Ideal mount for first foray into road racing

[Lozza]

I'm sure at one stage everyone has thought about havng ago at dragging their knee at 200kmph on the tar, well here is your best chance to do that for a good price on a reasonably priced,reliable, well maintained RD250LC PERIOD 5 race bike. Be quick it's sure to get snapped up.

[oldfart]

Not for one minute and never will. Sorry 

[Lozza]

He has matching leathers Stew 

[Tony T]

Ah Lozza......... 

I've tried road racing twice in my life and had a blast both times cos I rode a DIRT BIKE!.  It's too hard for us old blokes to crouch down low like a dog rootin' a golf ball on those road thngys, so dirt bikes are much more comfy! 

I tried it on a KX500 with a slick on the back and dual purpose tyre on the front. And a 610 Husky with motard wheels. 

Way cheaper than nearly $6k for an LC too............

[Marc.com]

Easier on the back and joints than MX though.... good if you are old and shagged and if you feel really shagged then classic racing is ideal.

Not sure the pink LC is really moving me. My nocturnal road race fantasies look more like this

[Tony T]

Easier on the back and joints than MX though....

Fair point......... 

Pardon my ignorance, Marc. But what is that??

[tony27]

Pure 60s bike porn otherwise known as a Paton, think it was the same guy who ran his own bike in the 500 days for a few races per year

[Slakewell]

Road racing to most dirt guys is BS until you nail a perfect corner , drifting 4" wide, hard on the gas in 3 or 4th on a fast road bike is such a rush. 

[Davey Crocket]

I did motard for a few years, first on a 650 Berg, then a SMR525 KTM, loved it, and Marc's right, sliding in and drifting out of a corner cranked over is an awesome feeling.....will do it again if it gets up and running.......I will definately have ago at classic roadracing one day.......mates got a RD400 set up with about 60hp....he's still learning to stay upright.

[Lozza]

Yes Tony 27 it's a Paton remanufactured version of old man Paton's 60's racer, Paton continued up until they were well and truely shafted by Dorna in the 500cc era. So revered we Paton in the the paddock that the legend goes that Alan Cathcart reckon the 500cc would go much better if it had the NSR 500 carbs, afer a visit from a HRC excecutive they found a set of carbs lying round. Cagiva gave them a frame and swing arm also, the inside of that twin is as well engineered as any F1 engine. Again Tony T it's in Classic Racer mag.
A real shame private Italian teams like Paton and Minardi in F1 don't exist any more.
 
http://www.paton.it/500Gp2T2001.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8lKwLbtB8

Surprising there is still no bids on the LC 

While not hard on the joints the inner thighs and arms take a hit from footpeg pressure and countersteering.

[GD66]

Pure 60s bike porn otherwise known as a Paton, think it was the same guy who ran his own bike in the 500 days for a few races per year

It was a little more intense than that Tony, Patons finished 6th in 1967 and 4th in 1969 in the 500 World championships. But bike porn for sure : the replicas sold these days pull over 150 mph. Drool, drool...

BTW that LC is a good one, I'll wager it's being sold to fund a newly-acquired TZ but it's as good as any out there. $5800 still seems a little exxy...

[mx250]

Surprising there is still no bids on the LC 

He's undoubtedly put the money into it but probably still 'over the market' .

[firko]

Ah the wonderful Paton....How beautiful is that work of industrial art? I was extremely priveleged to get a guided tour of the last of the two stroke Paton GP racers by dear old Mr Patoni himself after the last Eastern Creek GP in '95. The bike had barely qualified and finished down the back of the pack with his Japanese rider but it didn't matter one iota to me, the bike was an absolute jewel of engineering excellence. I also sampled Luigi's own Paton branded Chianti and some nice Italian munchies with the nicest bunch of guys on pit row. While all of the other journos and pit whores were sucking up the big GP stars, I found a little bit of heaven hidden away down the end of pit row in the tiny two garage Paton pit. Patoni was the last of those wonderful old privateers who truly lived the dream. Today it's all corporate skulduggery with no time for passion.

[ozyditcher]

He has rg250 pipes, those things are full of baffles. you can still see the spot welds. I love to have it.

[firko]

Maybe it's me but that pink framed LC Yamaha looks fuc*ing awful. I find road racing a big yawn to watch unless it's the top boys. I raced a few club days back in the 70's on my Maico an DS6 Yamaha and later on in the early 80's on my Z1R and I couldn't believe how committed to the one line and one line only most club level road racers are. It's as if they're going to be thrown into the eternal fire of hell if they move more than 20mm off their designated path. The funny thing is, if you show any sort of initiative and start using dirt style lines and squaring off the corners you'll pass shitloads of the puppies but inevitably cop a black flag from the steward for dangerous riding. I can remember Alan Cunnynghame getting into all sorts of steward trouble when he used dirt track style cornering lines on his Honda CR250 against the one line wonders back in the 70's. It got them that heated that it made headlines in Revs and AMCN.  The officials barred him in the end. Shawn Giles copped criticism as well but showed them all how it's done on his CR500.
Sorry for the thread highjack but the pink frame got me wound up.