• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

  • In order to help others find info on a particular bike, be sure to put the year, make or model of bike that you are asking a question about, in the Topic Title. This will allow people to pass by posts they have no interest in.

Winter Project...73 RD350

Yes, I think that's an R5. The detailing on the crank case covers is different. Frankly, I think the R5 is the cutest one in the family. I would like that style tank and those side covers on my RD400. The white and gold is my favorite. I've never had an R5. Cycle called them, in the day, the closest thing to a perfect motorcycle available. No reed valves, a 5 speed, and drum brakes. They had horizontally split cases. The previous family of 2 stroke twins had vertically split cases. I bought a RD350 "for my wife" back in the 90s. I put Factory Pipe Products chambers and rearsets on it. I took off the seat cover, cut the seat down a little for her, and put the stock seat cover back on. A couple of unintended wheelies on it, and she had had enough of it. It came on to the pipe pretty hard. I think I paid $600 for a ready to ride decent looking bike back then. It was the maroon with two white stripes on each side of the tank, as I recall.
 
GregT said:
View attachment 54927This is what I did with mine in late '72....back when I had hair. LOL.
First outing at a local track. Turned out not too bad as a club racer - and fast enough to be competitive at our National level.
Click to expand...
Who knew Austin Powers club raced. Yeah Baby!
attachment.php
r_1257175_Jc2jj.jpg
 
Cool bike, Chuck. Should be a fun one to do, and a blast to ride. Is that mileage real..? It's like it was ridden for one weekend then abandoned to time.
 
Yes Larry..true life millage. Sat in a barn for close to 45 years. Last registration sticker on the forks was from June 1973. Absolutely unbelievable.
 
GregT said:
For some reason, none of your pics open for me. If it's an R5 it's piston port rather than the RD's reed valve. 5 speed Vs 6.
The RD350 manual will work for you - everything is pretty much the same.

I turned one of them into a homebuilt TR3 in late '72. Went very well indeed.
Click to expand...

My brother registered and rode a TD2 350 on the road in CA in the early 70s. I just found a pictue of it somewhere. It was the vertically split case version. It was way faster than any contemporary street bike. Dan Hanebrink built it and raced it previously. Hanebrink made his own magnesium wheels for it, 16", and he made his own disc brake set up for it. It was way peppy compared to about anything.
 
So far I havent found a source for 1972 R5 tank decals. Anyone, anywhere in the world, have any ideas where to try? AFE Graphics, Diablo, and a few others Ive found dont seem to have R5 decals.
 
chuck hahn said:
So far I havent found a source for 1972 R5 tank decals. Anyone, anywhere in the world, have any ideas where to try? AFE Graphics, Diablo, and a few others Ive found dont seem to have R5 decals.
Click to expand...

Paint......
 
Decals are laid on top of the Orange and not cleared over. I wish to keep it as 100% true as possible. May have to take the tank somewhere and see if they can be copied..and get a few sets made just in case of a screw up.
 
chuck hahn said:
So far I havent found a source for 1972 R5 tank decals. Anyone, anywhere in the world, have any ideas where to try? AFE Graphics, Diablo, and a few others Ive found dont seem to have R5 decals.
Click to expand...

I know Diablo carries decals that are not on their website.
Maybe contact them directly.
 
Didnt know that Steve. I will give them a call. If they dont maybe they can use my tank for reproduction purposes.
 
I'm surprised the black is a decal. I can't tell so well from the photo but it looks like the black goes over a compound curved surface and you can't put decals down over surfaces like that or wrinkles will form.
 
Definite ridge the fingernail grabs when you hit the sides of the black. Already tried that out.
 
An edge doesn't mean it's a decale. A lot of older paint jobs were single stage and that will leave a mask edge. Mind you I'm not talking about those wide pinstripes, I'm talking about the larger black panel areas.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top