Finally we got no snow on the roads and my father was nice enough to get my new 'baby' from Salzburg/Western Austria 300 kms away to my parents place Southeast of Vienna.
My brother helped him unload from the trailer yesterday and took some fotos with his mobile, therfore the not so good quality of the pictures.
Here she is, now I am proud to have 2 vintage Yamaha thumpers, one in Austria (SR500) and one here in LOS (SRX600).
I tried the last 6 years to get one legally registered here in Thailand but to no avail other than the usual invoice crap or dodgy books, and for most of all the 400 Jap versions.
As Austria still is suffering very cool weather she was not used now for more than half a year; it took my brother just 3 kicks to get her to life, he even took her already for a short spin (without plates) in arctic temperatures and stated that she's got amazing low-rev acceleration. Bike is a 1978 model, so 35 years old and needs no work to be done at all, previous owner also did the MOT before we picked her up, brother will rego it in the next week so I can take her out when I'm on holiday there soon. New oil, filter, sprockets, chain, tyres, sparkplug, brakepads......well she was the favourite vintage bike of a Yamaha mechanic......we seldom change our habits, don't we 55555555555...............
Cheers, Franz
My brother helped him unload from the trailer yesterday and took some fotos with his mobile, therfore the not so good quality of the pictures.
Here she is, now I am proud to have 2 vintage Yamaha thumpers, one in Austria (SR500) and one here in LOS (SRX600).
I tried the last 6 years to get one legally registered here in Thailand but to no avail other than the usual invoice crap or dodgy books, and for most of all the 400 Jap versions.
As Austria still is suffering very cool weather she was not used now for more than half a year; it took my brother just 3 kicks to get her to life, he even took her already for a short spin (without plates) in arctic temperatures and stated that she's got amazing low-rev acceleration. Bike is a 1978 model, so 35 years old and needs no work to be done at all, previous owner also did the MOT before we picked her up, brother will rego it in the next week so I can take her out when I'm on holiday there soon. New oil, filter, sprockets, chain, tyres, sparkplug, brakepads......well she was the favourite vintage bike of a Yamaha mechanic......we seldom change our habits, don't we 55555555555...............
Cheers, Franz