Yamaha As3, New To Me In 1972

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  1. curly

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    #1 curly, Jul 8, 2021
    Found this old photo, taken when the bike was just a few days old!

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  2. Tiglet

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    #2 Tiglet, Jul 8, 2021
    Had one myself in the same colour in the mid 1970's for going to w*red on.

    Totally underestimated little bike that went very well and IIRC a few got converted to race bikes.
     
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    #3 joe mc donald, Jul 8, 2021
    Great little screamer.
    Joe
     
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    #4 curly, Jul 8, 2021
    I bought the Yamaha after having a CB160.
    Compared to the old Honda it was a rocketship.
    I loved it, rarely see any outside of classic bike shows these days and they're sparse in those circles as well.
    Wish I'd bought 2 and stored 1 of them!
     
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    #5 johne, Jul 10, 2021
    My first road bike was a RD200B I got in 1975. I went everywhere on it for 18 months or so. Sadly I have no pictures of it.
     
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    #6 Tiglet, Jul 10, 2021
    Snap again curly, I had a Honda CB160 in 1966 reg SMA 25D.
    That's the only reg number that I can remember of the top of my head from my bikes of yesteryear.
     
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    #7 curly, Jul 11, 2021
    That's interesting!
    I can't just recall the registration number of my old CB160 now, fairly certain it had a B suffix though.
     
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    #8 curly, Jul 11, 2021
    I always liked the gold RD200B, still do.
    The AS3 was the first in a long line of Yamaha 2 strokes, which culminated in 1981 with my only other brand new bike an RD400F.
    I still love to see and perhaps even more to smell them out on the roads!
     
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    #9 Happy Jack, Feb 13, 2022
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    442B5821-4B1A-44AA-B18D-321086D1576F.jpeg 1967 Yamaha Big Bear 305 2 stroke. Ugly but fast My first motorcycle. Fond memories of the Yamalube system that never seemed to work! But fun bike lots of blue smoke and fouled plugs
     
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