HISTORY OF THE RD 350 LC/R IN ENGLAND

June '80
4L0

 Beginning of sale in UK with 2 front brake disks (RD350LC) .

The importer MITSUI was so embarrassed by the long delay to deliver ordered bikes that they gave everyone who had put down a deposit a free BELL helmet with matching strippes to the bike ! Read article on the right of YAMAHA NEWS from May 1980.

 

End of 1980, RD350LC sacred "Machine of the Year" in Motor Cycle News, the biggest motorcycle newspaper. Following that, Yamaha made the following "poster" in their CIRCUIT magazine from January/February 1981

Yamaha CIRCUIT Magazines

'81
4L0
 New black coloring
'82
4L0
 New colorings.
'83
31K
 New model  RD350LC2 .
'84
31K
 New colorings.
'85
1JF & 57V
 New models (one with fairing)  RD350N "Naked" & RD350F "Fairing".
'86
1UA & 1WT
 New models (one with fairing) RD350N2 & RD350F2.
'88
3DH1
 New colorings.
'92
4CE
 New (imported from BRAZIL) model with new full fairing with twin head lamps (RD350R).
'93
4CE
 New coloring (RD350R).
'94
4CE
 New coloring (RD350R).
'95
4CE
 New coloring (RD350R) & end of sale.

 
'80 & '81
'82
'83
'84
'85
'85
'86
'86
'88
'92
'93
'94
'95