| Author | Message | ||
     Johnk3 |
anyone seen this bike or any other 500cc 2 sdtoke v4 streetbikes? | ||
| Spatten1 |
Saw a few RG500 Gammas, and a couple of RZ500 Yamahas at Laguna. | ||
| Srlorg |
I had one for a year or so. Theyre scary fun if you pipe and port the crap out of them. Handling is so-so like most 80s bikes (thats part of the scary fun). There are some standard frame and suspensions mods that bring them up to par. | ||
| Tahoe_xbuelligan |
saw a RZ500 last night at our local bike night. He said they never sold in the U.S. He purchased his off ebay and told me that he saw one sold on ebay in the last couple of weeks. Cool bike. | ||
| 12r |
Up until 1999, I owned an NS400R and I used to ride with (and rode) another guys RD500LC. The RD (or RZ)500 was never legally available as a road bike in the USA but inevitably some made it. I found the RD more powerful than my NS but it was very poorly made, heavy and handled so-so. The NS400R was compact and far more nimble (very much like my Buell - one of the main reasons I bought it) and it was superbly put together, a real quality product. The NS handled like a dream and was only getting outclassed by other road bikes towards the end of the 1990s. You can read Motorcyclist's 1985 test of it here http://www.elmarie.dsl.pipex.com/Articles.htm  |
