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So, now I knew what it was to ride a TZ 350 engine, and wanted to race. I knew I could
never do that with the RD 400 frame. So, I started to buy little things to build my Yamaha TZ 350. It took a while, but slowly
it started to look like a race bike.
You know, I built this bike in my bedroom, and as soon as it was finished, I looked for
a spark, put some gas and oil in it, pushed it into the kitchen and....!!!! Yes, it worked! I had 2 meters to work with and
I had to be careful "not" to run it through the wall! (O: My, "then" girlfriend wasn't all that thrilled about the whole experience,
the house was filled with blue smelly smoke, Ha-Ha, The good thing was, it worked!
I had this type of ignition on my bike. Very simple, push, go! It never failed me.
Here you can see the 2X 38MM power jetted carburettors, I had the engine in the RD400 frame before
as on this picture.
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Yep, I know these pictures aren't the greatest, but I have such good
memories about that day. Everybody was wheelying around. I never got a good picture of me doing a wheelie in the race or practice,
but someone got me on a home video recorder and so I just had to take some digital pictures of the tv screen to get some images.
You can tell by the big lines through the picture frame. I had a blast that day. No pulling on the handle-bars, it just does
that at every corner by itself.
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Looking at my old TZ350 after 13 years, I feel a
bit unhappy that I had to sell it. Although I learned to ride my Rotax 125GP much harder and faster, I still liked this one
the best. The power and the sound.........would be fun to take it to the tracks again! (O;
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Nothing smooth here. Coming out of the corner at Tolbert in Holland,
it starts pulling very hard, shooting forward. At around 10,000RPM the front wheel shoots up like you wouldn't believe. Just
in 1st gear ofcourse, which is around 60 MPH....(O:
Here are some pictures of my TZ350 engine I had in the bike. Also
a picture of the cylinders. You can see that they have been worked on, you got to look close for that (O; They
were ex-GP racer Rob Bron his old champion cylinders, and were fast as the devil. Can't tell you what was done on them,
but with the 38MM powerjet carburettors I had plenty of horse power!! http://www.robbron.be
Rob Bron
These are TZ250 cylinders, not mine, just to show the difference in size
and port changes through the years.
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This is how it turned out, nice bike. Too bad they don't run anymore.
These older bikes have something special about them, at least, I think so!
Assen was my home circuit. Did most of the free training days and races there. We also
had some street tracks, which made it very exciting to practice the different tactics on the different tracks.
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