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.
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!
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.
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.
That's interesting! I can't just recall the registration number of my old CB160 now, fairly certain it had a B suffix though.
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!
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
Had the AS1 125cc twin in 1970, my first bike. This is a library picture. View attachment yam.jpg View attachment yam.jpg
