The end is almost in sight, or so I continue to tell myself each and every time I fettle the Yamaha CS3C street scrambler.
Whilst awaiting electrical input to address the idiot lights this particular idiot can’t suss out, I’ve contented myself by addressing some of the outstanding little jobs along with the elephant in the room – the fitting of the exhaust pipes. Truth be told, it’s not an especially onerous task fitting a pair of high-level pipes, but there’s an Achilles heel to the design that Yamaha steadfastly ignored until the 1972 model year. Probably influenced by European designs of the 40s and 50s, most of Yamaha’s earlier bikes were equipped with large-diameter, threaded, exhaust stubs with similarly matching collars on the down-pipes. When both parts were ferrous the problem wasn’t so bad, but when
