For Sale

Yamaha RD250E 1979

£9995

A unique bike with only 18 miles from new! Ridden home by the owner of a German Yamaha dealership as the last RD250 he had to put into his collection.
Imported into the UK in 2022 The bike has had a light re-commission to keep it in running condition most notably new crank seals. In the German market only Black with speed blocks!

Yamaha’s final shot at an air-cooled quarter-litre twin, the RD250C arrived in 1976 looking just like the simultaneously introduced RD400. Indeed, the two machines were identical apart from bore/stroke dimensions, overall gearing and the use of cast alloy wheels on the RD400, the RD250 sticking with the conventional wire-spoked variety. In those days (the mid-1970s) learner motorcyclists could jump straight on a 250 after passing their 17th birthday, and the RD250 with its 15-second quarter-mile time and 90mph-plus top speed provided all the thrills a teenager could want, on the road at least. The model was up-dated as the 250E for 1978 gaining electronic ignition and the 400’s cast wheels. It was replaced by the water-cooled RD250LC in 1980.

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