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Yamaha DNA is common to both oldies. Size makes all the difference Look at those crash guards. It looks like Dumbo’s about to take off

RX100 was a poignant reminder of ending up in a hospital or worse, its original price tag! How many
why the RD saw an early demise in and the RD attracting the label of motorcycles can boast that, eh? The
just about eight years, while the RX ‘widow maker’. A bit harsh, but RX, on the other hand, was easier to
series continued to be on sale for a for its time, when general public control, gave far better efficiency in
decade and a half, until the sale of sensibilities went with safe choices, an era of ‘Fill It, Shut It, Forget It!’,
two-strokes was officially banned in bank savings and family planning, and came as a worthy successor to
the country. here was a motorcycle that defied the RD. And it also continues to sell
Certainly ahead of its time and logic and common sense. And that is at a hefty premium to its original
way quicker than anything most what it built its legacy on, one that price tag — that is, if you find
Indians had ever handled before, still stands today. someone willing to part with it. A
the RD 350 was a handful. There A pristine RD fetches a price true son to its father, then. And two
have been countless stories of riders that is five to six times greater than stonking lessons for a millennial. ■

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