Adventure twins

[10bikekid]

In early 1994 I bought this beauty off my cuz Damian - that's him in the pic.


1988 Yamaha TDR250 twin cyl 2stroke! Got the leather jacket in the deal too I actually hardly rode it on gravel, always had road tyres on it. It was stupid fun on tarmac though, had it out on the old Baypark circuit for my first go at road racing & a couple of mid pack finishes in C-grade Sold it for more than I'd bought it for 2 weeks before the notoriously fragile TZR based motor lunched itself - probably won't be that lucky ever again. I still have the leather jacket

Cheers
Clint

A TDR is prolly the bike I would like to own. Less and less likely as time goes by unfortunately. If I won lotto I would be off to France to find a minter. Seen a few with RD350 motors in them.

Another bike for the Bucket List, have seen them for sale but never been in a position to buy

Perhaps since we have thus far been deprived how bout a Road test impression for us to over Clint

[george formby]

Another bike for the Bucket List, have seen them for sale but never been in a position to buy

Perhaps since we have thus far been deprived how bout a Road test impression for us to over Clint

Good call.
Back in the day I had a (slow) 750 Kwaka & every morning I would end up having a dice with a bloke on a (quick) TDR. Would get past him on a bit of dual carriageway then he would get past me coming off the roundabouts. Etc, etc. He would always end up buggering off when we got to some twistyish single lane. Wanted one ever since.
When they came out there was a one make motard race at the Guidon D'Or (Golden Handlebars IIR) on TDR's, mayhem & marvellous. I watched it on UK TV at the time but have never found it on the interwebs.

[scracha]

The bike will scrape it's foot pegs on tar seal if I fuck up, tours two up with luggage effortlessly & does about 300km on a tank if I chance it. Love the sound, too.

No idea what I would replace it with and it's worth sweet FA.

Yep...I dunno what I'd replace mine with. Maybe a KTM but they're farkin expensive. Having had the 850 the 900 is a much better bike....it's a LOT lighter (and the weight is much lower down), is better on the gas (nearly 400km), it's more reliable (at 80,000K just done cam-chain tensioner that pre 2004 models suffered from......mine must have missed the factory recall...bar that have only had a blown headlamp bulb) and has about 10% more grunt.

TDR's...yeah....would love one. Trackday at Cadwell park about 15 years ago and in the wet there was a lad on one simply raping guys on their shiny newish R1's.

[george formby]

I had the use of a TDM 900 for 6 months but it did not gel the same way as the 8fiddy for some reason. Possibly the OEM Dunlops.

Put me T30's (and the bike) to the test today. Rode a fair bit of gravel, slick clay, slimy, twisty, damp tarmac, a couple of lumpy bits which required a touch of body language and other stuff. Like dry tarmac. Had the pleasure of following a couple of wee, light footed trailies and more or less managed to keep up.
No issues or trouser stains whatsoever. The bike just keeps thundering along, oblivious, and the tires were only really challenged in the slick clay.
Bloody marvelous really. Even managed to find a bottle jack at the side of the road & score a kilo of elephant garlic. If I had a trowel in me tool kit I would have had a road side blueberry bush, too.