going on,the uploader is the Rider of this Rd,this is a quarter mile drag race and yeah RD won,i was there and hence proved.
I love rd and i ve had one too.... But only track ready rds can do tis.... Nd track ready rd s r not easily ridden.. Nd needs a lot f garage time nd money
Long long ago, I was driving my 57 Chevy down the 101 south of Ventura. Along came a Honda 750 4 banger. I thought: 'Oh, nice, and fast.' About 10 seconds later here comes a Kawasaki 750 triple just moseying along. I guess he didn't want to embarrass the Honda rider.
Dá-lhe RD350! Nem mesmo uma 1000cc é capaz de te vencer! Por isso é que essa pequena dois tempos é tão temida. Ainda vai ter gente falando que quatro tempos dura mais, é mais econômica, mas.....porque então insistem tanto em disputar com uma moto tão "pequena" não é mesmo?
@@jeferreira3074 aqui a briga é no tiro, e no tiro, essa pequena 347cc leva todas as grandes, eu sei que de final não dá, afinal, uma 600 tem o dobro de cilindros, quase o dobro de volume cúbico e mais que o dobro de potência. Não tem como não dizer que na arrancada, são imbatíveis, aliás, tenho um vídeo também deixando uma 4 cilindros de 750cc para trás, que filmei com minha Gopro, se quiser, procure em meu canal por "Não mexe com quem está quieto" ... ah ... você sabe qual foi a única motocicleta que venceu 10 vezes as 500 milhas de Interlagos? E qual foi a única pequena que venceu as 200 milhas de Indianápolis? 😁👍🚀
El RD puede ser de los 90` pero ese motor no tiene nada de viejo. Esta muy bien preparado. Las piezas internas son modernas y todo muy bien balanceado y calibrado, si hasta un tanque de nitro le mandó!!... Fijate algun suzuki enfierrado y andan en los 8 segundos. Y un buen piloto, Obvio
Proof that a good rider on a semi fast bike can smoke a squid on a really fast bike. RIDER is the biggest mod needed to make most faster, not expensive HP crap.
The comments are wishful thinking: While the Gixxer driver was asleep at the start and was handily beaten off the line, the big four-stroke caught up with and then passed the RD for the win! Don't believe me? Start this video @41sec and count the eight times the left lanes' victory light flashes on and off.
Nice vid.....EXCEPT; NO TIME, NO SPEED, No info of any kind. The 350 is a drag bike. It is nothing but a frame and engine. But, NEVER underestimate a Yamaha two stroke 350 twin. They won the Daytona 200 with this engine. It definitely hauls ass.....
I had a RD400E yamaha , my friend had a XS1100 . i could stay with her to about 60 . My problem was keeping the front tire on the ground . 3rd gear at 30 , roll on it would lift .
All you kids who never rode a two stroke street bike. Look up the rpm redline for a TZ 750 then look up the rpm redline for a new R6 . Then tell me how a black powder lever gun is better than an AR 15. I love those old bikes and those old guns. But they can't compete. Sorry cowboy kids
There is NOTHING like the sweet sound of a 2-stroke motorcycle!
Yep..you can hear one from miles away!
Denise Mobers LOL, well perhaps not a mile! Harleys are usually louder than many well designed 2-strokes. I have a Yamaha RD350 which is fairly loud, but nothing like a loud 'hog'!
Audio: I think that it's such a different sound. Much like Harley's, you can always tell a 2 stroke. Still, both are awesome bikes.
+AudiophileTubes AAAAAMEN brother, amen.
Definitely true
Had a 77 RD400 when I was 16. Bike was done up nice. Effortless wheelies, sweet sound. Traded it for a 78 CB750F which I still own. Great times
Sounds like someone I know. He had the fastest built kawasaki H1 500 triple and he traded it for a 76 cb750f that he went on to build a 836 with that he still has. He's now has a rz350 too, definitely better bike then the old kawi widowmakers
Sucks our only choice with new street bikes are 4 strokes. I miss the days when you could build a monster 2 stroke with nothing but a dremel. Cheap to modify, fast as hell and sweet sounding.
And light, much easier to flick back and forth in the twisties.
Retroman I wonder why weren't there any 2-stroke big block V8 muscle cars.
@@Smexy_af 😂
2 strokes are making a comeback 😀👍 even f1 are looking into 2 stroke engines. Check out the motorcycle press👍
Yep!. Remember the Suzuki RG500? Yamaha's RZ 350 and 500?, the Honda NS400? :)
Wow..mizoram.. awesome guys.. never thought RD could be modified like that.. RESPECT from Tamil Nadu..
RD won...Proud to be a RD owner...
Francis Peter wanna sell it to me ??
RD didn't won this race.
@@ApacheKXT Yes, you are right. The uploader is the RD350 rider, and he might not like to display the final result 😊
Rd might be faster but the kh are better looking lol
That RD has maximum weight reduction (only frame and the seat).
Owned an RD400 back in the late 70s and that bike was scary fast. I bought an after market head w/dual coils and an expansion chamber and that bike could climb pine trees. I could not dump the clutch in any gear except for fourth gear, at speed. I went through two clutch packs in a six month period due to feathering said clutch to keep my front end down and steerable. Then came the KZ900 Kawasaki. What a four stroke wonder that bike was. Too much fun!!!
I feel his pain. Back in 76 I was riding a mild 900 Kaw. (at the strip) and got my lunch handed to me by a rather stock looking RD. Had chambers, wheelie bar, and struts. Could NOT believe it
My friends used to bug me to race my RD against a friends "96 cubic inch" bike (The type is obvious). So, one day as we were driving on one of the secondary highways out to a little town, we hit an intersection and then turned left (to the west). I let the group get a bit ahead of me, then passed them all on the back tire. There was no more talk about racing. :) He might have beat me on top end though. My pipes were so peaky that they made virtually no power outside the resonant band (6000-9000) and I hit 9 grand by like 180km/h. The one thing I liked most about a 2 stroke though is that they *feel* more powerful than they really are. If you roll into the throttle before it's "on the pipe", when you finally do hit the powerband, it kind of feels like getting rear ended by something doing 20 miles an hour faster than you. :P That "race" story though, my bike was nowhere near stock (But not as insane as this guys bike in the video). I didn't even have a speedo, just a tach and dual pyrometers. Spent months porting those jugs and optimizing them as best as I could, making sure the exhaust ports lined up perfectly with the pipes themselves (no offset edges to create turbulence), and jetted the damn thing as close to blowing up without actually doing so as I could.
Back in the 70's all I owned was 2 strokes. 175 Yamaha Enduro, 250 Suzuki Enduro, 350 Kawasaki twin, 750 Kawasaki Triple, and a Yamaha 350 RD. Nothing like a 2 stroke for gettin it done. Loved watching those Harley riders in the rear view mirror!
awesome... now I want to convert my XS500 four stroke to a XS500 TWO stroke !
Ichiban Moto wow. Never believed you comment on this big fan of you sir. Badass..........
Its not possible,because a 4 stroke dont convert to a 2 stroke.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Don't under estimate the power of a 2stroke! Smoke them all!!
I like this comment,good guy.
Wasn't the power the guy on the gsxr don't know how to drag .
Don’t forget the nitro bottle attached to the bike!
@@highlanderfreelancer4553 The Gixxer won!
@@highlanderfreelancer4553 yeah the gsx was enough to smoke out that toy.
But the rider was a son of a bitch.
4 stroke best
0:46 words can't describe the happiness on his face..that Rd 350 is fast as hell..respect🙏❤️🔥🔥🔥
That was sweeeeet! Those little bikes are fast! Nobody believes it until they actually see one in action!
bottom line...2t always rules
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Yamaha 350 twin ? That little sucker was just the fastest in traffic conditions back in the 80 s. Awesome toy :)
I almost could smell that lovely 2 stroke watching that
If we had the two cycle motors today, there wouldn't be 1000cc bikes. An RD500 can smoke just about any production bike made for quickness.
+D. Paul Riderman
cr500, the original "Widow Maker" :D
RD, RG, NSR, all quick bikes but fragile as fuck, in their favour was light weight, the noise and the smell of 2 stoke oil. MMMMMM. I have a GSX1400, with a full BOSS system, bigger injector bodies and a remapped ECU puts out 135bhp and 110 lbft of torque, 0-60 is 2.2 seconds standing 1/4 is 10 .6 sec. With a change of cams and a little more work with the ECU 165bhp is easy as well as 120lbft. Eats GSXR's, Bussas and even the hyper soprts BMW of the line to about the 100mph mark where their aero dynamics take over from my flying brick muscle bike. Grew up on KH's and RD's miss them for the noise, closest I get now is my old 84 KTM 495 crosser 120kg, 65bhp, a real hoot on road tyres.
With emphasis on ''smoke'' ;)
As in smoke your ass with your four cylinder $20,000 bike.
+D. Paul Riderman I actually was referring to the smoke a 2 stroke typically generates. But thats fine too :P
I absolutely love this. I need to get my RD on the strip.
Nothing can beat that powerband of a 2T! Cheers
A co-worker let me ride his RD400 40 years ago.
He warned me: 'Don't goose it in 2nd gear!'
Small and VERY fast.
Had a RD350 LC back in the day. Can kick my ass for getting rid of it 😢
Marius van Niekerk .I know the feeling wish I still had mine and my mini Cooper .😭😭
Sold 2 LC's 10 yrs ago. Got an RG 250 now. Would love a ypvs lump to make a yammagamma but until I find one at a sensible price I'll stick with the Suzuki engine. I do have a tuned motor for it as well.
Me tooo.
Me too,then i got the rz 350 wish i still had both of them. Used to race against vr750's etc, they'd laugh until I beat them.
Damn I miss my old RD. It was a cheap bike that was faster than some of the 750 sport bikes... the only drawback is that it was hard to stop since there was no help from the engine.
💀💀💀
That aspect actually got me in bad habits that nearly killed me one time riding a medium bore 4 stroke. I was used to being able to roll through gears and just snap the throttle shut anytime I wanted. One time, a friend let me ride his 600 he'd done some work too and I rolled through a few gears moseying around the back streets, then found a stretch of straight road and got er up to about redline in the top of 3rd and habit made me just snap the throttle closed. All of a sudden, there's this shudder, the handlebars shoot, the seat shook and I thought "Wtf just happened?". Then I realized, the back tire was hopping because it was doing like 1/4 of the speed the bike was doing. I rolled back into the throttle in time and got on top of it, but it was close. It had hopped out a good three to four inches to the side a few times before I came to my senses. Having said all this, that same guy scared the shit out of himself with MY bike too. I warned him "As you build RPM's, make SURE you roll almost all the way out of the throttle before you hit 6K. 5500 will barely hold road speed. 6K will snap the front wheel off the ground. Be careful". And of course, "Pffft, it's just a 350, I ride one liter bikes, this thing can't scare me". So, he's in second gear in the parking lot and he rolls all the way into the throttle... 2000 RPM, 3000, 4000, 5000, 5500, 5900... And, BAAAAM!!!! instantly from 6000 to 9000 RPM. The sand and dust (It was early summer so they hadn't swept the sand from winter off the parking lot yet) let the rear wheel break lose and since he'd rolled all the way into the throttle because he thought the power delivery was constant, once it hit the power band, the back tire just let go and stepped two feet out to the side instantly and it just revved until it hit the highest resonant point of the pipe. He never even left the lot. He just turned around, sat it on the side stand, got off and shakily walked back to his own bike. Good times. :)
That's got to be the fastest RD I've ever seen. Good lord. I wonder how much trouble he has with the clutch. Mine was nowhere near like this (no NOS, just 110LL av gas, well tuned piping, ported, head work, etc, and it was jetted so close to the margins I can't believe I didn't undome a piston) and I STILL had issues with the clutch letting go when it was on the pipe. If you were in the higher gears where it had a bit of time to see it visually, you could see the tach hit the start of the pipes at about 6K, rev almost instantly to nearly 9, then as the clutch got hot, it would grab, drop down to about 7, go through the gear and then do it all over again the next gear. I eventually had the whole pack replaced and race springs put in.
I love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning.
rsa mizo rider kan neih thrat hmasak ber pawl leh sul sutute ...1000cc i drag ngam hrim2 hi alo vahan pui takk launch a i chhuah khalh thy khi i skills a tarlang chiang hlee ee ..salute with your rd
That made me happy the RD won!
I,m very happy for this guy,yes it,s a very good driver,and a good bike.Ilike the RD 350,last time i have one.Tkanks for your video.
Went to a drag strip 40 years almost and the quickest bike was a 750 triple 2 stroke.
Rode my brother in law’s RD a few times and had to get my weight over the bars to keep the front wheel down. Once it was in its powerband it was almost scary.
WHAT?the damm rd just smoke gixxer!!
Yes!!!
Es Saiful duh?
Yes good rider beat squid every time. So learn to ride well before spending tons on HP crap.
I will say this about Suzuki they need to kiss Kawasakis butt. Right before 2000 and the Suzuki craze. I remember the ZX11 was still the speed King then Honda came out with the CBR 1100 XX and then Cycle World or one of those magazines I remember them saying there was rumor of suzuki-kawasaki merging and right after that the gsxr srad Hayabusa came out obviously that merger never happened but I'm betting Suzuki got some advice from Kawasaki because I remember if you mentioned GSXR back then in the mid-nineties most sport bike riders thought their sport bikes but they were fat and heavy of the sport bikes
Don't forget the RD has been stripped down to just a frame almost, so it's shed a lot of weight.
A tuned light 2 stroke will always beat a heavy powerful much bigger 4 stroke!
Don't forget the slimmer frontal area of the RD compared to the suzuki gsxr and the power delivery of a 2 stroke is incredible!
My first bike was a suzuki er50 2 stroke single, learnt a lot about engine tuning, just putting a tuned expansion pipe on it, made a huge difference!
Had a suzuki gs650 katana 4 cylinder 4 stroke, nice bike, unusual styling for the time. Went to a yamaha 350 ypvs after that and it felt like a racing bike compared, totally different way to ride, very little low down power, all mid and top end. Went back in time and bought an older, very smokey RD400e 2 stroke twin air cooled, again stripped the engine, rebuilt from crank up, rebore, new pistons, performance reed valves, swarbrick expansion pipes, powerful little thing, very short wheelbase compared to the rd350ypvs and very light front end, meant it was a wheelie machine lol
Everytime you opened it up the front wheel would lift off the ground!
Much improved low down grunt but left a big hole in the mid range power, like fueling was off and then the power came back on like someone had hit a turbo button, then things just went crazy!
Had big plans to drag race it but blew a hole in the piston, think it was running too lean or not quite enough 2 stroke oil? The pump had been set to deliver too much oil when I got it so it smoked badly, adjusted it to spec but maybe the pump wasn't delivering enough, hence why previous owner had increased the setting?
Who knows? Holed piston makes a big mess, was looking at another engine rebuild and crank rebuild so lost interest, sold to a mate for spares or repairs!
Then got a Honda CBX1000 incredible 6 cylinder 4 stroke, incredible low down grunt and smooth power delivery right up to the redline......insane acceleration for a heavy bike, it was 10 years old when I bought it but was mint a real head turner, by this time there were loads of suzuki rgv250 2 stroke v twins about, proper little pocket rockets, they would be all.over me in the bendy stuff but I would leave them on the straights then they just used to fly last me on the twisty stuff lol ⚠️😊😁
I once had a rd200 that would fly!! 💥
Miss my old RD 200, had crackle pipes on , moved and sounded very nice for a 200 cc
yeah man but this one will definitely hyper jump
smell that 2 stroke gets me all the time
For all of the 4 stroke fans and 2 stroke naysayers, there's a Euro company making 500cc 2 stroke street/race bikes. The "mellow" phase 1 machine makes 207 bhp and hit a top speed (verified) at 204.56 mph, the phase 2 machine makes almost 6 horse more and weighs less than the ph. 1 bike. Any 500cc 4 strokes do that..., No? What about 600cc...., No? 900cc? 1000cc...., No? 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400..., still No? Granted there are some turbo 4 stroke 300 horse m/c's but, is that what it really takes?
R5, RD350, 2x RZ350...miss them all. RIP 2strokes (for America)
rd 350 always win
lalbiak dik
But I don't see who is winning...
@@Uiilo7509 Gxr overtake
@@elchapo5881 Yes.
@@Uiilo7509 I was there I saw it🤣
I had an R5350, 1970 it did not have reed valves , that is the difference between the RD and R5
It was some kinda fast , stock then my shop teacher gave me The porting specs for the factory road racing R5
With JR sleeper expansion chambers , at 65mph you could roll the Throttle on and pull the front wheel off the ground.
Wow, I'd like to have seen that model! So did yours have those rotary valves instead then? Mine just has two sets of reed valves in a kind of wedge shaped mount.
That RD went off like a rocket.
Very cool keep those rds loved there is nothing like them
Those rear shocks look pretty firm.
Oh yeah beautiful sounding two stroke,would love to see this guy on a tz350 powered drag bike
i still have 2 honda CR500 2 strokers...keep hoping ill find a cheap
rolling chopper chassis to do the 'honda davidson' conversion!
The RD 350 treed the hell out of him
seems no one else noticed that,
@@robertpowers7856 ya the win of the gsx r was not visible to me at the first time
But after two times watching the video I got to know that the gsxr actually won
I loved my '72' R5.
But lack off performance Pistons sucks on that year
The RD's were marvelous.
Yo Mizoram Good Stuff!👍✨ Love from Delhi.
Those little Red were such fun bikes
Smokey and they banned it 😥
Only natural. 4 strokes can be quick, but 2 strokes are mental!!!!!!!!!
I see there is somw question going on,the uploader is the Rider of this Rd,this is a quarter mile drag race and yeah RD won,i was there and hence proved.
I had a 1974 RD350. Boy was it quick off the light, but uncomfortable for a long trip. Brand new, $1000.00 out the door.
R u sale ur Rd 350
Samething for me,same year.
I bought a 1975 RD350 new in 1975 and paid $865 - Still own it STILL LOOKS AND RUNS WELL!
I owned an RD 350 bought new in 1973. Quick little scooter!
James Dunn same here Did 60000 Klm's on it before she popped. Cheers
I love rd and i ve had one too.... But only track ready rds can do tis.... Nd track ready rd s r not easily ridden.. Nd needs a lot f garage time nd money
Don’t mess with two stroke bikes😂🤣
Long long ago, I was driving my 57 Chevy down the 101 south of Ventura.
Along came a Honda 750 4 banger. I thought: 'Oh, nice, and fast.' About 10 seconds later here comes a Kawasaki 750 triple just moseying along.
I guess he didn't want to embarrass the Honda rider.
rd350😍😍😍
Holy cow he sat at the green all weekend
greg catanzaro i think the rd just had such a powerful pickup it left the gsx behind
Somebody was Sleeping on the Lights and It Looked Like a Mile Not Quarter 🤔
Thankz ..4 upload.
Eitaa RD hemm , esse motor e muito violento!!! Anda muito... Se o piloto tiver braço não tem 1100 q segura
Dá-lhe RD350! Nem mesmo uma 1000cc é capaz de te vencer! Por isso é que essa pequena dois tempos é tão temida. Ainda vai ter gente falando que quatro tempos dura mais, é mais econômica, mas.....porque então insistem tanto em disputar com uma moto tão "pequena" não é mesmo?
Temida por quem? Kkk tiro de 200mt até leva na pista a história é outra qql 600cc leva.
@@jeferreira3074 aqui a briga é no tiro, e no tiro, essa pequena 347cc leva todas as grandes, eu sei que de final não dá, afinal, uma 600 tem o dobro de cilindros, quase o dobro de volume cúbico e mais que o dobro de potência. Não tem como não dizer que na arrancada, são imbatíveis, aliás, tenho um vídeo também deixando uma 4 cilindros de 750cc para trás, que filmei com minha Gopro, se quiser, procure em meu canal por "Não mexe com quem está quieto" ... ah ... você sabe qual foi a única motocicleta que venceu 10 vezes as 500 milhas de Interlagos? E qual foi a única pequena que venceu as 200 milhas de Indianápolis? 😁👍🚀
rd350💚
El RD puede ser de los 90` pero ese motor no tiene nada de viejo. Esta muy bien preparado. Las piezas internas son modernas y todo muy bien balanceado y calibrado, si hasta un tanque de nitro le mandó!!... Fijate algun suzuki enfierrado y andan en los 8 segundos. Y un buen piloto, Obvio
that was totally awesome
I was thinking about an RD350 or RD400 as my first bike, but then I realized they're probably not a good idea for bike number one.
Rd350 is always king
Proof that a good rider on a semi fast bike can smoke a squid on a really fast bike. RIDER is the biggest mod needed to make most faster, not expensive HP crap.
Damnnnnn RD the king of 2 stroke 🔥🔥
The RDs rear shocks replaced with flat bar steel.
Que taponaso le pega jajaja
amazing little stroker,
Wow mizoram...
wow RD is like a rocket...
Rd 350 is a small bike,for the race its very good.
The comments are wishful thinking: While the Gixxer driver was asleep at the start and was handily beaten off the line, the big four-stroke caught up with and then passed the RD for the win! Don't believe me?
Start this video @41sec and count the eight times the left lanes' victory light flashes on and off.
If it's not smokin, it's broken
misleading title RD350 had NOS.
That was excellent
Gixxer wheel popped up two time.. means the rider not using full power at launch
RD 💪💪💪✊
2 stroke, WHY?? Because 4 Strokes are 2 strokes TOO MANY!!
I couldnt see what happened in the distance, but I just know the RD won )
I miss my RZ350
Great start, reckon big bike owner was asleep :-)
Nice vid.....EXCEPT; NO TIME, NO SPEED, No info of any kind. The 350 is a drag bike. It is nothing but a frame and engine. But, NEVER underestimate a Yamaha two stroke 350 twin. They won the Daytona 200 with this engine. It definitely hauls ass.....
I had a RD400E yamaha , my friend had a XS1100 . i could stay with her to about 60 . My problem was keeping the front tire on the ground . 3rd gear at 30 , roll on it would lift .
hi, chain sprocket of box 13 ? very good ....no?
best 2t very good
Rd the legend 🔥
Hayabusa will smoke the dirt bike in a quarter mile!!😎
Bro rd is 350cc engine
es rd 400 no 350 ypvs
Rd 350
RD. All day
full power rd350
Looked like 350 won first 100m while the other driver was asleep but then woke up and
overtook at the end .film from the side next time to be sure
RD YPVS I like to c more like this drag RACE
At the price of a rebuild every 30hrs
ate his lunch off the launch
Yamaha very good 👍👌💪
All you kids who never rode a two stroke street bike. Look up the rpm redline for a TZ 750 then look up the rpm redline for a new R6 . Then tell me how a black powder lever gun is better than an AR 15. I love those old bikes and those old guns. But they can't compete. Sorry cowboy kids
Ohhh mannnnnn!!!!!! 💥💥💥💥
2 stroke will smoke 4 strokes as usual. I had smoked r15 wid my rx 135. Lolol
Rocket hai bhai .. 😊
I love it. !!!
Holy crap what’s done to that thing?!