1982 Yamaha RD350LC

Once owned by journalist Tracy Hagen, purchased from his collection on Sep 24 2017. 16,151 km = 10,035 miles

A good friend of mine, Dean, from Red Wing, sent me this pic below curious if I wanted it. After a few emails working out the price I got a truck from Enterprise and drove up the 800 or so miles from Nashville and grabbed it, along with, accidentally, his bike ramp. Turned out it was cheaper to buy him a new one and have it sent to him rather than send him his own back. But I digress. Tracey is sadly no longer with us, but he left a few bikes which Dean was helping his wife sell. He didn’t know much about this one other that it looked like he had just parked it with every intention to take it for another ride…which never happened. 10 years later I got to meet see it with my own eyes. It was clear it hadn’t been started since then and I made a pact with myself not to try, because I knew that if I did……I’d never stop riding it. The paintwork being almost perfect the plan would be to rebuild the motor and just clean everything else.