My happiest memories of motorbiking was the day i bought my RDLC 250cc age 17. I always remember how reliable it was. It never let me down & always started 1st kick, no exceptions, I'm 58 now And those fond memories will never fade. i still enjoy these type of videos so i can see & hear the sound of that wonderful engine. A true classic

We all owe people like you a word of thanks for preserving our great motorcycling heritage , I had exactly same bike in 1981 , loved it , but as usual ...you move to a car , nowadays though most of us have both . Great video .

It's hard to describe how much fun we had on these, I even ended up racing one. You could scrap the pegs, wheelie, hit the ton, then turn up at a race track at the weekend and race it. Value for money? priceless

Oh the memories.Mine was in black on a w reg and like riding a rocket ship after my DT 125.Can smell the 2 stroke again.Great many Thanks.

The flat spot as you call it is simply the break point before you hit the power band, the later version of the engine included the power valve to iron this out, the 250 was a nice machine but the 350 was a much better option and they hold far more money than the 250 does second hand, I had the 350LC F2 fully faired on a D plate, it was a lovely bike and the same as the one that you rode on here on one of your other videos, thanks for sharing the video, would love to have seen a series of you restoring the bike.

Excellent vid. Thanks for taking the time to post.

Wish I’d bought half a dozen of these 14 years ago 💰

Awesome to see you have and RD250LC, I have one aswell. My uncle owned it for 32 years, now it's my turn. Great bike to ride, lots of fun!

Well that takes me back - I'm crying tears of nostalgia - not just over the bike but also the Notts roads I used to blast around in my youth. Thanks.

Absolutely stunning example, thanks for letting us see it.

Awesome bike, very nice resto. Thanks for the video!

Great video and a lovely little LC very much like my own,took me a while to get rid of the dreaded flat spot but an even better bike now its gone. Thanks for posting.

damn i love that bubbling sound

That takes me back. Unfortunately, I was too young to own one at the time, but I had the posters (cut up brochures) on my bedroom wall!

Looks absolutely stunning - great job!

Ah the good old days. I remember in 77 part exchanging my clapped out FS1E for a brand new Yam RD250E. Sign on the dotted line and get on with it. How did so many of us survive hey?

Bet you had so much fun making this video. Lovely looking bike

I had one of these in Summer 1980, I got a 350LC to replace it in 1981. I thought they were quite fast at the time ... until I got a Suzuki RG 500 in the 90s!

Stunning 2 stroke! loved the video!

I bought mine brand new in 1982 for £999. Recently spent £3000 restoring it to totally original condition including all period correct plating of parts. Best two stroke I have ever owned, even used it in long distance production racing after being tuned by Beeline racing at the time. With a mild tune to keep it reliable it was speed trapped at 117mph. It was too quick on the road in tuned form and I could never get it past third gear running on local roads when used as a commuter bike. I wouldn’t part with mine at all now. Very hard to find a decent one that’s totally original. Mine is Black with Mars Bar stripes. Even has the original alloy X reg number plate

This was my first ever bike. Beautiful 🥰🥰 I keep thinking about getting one to do up. Love it. 😎😎

Thinking of booking my CBT with you guys in the upcoming week!

A lovely wee bike, great restoration. I started with an SS50 Honda, then bought a secondhand CB250G5 and passed my test less than 3 weeks later. I never owned a two stroke bike until a few years ago when I bought an early model DT250, a 1972 DT3 Enduro, it's brilliant and it's so rare, I have only seen one other on the road. I also own a CB360, 1973, it reminds me of my 250, but with a bit more power. I love classic bikes and have nine at the moment, the newest bike is 1994.

Love the old 2 strokes and the lc's i had a old RD400E was very nice.

Great job on the restoration :-)

Indeed it is stunning……mine I had in 1981….I was 19…..my fourth bike in four years…..loved this bike….only gripe, drum rear brake………I reached 106mph…..stupid me…..that was before my nasty 30 mph accident…….drunk driver cut right across me, in Yately near Sandhurst……sad bad day for bike and me…….fantastic bike…mine was one of the powerful versions……very for a 250…great video..

Beautiful work 👍🇬🇧

Beautiful !!!

Damn,she looks as good as new...awesome job man.

My brother had one in 1982.great bike.

Had one from new in 81 was an X plate. Absolutely loved that bike, really wanted the 350 but as you said you could have the 250 on Ls. Keep looking for a decent second hand one but folks are asking stupid amounts for restored 350s. Looks like you did a great job.

Good job done properly x

Nice post Russ. Takes me back to 1979 when I had the Honda 250 Dream, which I passed my test on in1980. You either bought the Honda, the RD250 or the Kawasaki 250 triple. Cheered me up as a I tick off the months to reapply for my licence after a medical issue!

Nice restoration!

great restoration, probably better now than when it came out the factory.

Fantastic machine!

Well, this is a shocker, I am 57 now and this is exactly the same as my old one to look at so to speak, same colour! 17 then in 81-82, total idiot on the road when I look back or didn't look back at the time more like it! Also failed my test twice on it thank god, just before the 125 laws came in. Also, the biggest financial cock up I ever made was swapping it with an X7 Barry Sheen replica which turned out to be a pile of crap as I ended up landing a metre away from someone's greenhouse, in thankfully a pile of cabbages! Dad went berserk as he ended up finishing off the finance on the Yam, then a lot of money! I would be lying if I didn't admit this had just brought on the tears. An excellent video and the latest one! Oh and the other bizarre thing was I had an accident on this bike too. A bloke I had met for the first time 20 miles away in a house the day before, decided to pull out from a car park 500 yds away from my home and sent me over his car. As he knelt down to pick my bike up, I couldn't believe he was the same bloke I had met the day before, nor could he! The four wheels soon arrived and I believe to this day that I would have killed myself had I continued on two wheels! Once again however, a lovely bike to ride and special memories! As for the X7 crash, on second thoughts it was my fault, although it was rubbish handling compared to the LC.

Brings back memories.

That is Amazing! Loogs good enough to eat!!!!

Awesome 👍👍

Blimey only 6 months, that's great going for a full resto. Well done indeed.

350 lc a nice bike to ride and a lot of fun 500 ypvs was just mental Laughs but the power valve did not work well in the pouring rain

I owned a 78 air cooled RD250E. Love the power characteristics of the 2 stroke, docile upto about 6000rpm and then takes off like a scalded cat. Nice restoration, looks the biz

bloody lovely! I had a Yamaha 250 YDS7 in the late 70's, but always wanted a White/Blue RD250 LC when they appeared. Like a fool I never took my bike test, or would love a 250 LC :)

Looks absolutely stunning, Russ. I would have liked to have seen more detail on what you did to it, but all in all, it looks showroom floor new, at least from what I saw. Just a very nice job.

love the sound of it,

Looks right good fun.

Nice bike rode one of first in UK did have flat spot around 5k would actually 4 stroke like it was choked up Yamaha did mod with carbs if I remember right . Great bike in its day and still is really ahead of its time and styling to die for

One of my first bikes, though mine had the red trim. Lots of good memories.

great bikes

Nice restoration there were lots of these around back in day in oz, don't see any now makes you wonder how many are sitting in sheds waiting to be rescued. There is a restored 81 350LC for sale asking 10,900AU

A superb restoration. The last time I saw one in this condition was when a bloke in the same class at college got one of the very first ones of these in the UK. He placed his order and put down a hire purchase deposit before there were any actual bikes in the UK; just sales brochures at the dealers (most likely Fowlers of Bristol). p.s. What sort of MPG does it do ? I recall a magazine review in which they took an RD250LC to a track and got it down to under 30MPG. The rest of us Four Stroke riders were joking that the Liquid Cooling was actually the huge amount of petrol going through the engine.

Rrrrr, gnarly!

Magic Russ

Nice bike

My dad had a RD350 brand new when I was a kid . Then a Honda knight hawk .

Little beauty 💜💜

Takes me back to my days owning one, fantastic bikes. Unfortunately mine went where most went in the 80s (stolen)

Mint!

Salute you pro

Had a black one same year . Still miss it to this day .

I owned this bike 1991-1995.. I have to sell it bcause I need to buy a car..My Wife was pregnant. I removed my new Fuel Tank and still in my custody.. Swing Arm chromed..that makes she looked Gorgeous.. 😍😍😍

Had a Honda CB250RS at 17, passed my test 3 weeks after my birthday and had A Z1000 2 months later. My friend came off a SR250 Yamaha with a lot of leg injuries , the ward he was on in Tameside was all motorcycle accidents , lots of leg amputations , most of them had one thing in common ..... They were on RD250LC. In my eyes it was this model that finally forced a change in our learner Laws. Your looks spot on, well done. Thanks for sharing .🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍❤️👍

Good evening bro bike is workable

Bloody hell that bike looks like it left the factory last week

I have a few 2 strokes....this is gorgeous....👍👍👍

Holy shit my landlords just done one of these too. He had a yellow one and turned it white/blue like yours. His was really smokey after a minute of being kicked over, and stayed smokey for about 10 minutes then it settled down a bit.

I had a Yamaha 350 YR5, front tyre lasted forever as it was never on the road, always in the air.

great job, i bought a bike in 1980, i wanted the RD250, this was when you could drive on L plates, but i ended up with Yamaha XS250SE

Nice job on that restoration👍😎⚠️ I had the RD350LC YPVS with the bikini fairing and belly pan. I remember they were pretty gutless low to mid revs and then when it hit the powerband at around 6k it just took off, so you constantly had to keep the revs high, cost a lot more in fuel and 2 stroke oil to run than my 650 katana or cbx1000 Wish I'd kept all my bikes, they would be worth a small fortune now⚠️😲😊👍😎

I remember these bikes coming out. I had a Honda GL1000 'Wing at the time and some young punk (Yes, I do mean a genuine 1970's punk) pulled up alongside me at the traffic lights, revving the nuts off this LC. Last thing I recall was seeing his tail light as he left me standing...lol

I had the coffin tank rd 250 white with red mags. Still sounds the same beautiful memories and sound. Beautiful bike. I rembered you could go in a bike shop buy one these stick L plates on and go do 100mph crazy really. Suzuki had the 100mph x7 and also the 200cc x5.

Wonderful stuff. I spent 12 years on a two-stroke before hanging up my boots. 18 years later I had a few lessons on an SV650 and I was bitterly disappointed. It was like riding a tractor and compared to my two-stroke, it sounded like one. The connection between throttle, engine, brakes and rider was lost. I walked away dreaming of an lc350 or a kawa 2-stroke from the good old days.

Well done mate, I am restauring a 125 yamaha Tuff job isn't it ? 😀

nothing better than 80,s 2 stroke bikes for messing about on

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 i wish i have one rd350

Amazing. The ride took me back to the good ole days. I have a 350LC that's been sitting in the shed for 25 years with only 23,000KM. I'd like to do a complete rebuild like you did. Where can I get parts? Thank you.

Hallo..i like rd 250 ...👍

Nice restoration. What's up with the kickstart hitting the side panel? Couldn't help noticing the little sticker(?) on the right side panel. Love the LC, I only had air cooled versions back in my heyday.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be! I remember buying a new YDS7 (not far from you, in Loughborough) about 1972? Smelly, noisey and smokey thing that kept burning holes in pistons. Was fun, but afer I passed my test I bought a Commando.

when i past my test i have one that color

Nice bike What's she wroth now?

@4:30 CB125 T does more than that and it's a 4 stroke, but i'm guessing this bike goes a lot(lot) faster than 65

Cooooño por fin salió un RD 250, solamente nombran a los RD350..

i think 250cc is more realistic for learners .. as they have enough power to get you out of problems but not too much much power that you go nuts ..

Beautiful

what is part availability like for just the engine components? and what does it red line at out of curiosity?. lovely bike , amazing work cleaning it up.

It was rd 350 paint work?

Much more involving to ride than a modern bike I imagine, having to stay in the right gear for the right speed for the corners. Can you talk a bit about the brakes, I can imagine you have to plan equally as well compared to the modern stuff. What tyres do you run on it? You will regret it if you sell it.

God I wanted one........

What paint did you use for the exhausts/engine?

Closeups of the (post) restoration work please.

Omg. The warning sticker on the tank. I can't believe it.

Replacing the standard reeds with some fibre or carbon reeds will remove that little flat around 5k quite effectively

i found an RD350 ypvs last week, it had been in a garage since 2003. i paid a grand for it. =)

kick start is in the wrong position on the shaft

Greasley church

How much did it cost to restore

Something like this is still worth nothing in germany. I bought my Suzuki GSX400E from 1982 for 500€. (Thought I think two strokes are worth a pretty penny.)

Did you end up selling it pal