Jim

'79 had a 120ph speedo... which really doesn't matter unless you're trying to stay period correct.

I loved my 400F. Yeah, didn't have an excess of power.... if you want to be kind about it, but the sound of that 4 into 1 at 10 grand...

3rd or 4th watch. One tornado warning (that one turned out to be "radar indicated" and never reached the ground). There's a few...

Storms all last night. Two shaking dogs sharing the bed kept me up all night. Throw 'em off, fall asleep and they'd sneak back up soon...

I can't find the pic now, but there was a Jug that flew down into the Rhine (Ruhr maybe?) River Valley where the Germans had strung...

The '73 RD350 had a very similar front to the XS2. Some bits might have even been swappable. It was the first bike I had with a disc...

...or sing like Kenny Roberts... :whistle:

Yeah, if they're LED lights, they won't work on AC. The old incandescent bulbs couldn't care less, LED's do.

Good point. I know '73 was the first year Yamaha put a disc on the RD350. So I'm pretty sure the '72 XS was the very first disc design...

If that thing's been garaged, I wouldn't be afraid of those tires at all. UV light is one of the biggest tire killers (burnouts...