I used to have a 74 Yamaha 400 2stroke RD, Id pull up to lights with kids on Honda CB 600s and other assorted off the showroom floor models.
they wernt laughing for long
Ha!
My brother had an RD400 back in the 70's. Those were the king!
His was real nice... right up until one of my buddies "borrowed" it one day and tried to pop a wheely.
He was not qualified to pull such a stunt, so the RD took off without him and bounced off a neighbors car.
Try to visualize this...
I lived in a culdesac.
We were a bit blazed at the time and putzing around on our skate bourds in front of my house...
My buddy noticed the key in the ingnition, so he fired it up and took the RD out onto the main street where he was still in view.
He raps off the throttle a couple times and then pops the clutch and takes off.
Last thing I saw was him just starting to pull up the front wheel....didn't look very professional....:frown:
Then he was gone from view....stage left....
Then I heard him trying to let go of the throttle (this was when the bike was shooting out from under him)

...then a bunch of scratchy, crashy, crunchy sounds....

About 5 seconds later I see him enter stage left....a bit tore up, with a severe limp and holding his arm...as he ran past the end of the culdesac towards his house.....exit stage right....

Then I hear a bunch of off stage yelling from off stage left...
So I go skating over to see what he did.
That's when I saw the bike laying there all banged up, the neighbors car all dented and scratched up, and the pissed off neighbor

hollaring down the street at my buddy as he dissappeared up his own drive way down the street.
Ah crap....
I turned back around, skated back to my house...and started trying to figure out how to tell my big brother about his RD's new styling.
