RealClassic YAMAHA RD250
Times change. We know this. Some changes surprise us more than others. Surely none more so than the change of status of a bike like Yamaha's RD250. It's gone from being something that needed an ASBO long before ASBOs were a thing, to becoming a machine that is now considered classic. Gauge it by road tax law or just lore as you see fit, but classic it is. I've been lucky enough to re-acquaint myself with an old friend.
Ahhhh, the late 1970s. Your 17th birthday is just around the corner and you are in your favourite bike shop. That heady and unforgettable smell of petrol, exhaust fumes and cigarette smoke fill your nostrils. The Boomtown Rats say how Monday is their least favourite day of the week and Dire Straits tell us how many chords Guitar George knows, all on a tired medium-wave transistor radio in the workshop. Despite your ridiculous hair-do and rapidly-going-out-of-fashion bell-bottoms, you have the money for the deposit on a bike. Your dad's words still ring in your ears from yesterday's heated discussion all about the virtues and value for money you get from a
