My Harem

[Tink]

Sadly the RD's have recently gone and 400F replaced by the Blue restoration

[KiwiCol]

Nice straight looking bikes Tink, I reckon @Irish in Oz  would approve of them.  Hope you got good coin for them.

[Kiwifruit]

Nice those old RD's 

[seth]

I had a cou0le of older rd250's and 400's back when they were a couple of hundred £££ each .
Fantastic bikes almost as good as the rd350lc I had in 1987.
Wish I still had any of them.
Way to expensive now .

[Irish in Oz]

I'll never sell my RD, but I did say that about the Katana.
I have a few 2 smokers 65 Super Six, 69 Hustler, X7, 72 YCS5 200 Electric.

[Kiwifruit]

Nice one lrish 

[seth]

 Lovely rd400 @Irish in Oz
I'd love another one of those sometime I had a few back in the 80's when they were cheap.
Great bikes

[GSXKING]

Did the little RD's handle ? 

[grog]

They sure did.

[seth]

Handling didn't seam to matter as much back then when I was in my late teens 

[Irish in Oz]

They where the better of the bunch but they all needed a set of Koni, S&W or Marzocchi.

[Irish in Oz]

Here's a 55 year old. Will do when I get back to Oz, it should be about 60 then.

[Big Phil]

I look back at the old RD's and similar with awe when it comes to handling. Mine was an RD200 bought in 1977 and cannot understand how I and my mates got around tight left and right handers at serious speed with the foot rests sparking from hitting tarmac at 70 mph plus. The tyres were so thin and virtually square in profile back in the day. The grip was awful but we had no fear and somehow got round (well most of the time). Now we ride bikes on the road with 190 width tyres which are virtual slicks and worry about grip🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[Horse]

The first road bike I bought when I was 16 was a Mach 111 500 triple Kawasaki , going around corners was not in its DNA , lived with it for 5 years with many near misses, its in the shed for restoration so nearly 50 years later it will be good to ride it again to see how bad it really was. As you say Phil we don't know how spoilt we are (comparatively)
Horse

[Big Phil]

Thinking about it now I would love to see how the likes of Rossi would fair against the greats of Agostini, Phil Reed, Sheen and the many, many  other greats of the 60's and 70's without all the kit they have in the modern era. I'm a big (massive) Hamilton fan (patriotism mainly I guess) but could he hold a candle to the likes of Lauda or Stuart back in my day of the 1970's? Or that said even James Hunt a great hero of mine of the 1970's. I do believe you can only be the best of your generation and if your streets ahead like Hamilton that perhaps makes you the greatest of all time. In all honestly we will never know. As with football my other great love, Pele, Maradona, Messi/Renaldo all the greatest of their era but who is the very best??