Yamaha CS5

[Johnwebley]

   I couldn't ignore the craving for blue smoke,

  so this appeared,
 imported from the USA,very low mileage,so far it seems  ok,

[Nurse Julie]

Very nice John. I love any bike that upsets Greta Thunberg 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[Bryanj]

The original RD mate, should be fun, somewhere got a dti to set up timing mate

[Yetanotherbike]

My first motorcycle was a round tank RD200 like this in metalic orange, complete with ace bars and a handlebar fairing. Despite lots of fettling and chamfering of the brake shoes, the front TLS brake was largely an on/off device. It was surprisingly powerful for the size of the bike, but very 'grabby'.
On my driving test, the tester told me he would simulate a real life situation where I would have to do an emergency stop. As I rode down the road expecting him to leap out or something, in my mirror a car distracted me by flashing his lights. When I looked forward again, the tester was in the middle of the road right in front of me with his arms open. As I was caught by surprise in panic I grabbed the brake and did a stoppie that Toprak would have been proud of!
Amazingly, he passed me and even congratulated me on my brake control.
I kept the bike for a year and was planning to get a RD400. My dad said, he would loan me the money if I bought a Honda 400/4, as he liked them. I wasn't really interested, but I was desperate to get a bigger bike, so I accepted the loan. One ride on my first Honda 400/4 and I was smitten and any thoughts of another Yamaha quickly evaporated.
Hope you have as much fun with your Yamaha as I did with mine.

[Laverda Dave]

Nice looking bike John. You've also bought some sunshine to go with it👍

[Johnwebley]

The original RD mate, should be fun, somewhere got a dti to set up timing mate

It's the one just before the RD,

No reeds,

I have a DTI,

The mileage is 480

Seems from the condition to be true,

Clean oil in the gearbox, plenty of compression


I shall just tidy it up, polish the scratches etc

Keep it with its patina

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[Rozabikes Tim]

Ring a ding ding.

Nice one John.

[DomP]

Nice John, much work needed?

[Johnwebley]

Nice John, much work needed?

Only spent a couple of hours looking around,

I connected a battery, the electric seem to work,

Does need various replacements

A few essentials, others cosmetic



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[K2-K6]

Very nice John.

The Yamaha two strokes of that era always have a good intake acoustic, that induction roar as they come on power, quite distinct and charismatic.

A good bike for blatting around on this summer 

[Spitfire]

A real piece of period biking it looks good

Cheers

Dennis

[florence]

I used to have a CS3, slightly older version of essentially the same bike.  For a small bike it was surprisingly fast.  Sadly, being very young and a bit too keen on thrashing it, the crank failed, some of it seemingly blasting out through the exhaust pipes

[Bryanj]

That looks like the last one before the RD, serviced loads of them way back when

[Rayzerman]

I'd love a good 2-stroke resto project...... very difficult to find one here anymore, and restored ones are worth mega dollars....  saw an ad yesterday, gent has 3 RD350's, one runner, one needs pistons, one needs a lot of stuff..... for the lot he's asking C$20,000.  The RD's are very desirable, but not that desirable, lol!!