Early Yamaha ID?

[Bellicose]

Hi all, i need a bit of help to ID a bike.

I just pulled this out of my neighbours shed, it's missing a few bits but he said they will be in the shed somewhere, so will have to have a rumage, but f*ck me you would not believe the size of the spiders and cockroaches in there lol.


I have the old reg/ownership papers and it's a '64 250cc 2 stroke. So i did some research but haven't come up with any definative answers. It was blue so i thought it may be a YDS3 but on further inspection i don't think it is as the front guard and tail light housing is different, also the YDS's didn't have fully chrome tanks.

Any help advice would be much appreciated as i'm stumped lol.

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[ellipsis]

...looks a bit like a 60 to 63 YD 3...250cc...wouldnt be a lot of them about now...

[NZsarge]

Hi all, i need a bit of help to ID a bike.

Can't help you with what model it is but it's certainly a bit of a find. :niceone:

[Bellicose]

...looks a bit like a 60 to 63 YD 3...250cc...wouldnt be a lot of them about now...

First NZ reg' was 4-3-64, so quite possibly a '63 :niceone:


Can't help you with what model it is but it's certainly a bit of a find. :niceone:

Yeah it certainly is a FIND lol. I've thrown out things in better condition, but i think it's worth saving.

[NZsarge]

Yeah it certainly is a FIND lol. I've thrown out things in better condition, but i think it's worth saving.

Certainly is worth saving provided it can be saved and is done well.

[spookytooth]

that looks very much like the first bike i got wen i started working,ugly as tank and all.Can't rember the year or model now but it had 250 eletric start on side covers

[neels]

Wonder how long that's been in the shed

There's some work to do there, but got to be worth the effort for someone, old jappas like that don't turn up every day.

[Bellicose]

Wonder how long that's been in the shed

There's some work to do there, but got to be worth the effort for someone, old jappas like that don't turn up every day.


Been in the shed for approx' 25 years, it had an odd firing problem (hence the missing side cover) then it became all too hard and was forgotten about.

With a bit of patience i think i'll get it finished.

I'm a custom painter/artist and have built many a award winning car so a lil ol bike doesn't scare me................................................ ....i think LOL.

[Kickaha]

Do you have a frame number?

[FJRider]

Does it look like this ... ???

and a link ...

http://www.classicyams.com/street-bikes/2-stroke/yamaha-yds2.html

[PeteJ]

It is a YD3, the "touring" version.

The sports YDS3 was much more popular here (as in pics in the post above this).

YD3s are as rare as rockinghorse droppings, world-wide (even new, I think only about 40 went to Europe new).

[nudemetalz]

Those ones were premix too, weren't they.

Potential -

[Bellicose]

Do you have a frame number?


Yep,

Frame # Y13-34380

Engine # D6-34428.


Now from what i can find it looks like it's a YD3 but engine # comes up as a YDS2 number.


Now i'm more confused lol.

[SPman]

that looks very much like the first bike i got wen i started working,ugly as tank and all.Can't rember the year or model now but it had 250 eletric start on side covers
That'd be a YDS5E....1967

That's a nice red DS3 in the photo.....yours??

[The Viking]

Hi
Try this guy:http://www.savoyvintagecycles.com/index.html
Good luck.

[blackdog]

i guess the first thing on your shopping list is a 44gallon drum of CRC

nice score mate, looking forward to the updates :corn:

[White trash]

Not sure if you've noticed but one of the indicators is a bit twisted. It may also pay to check the tyre pressures before riding it, they dend to drop a little over 25 years.

You're welcome.

[roogazza]

Looks like a YD2 or 3
I remember seeing a YD3 mid sixties in a pale blue colour.
The YD3s may have been single carb and with the painted guards etc were the std non sports version. Very rare.

[Bellicose]

cheeRS guys.

Have spoken to a very knowledgable(sp?) fella down south who has a few of these.

It's a YD3, but the more i go over it more appears to be missing, and most of the bits are either super hard to find or if you can find them then it's mortgage the house time lol.

So i think it may sit in a corner of the shed 'til i decide what to do.

The only problem with restoring this bike is the fact they were never that popular new and restored it will always battle against Brit' classics in the re-sale stakes.


The other option is 'Restify' (restore / modify) it with period bits from jap' and brit' bikes.


It may end up on TM but i've got no idea of value in it's current state.

[Bellicose]

Well i'm sorry to say it's now for sale on TM.

Decided it's a little too far gone for me and needs quite a few parts that are non-existant.

[GD66]

Good call, buddy. Get it back into circulation, and move it on to someone with a better chance of salvaging something from it. Sheds everywhere are still loaded with impulse buys that haven't made the cut on Sunday morning....:facepalm:

[Bellicose]

Sheds everywhere are still loaded with impulse buys that haven't made the cut on Sunday morning....:facepalm:

Never a truer word spoken mate :yes: