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EARLY YAMAHA'S 1959 -63 YDS's

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Replied by GFrench on topic EARLY YAMAHA'S 1964 -65 YDS2 YDS3

What an awesome video!

Man he sure is not babying that bike at all- :OnFire
If it ain't smokin', it's broken!
1970 RT1 360
1970 RT1 360
1971 CT1 175
1971 DT1 250
1971 DT1 250
1971 DT1 250
1971 RT1 360
1971 RT1 360 "Black Widow"
1973 RT3
1974 DT 360
1976 IT 400 / redesigned as a 75 MX400
1978 XT 500
1980 YZ 465
1984 IT 490
27 Jul 2015 09:41 #81

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That video is John Stein on his YDS based Catalina Scrambler racing at Catalina.

He took a YDS3 and had Scott Clough build the motor and pipes.

Ironically he came across a "genuine Ascot Scrambler" when he was building his Catalina
race bike. He was looking for a parts bike....so he used some of the parts for his race bike.

Eventually I then purchased this genuine Ascot from him...and this is the Ascot that's the subject of this thread......as they say the rest is history.

John Stein attended Cal Dreamin1 in 2014 with his son's...



He can be seen at 1:51 cruising by on his modern bike.
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I am seeing red !

In a good way.....

Lance finished up all my red parts for the Ascot last week.

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It's all looking good....

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The air cleaners were actually powdercoated by the PO and came with the bike. The red is pretty close
to the red I chose to use. Just a shade or two darker.

I won't tell if you don't ?
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Replied by Scootern29 on topic EARLY YAMAHA'S 1964 -65 YDS2 YDS3

Very nice Dave. I am following this thread closely. Like I told you, I am getting more and more into the early YAMAHA bikes as I really never noticed them before. They are quite special.
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Replied by Makotosun on topic EARLY YAMAHA'S 1964 -65 YDS2 YDS3

Superb! This is going to be a seriously cool motorcycle.
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Here's a cool article from 1963 on the Ascot...

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I have just found a set of rims and spokes that I will be lacing up for this project.....
it will be a few weeks till I have them. So more later on that.

I need your guys opinion....based on the photos in this article
"what tires do you think I should use on this project ?

I would like tires that look similar to the one's in this article...as per the article this is an unmolested Ascot.
After reading the article....should I run 12:1 premix ratio ?
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Replied by 1PatK on topic EARLY YAMAHA'S 1964 -65 YDS2 YDS3

Those long skinny knobby pattern tires were popular in Japan back then. I needed one for the front of my scrambler and it took over a year to find one, finally in Japan .


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Wow 1Patk that's impressive you were able to come up with that tire.

What make and model is that tire BTW ?

Thanks for posting !
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Replied by 1PatK on topic EARLY YAMAHA'S 1964 -65 YDS2 YDS3

Yokohama Y61
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