76 YAMAHA MOTO-BIKE

[Rat Rod]

This one came all the way from North Dakota from member hstavn....thanks again Hollis! :wink:

Someone got carried away with the black spray paint. :?

A little nostalgia...

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

NICE :mrgreen:

 

[hstavn]

your very welcome! thank you

 

[Fisch]

Nice indeed! I have the model before this with the cottered cranks, but not nearly as nice as this one! SCORE!!

 

[Slingshot Dude]

COOL! just trow a black nanner saeat on it and it would be kool! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Fisch]

COOL! just trow a black nanner saeat on it and it would be kool! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

The original seat seems to be a very hard thing to find. You can do just a black banana, but the shape was a bit different than a classic nana.

 

[Rat Rod]

It's interesting how you only see them with the squared off banana seat, but the ad in the middle above shows one with a sprung saddle....weird. :?

 

[Fisch]

It's interesting how you only see them with the squared off banana seat, but the ad in the middle above shows one with a sprung saddle....weird. :?

The sprung solo saddle was the first generation.Those frames won't even have a hole to mount a banana. (Next to the upper shock mount.) The second (which I have) has the nana, but still cottered cranks. And yours has the nana and the one piece crank.

These came with drum brake hubs in some places and often people think they were moped wheels mounted in. Sadly that was the case with mine and the owner THREW AWAY the original drum wheelset!! AAAARGH!!!!

Your bike seems to confirm something I had noticed and that is the forks changed on the last generation. I knew they weren't painted, but also the ring under the rubber thing is different. Mine unscrews there. But If they are like mine, the cool thing it that the forks were the same used on smaller CC yamaha minibikes and motorcycles! So they can be replaced. But I think the triple tree spacing between the fork tubes was smaller on the bicycle than the motor bikes. And the inner fork tubes appear to be a bit longer.

A lot of folks prefer your bike because they don't have to mess with cotterpins. In fact the guy who sold me mine did it because he bought one of your lineage!

 

[Rat Rod]

The thing that cracks me up about these is the way they use these scrawny little screws to hold down the handlebar clamps.

I'm wondering how many of those snapped off back in the day.

 

[A.S.BOLTNUT]

This is one of the bikes that has Eluded me all these years , i'll find one some day ? Great bike , i can hardly wait to see what you do with it !

 

[Rat Rod]

There's only one realy bummer about this particular bike. The seat post that was jammed into the seat tube was too large and bent and someone either forced it down or the weight of the rider jammed it so hard down into the seat tube that it caused the tube to flare out a bit in the middle. After a bunch of lube spray and pulling on it for an hour with my vice grips I managed to get the seat post out of the tube.

The flared spot in the frame does have me thinking twice about restoring this one like I had planned.

 

[user 135]

Structurally I think you will be fine. I don't see that as to big of a detractor on value, if you can use an original size post.

 

[tuga]

You need a set of these :wink:

http://chuck.kichline.com/bikes/Framedents/default.htm


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