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1984 Yamaha Other on 2040-motos

US $3700
YearYear:1984 MileageMileage:13 ColorColor: yellow/black/white
Location:

Carlsbad, California, United States

Carlsbad, California, United States
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Yamaha Other tech info

Engine Size (cc)Engine Size (cc):421 WarrantyWarranty:Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty TypeType:Sport Bike For Sale ByFor Sale By:Private Seller

Yamaha Other description

Looking for a blistering fast liter bike toimpress your droopy-panted buddies and win the Saturday night stoplight GP?

Keep looking girls...

This here is the perfect starter bike for the idiot who lacks even the most modest shred of common sense.

Seriously now. Why be a complete sheep and ride a Gixxer/R1/CBR/ when you can be a rugged individual and ride what is simply the nosiest, smelliest and most irritating bikes on God's Green Earth.

Ride this thing much and it won't be green for long. Banned after 1985 and for damned good reason, this thing is like a two-wheeled Exxon Valdez, a Chernobyl disaster that you can ride, the poster child for the EPA and C.A.R.B. ,an environmental disaster that can pull wheelies all damned day long.

Want to piss off your neighbors? There is a very good chance they will form a lynch mob within a week. Why, I have had mild-mannered ladies in Priuses pull guns on me at stoplights, and Tesla drivers regularly try to run me off the road. Tough guys in F 3500 Diesels write angry letters to their congressman, begging to have me dragged off to prison for gross polluting.

Plenty of go-fast bits on this thing, but who cares? It's all about the noise and smoke. There is a very good chance you will want your money back once your mother finds out what you've done, so don't come to me whining that you weren't warned.

Makes next to no power until 8000 RPM, where all hell breaks loose and you will wish you were back home playing with your doll collection Beatrice.

421 cc Athena Kit

V Force 3 reeds and intakes

Mikuni Race Carbs

Toomey expansion chambers

Telefix fork brace, steering damper and full fairing

Penske remote reservoir rear monoshock

72 HP at the rear wheel, dyno sheet upon request




Moto blog

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Kevin Ash, one year on

Wed, 08 Jan 2014

I’ve lost dozens of friends in bike racing over the years, and while each death was a shock and incredibly sad, I’ve always had some kind of internal coping mechanism that allowed me to carry on relatively unaffected.  Maybe it’s because I was always extremely passionate and committed when taking part in my dangerous sport so was also prepared to pay the ultimate price should things go wrong.  Rightly or wrongly I’ve taken comfort from the fact that these unfortunate racers have checked out while doing something they love.   I’ve also lost a few journalist friends in bike accidents over the years but for some reason these have hit me harder.  The worst and possibly as it is the most recent is Kevin Ash who was killed last January while on a BMW launch in South Africa.  Starting in 2001, over a period of ten years, I was in Kevin’s company on countless new bike launches in pretty much every corner of the world.  At times he was cocky and occasionally irritating but always entertaining with a wicked sense of humour.  He was many things but no one can deny he was a brilliant journalist and his technical knowledge was second to none.  I always appreciated his complete enthusiasm to all things biking as he would ride through any weather on a daily basis to jobs or airports and seemed to always be tinkering with winter projects (mainly Ducatis) at home.  I also admired how much work he got through as he had columns in more than one weekly publication plus all his launch and web work. He was a competent safe rider who was certainly quick enough to evaluate any new bike thrown his way.  Kevin also drove a Porsche but then none of us are perfect!   I looked to Kevin as a wise Owl so not long after I started working with TWO/ Visordown, I asked him on an R1 launch in Australia he thought the motorcycle industry was currently in a good place.  His reply was, ‘we’ve just been flown here business class, been taken by speed boat to our five star hotel under Sydney Harbour Bridge, Yamaha have wined and dined us and furnished us with expensive gifts each day, what do you think Niall?  How times have changed.  On the subject on air travel he once told me, ‘when travelling business or first class it’s not about the pampering, comfy beds or fine dining, the important part is looking smug as you walk straight past all the people lining up at the cattle class check in! On more than one occasion I had food or drink spurt out when Kevin would deliver unexpected one line funnies at the dinner table.