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Tim Carrithers: 1975 Yamaha RD350 - Revisionist History

Retracing The Trajectory Of Yamaha's Original Pocket RocketWhat you rode once upon a time says a lot about who you were. Or at least who you wanted Nancy Bliss and the Keahey twins to think you were. I'm not entirely immune to the national nostalgia epidemic. Certain facets of 1972 beat the h-e-double-hockey sticks out of 2009. If I'm honest, with myself at least, the AT2-M was not one of them. You can't go back home. If you try, it won't be the same. I drove by the old house once. Some aesthetically impaired band of heretics had painted the garage purple and there was a '78 Honda CX500 decomposing in the driveway. Revisionist history leaves Memory Lane undisturbed while allowing a detour to the way you wanted things to be. To those who actually owned a spanky-new 183-lb. CR125 back in high school and never had to i.d. some corroded steel frame as the skeletal remains of your 50-horsepower RD400D: You've had your fun. This is my story.


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