Every month Classic Motorcycle Mechanics have a retro reboot feature where great bikes from the past are re-invented as they might look today. The last few months we’ve had an RD500LC, RG500 and a CBX and although this month’s reboot is a ZZR-800, next months is this:

Expansion chambers, kickstart, killer front end, subtle back end

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Shame it’ll never be made

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Just change the headlight for something rounder and that would be sweet as a nut.

How us the 500, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease…

It’s all right eh?

I would lose the mirrors and maybe fit some smaller indicators but otherwise that’s my dream bike

Unovlo +1

On closer inspection the swing arm and pipes look a bit haphazard

Two stroke with a kick start drool drool

The 500 was in the January edition http://www.classicmagazines.co.uk/issue/View/issue/CMM201401/january-2014.

Similar sort of thing but with modern bodywork and yellow/black speedblocks

Not doing it for me, 70’s frame, 90’s suzuki RGV swingarm, morden forks, gladius headlamp, bit of a dogs dinner.

Surely a re-designed rd350 would be a 2T twin in a narrowed/lightened R6 chassis?

I’d have the bars a bit lower.

and the rear peg mounting plate needs to be black.

Can only find a small image of the 500

I used to love LC’s.
Stupid, stupid little things, how did we ever survive? 🙂

They were the most mental things ever! The sound of one on full tilt (which they all were, all the time) through a pair of Allspeeds. Brill!!!! 😀

And its the wrong colour. Gotta be candy blue.

Black and Yellow like Kennys 😛

And so crashable too. 🙂
You could change a pair of forks in half an hour with a bit of practice.

30 quid Kiwi lid, jeans, trainers and a leather jacket.
No gloves, no indicators, new pistons every month, rear tyre down to the canvas, chips in Blackpool, isn’t it?

And its the wrong colour. Gotta be candy blue.

Yep, I had one with the standard pearlescent paint when everyone elses’ was a white/black.

Still needs a fairing though.

I had the YPVS. After a couple of 250LCs. I loved it. I kind of like the makeover but think I’d rahter remember it as it was. And I’m sure if I ever rode one again, It’d be disappointing/potentially terrifying!

I was binned off the back of one of these back in 1987. My mate decided to race a 944 from a red light (Chapel St. Salford)without telling me.

He revved high, dumped the clutch and up went the front end and I was dumped unceremoniously off the back. How embarrassed I was.

Mental bikes.