I’m putting my 950 adventure up to sale, great bike, runs and handles great. Wear and tear on my knees has me moving to a lighter bike for adventure riding. 36K miles. Bike is great mechanically, meticulously maintained. Cosmetically OK, the biggest flaw is the bubbling decals, which I’ve just never bothered to fix, one of the panniers has some dents and scratches, and the saddle is somewhat faded.

many extras: 

Al Jesse panniers and top box (with fuel bottle carriers)

 LED taillight/turn signals

Galfer wave rotors and pads front and rear

euro headlight with HID low beam and LED high beam

euro headlight switch

rally switch (fingertip control of odometer modes)

FMF Q4 slip-ons

facet fuel pump

head2wind jet kit and prefilter

second fan and low-temp thermo-switch (never goes above 4 bars on guage)

remote idle mixture screws

renazco saddle

touratech GPS crossbar

touratech mirrors

heated grips

built-in heatrollers for grips and vest connection next to shock adjuster

aftermarket clutch slave cylinder

Black Dog Cycle Works skid plate

LiFe battery, with tender pigtail brought out under the seat. 

LED driving lights, with 3-way controller (not mounted right now- they we’re on the crash bars, which got bent in, wait for it, a crash)

Extra parts available with the bike: original headlight and seat. extra sprockets (1 rear, two front), TKC 80 tires with about 1300 miles on them, original seat, KTM touring windscreen, Clearview windscreen and deflectors, original mirrors, 2 engine oil filters.

Full service 1600 miles ago: valve check, prefilter clean, oil change w/filter.  Rear shock and forks rebuilt 2000 miles ago by Barry Wressel at KFG, in Kent, Washington.

Bike is located in Duvall, WA (30 miles east of Seattle). Test rides with motorcycle endorsement and $5000 in my hand.

This bike is one I rescued from a friend’s back patio. Repaired the bent front wheel, cleaned the tank, rebuilt the carbs, replaced fuel lines and filters, replaced the fork/fairing boots, verified good compression (142psi left and 147psi right), set the valve clearances, changed oil and filter, flushed front brake system, replaced the battery, and tuned the carb mixtures and balance. She’s a little rough cosmetically (paint faded, numerous paint chips in front-facing surfaces, left lower fairing has been broken and repaired, most of the gold pinstripes have worn off, and a curiously-placed dent in the rear of the fuel tank- ‘ouch!’), but she runs well and goes down the road very comfortably. Features include hard saddlebags that detach, adjustable windscreen, front disk brake (rear drum), single-sided swingarm with shaft drive, reliable, air-cooled opposed-twin engine. Caveats: i don’t have a key to the saddlebags, the voltmeter doesn’t work (shows 17V any time the key is on), tires are a pretty old, but with decent tread. A great classic commuter bike. Easy, inexpensive maintenance, great weather protection, comfortable, and easy to ride. 66K miles showing, believed to be accurate.
$2500 firm.

Sold on 5/3/2020

I got this RD350 from a customer as part of a 2-fer deal: take these two bikes, make 1 runner, keep the other one. So i fixed up his ’74, and kept this one. It’s nearly complete ( missing the oil pump, headlamp, and battery) and the engine has compression, turns over easily with the kickstarter, and all 6 gears engage. The tank was cleaned with rust remover about a year ago, and is solid, with a bit of surface rust. The lock has been removed from the cap, i have the lock unit. I also have a box of parts to go with this that includes an extra front brake caliper, most of a top-end gasket kit, the oil pump side cover, headlight ring and sealed beam (not functional), fuel petcock (disassembled), charging and ignition system parts removed from the ’74 to make way for electronic ignition. some turn signals, and the original front brake hose setup from the ’74. I have a clear and signed WA title, but no key.

As is, where is. you’ll need a trailer or pickup.

$750

On Saturday Aug 22nd, we rode down to Tacoma and spent the afternoon ogling vintage bikes at the LeMay Car Museum. Here are a few of the ones that really stood out for me.

I’ve always had a thing for 6-cylinder inline engines. The early-80’s Honda CBX was a lovely piece of work, and the 6-into-1 bundle-of-snakes header here is just the icing on the cake. The owner rode it away when the meet was over and it sounded as good as it looks.

 

One of the first bikes I really remember: a late 60’s Honda CL 350 Scrambler. A co-worker of my dad’s had one just about like this. He had to go to Germany for an extended period of time, so he left it with my dad. We used to go for Sunday afternoon rides up to around the lake just a few miles for our house. This is probably where my love of motorcycles was kindled.

 

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not that big a fan of modern Moto Guzzi’s, but this ’57 Falcone (also known as the ‘bacon slicer’ Guzzi) really does it for me. The artistry in the design of the overhead cam rocker boxes, and that enormous external flywheel. Pure Italian beauty.

 

This is a ’76 Bultaco Sherpa T Observed Trials bike. I Had a ’79, which was nearly identical except that it was blue, and mine had a minor celebrity provenance. It’s first owner was a successful national motocross racer named Chuck Sun. That Bultaco was the bike that taught me enough trials skills to get to the Advanced class. (The first time around, in my early 20’s. I worked my way to Advanced standing again in my late 40’s; it was much harder that time!) This bike is awesome for two reasons: it still has the original alloy fenders, which almost none of them that have actually been used in competition still possessed, and it was shown with a period-correct punch card clipped to handlebars, as though its rider was just about to head out on the loop for a real event back in ’77.

 

This is the bike that took Best-in-Show. A Godet Egli-Vincent. Which means a 1000cc V-twin from a classic Vincent Black Shadow, in a Patrick Godet-built replica of an Egli chassis. Godet did such a masterful job of replicating the Egli chassis that Fritz Egli gave him permission to use his name on the bikes. An absolutely stunning piece of craftsmanship. It also made a beautiful noise!

There are more pictures at Lara’s SmugMug account.