FOAK - Buying from Europe

riccip says...

It's a 400?

 

mups says...

No, it's a 250

Count the fins on the cylinder barrel, and look how much room there is
between frame and cylinder head. Also check the castellated nut on the
exhaust silencer, the 400 had a rubber push connector between downpipe
and silencer.

<anorak mode off>

 

riccip says...

It looks like it was extremely low mileage or even new when someone
started pulling bits off it. The sprocket and sprocket nuts look like
they've never seen chain-lube.

 

Lozzo says...

<puts on anorak>

Ah hadn't spotted the nut on the exhaust. It's got a 400 rear wheel.
IIRC the 250C came with a rear drum.

 

It's in remarkably good nick compared to most?

 

mups says...

Not all of them. I've had plenty of 250C and 250D models that came with
drums or discs. There's no rhyme nor reason to them tbh. It depended on
what batch, and who bought what from where cos not all came from
official sources. Coburn and Hughes had 100 silver 250Es in at one
point, all of them came from some African state and had spoked wheels
rather than the cast ones the E usually got, and they had either disc or
drum fitted to the rear, depending on your luck. I owned 3 of them over
the years.

The Yamaha parts book doesn't say the 400 had a disc, the 250 had a
drum, it lists either. The parts book does say there's a difference for
other specific chassis parts like rear mudguard grommets.

 

Lozzo says...

<takes anorak[1] off, hands to Lozzo>

[1] Shouldn't it really be a paddock jacket?

 

Bet you were wearing Frank Thomas paddock boots as well.

 

mups says...

I have photos of me in an RD paddock jacket circa 1983/4

Sad eh?

 

The Older Gentleman says...

Have a fucking word man. I've never owned one bit of tossy FT kit[1]

Doc Martens if it looked like rain, or white Reebok bumper boots for dry
days.

[1] My old mate Carl won't like that, he's the FT rep for my area.

 

Spot on! It's "brand new", zero miles, dealer-registered but
never owned or been on the road (have the docs to prove). Got it
from a provincial Yamaha dealer near Osnabruk. Apparently Yammie
spares took their time arriving back in the 70's and they needed
the parts urgently for an insurance job. So they stripped them
from a freshly uncrated machine with the intention of putting it
back together later.

Didn't think anyone would spot that, well done Loz. Here's your
beer with steak n' chips thrown in as a bonus.
http://tinyurl.com/6gwhb

riccip

 

Lozzo says...

I've still got mine. I think I might wear it for the BOSM.

 

That's a phrase I've not heard in *years*.

 

If I could locate a Yam GTS1000 at those low prices I'd go halves with
you.

 

Pervert.

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

<small voice>

I saw one for the first time "in the flesh" at the Stafford Show and
quite liked it.

</sv>

 

Masochism in 'pervert' is not a problem if you know how to fix the
exorbitantly priced ABS[1] and a way round the astronomically priced
exhaust system[2]. Then 'pervert' transmogrifies from 'masochist' to
'curious obsession'.

[1] Which fails though lack of use, in what looks like a permanent
manner.
[2] Made out of tissue paper with built in sensors for the EMS an a cat
for the US market.

 

Oh dear! Was that the kiss of death to my next challenge................

 

Mick Whittingham was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Nononono, that only happens when I actually buy one.

 

<VBG>

Yep. Choose something else, now.