YAMAHA RD500LC
Aug 17, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS: STEVE COOPER
PHOTOS: MORTONS ARCHIVE
When the rumours began to percolate through that Yamaha was about to launch a machine that was ‘just like Kenny’s’ the public’s expectation was suitably piqued.
Were they going to be let loose upon Her Majesty’s Highways on a notionally sanitised OWR racer? Were they about to be forced to contend with potential high-sides as the bike spun its rear wheel then hooked up? Would they have to perpetually fight to keep the front end down? Just how close to a works half-litre
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