Rajdoot RD350 - fresh from the factory

Fresh the word always sounds exciting, let it be edible item or something for the RD 350. I managed to grab the every wanted "Front Mudguard", YAAAAaaaaaaaaahooooooooooooooo it is factory fresh. The picture below shows the new mudguard and the old Rajdoot 175CC bike's modified mudguard which I was using in my RD350. The Bike is getting ready for the final make up of the engine. Oh yeah the bike revs good but I still wanted to smell the std. size cylinders performance.I also got few more items for the bike including a set of old electrical consoles on the handle bar. They looks sturdy but the switches seems to be gone for a task. I will still restore them and use it in my bike.Another achievement that makes my radar proud is that the original RD350 seat with beading. I remember buying a replica seat and last minute finding prevented me fitting the same on my Savager. But now having the OE fresh stock, makes my next attempt to restore the bike in high ramp.
At the end of this service, I will be requiring only the silencers in better condition than of what is installed on my bike now. What next? hmm the mudguard tail light and number plate holder setup, here it is:

Finding OE Spare parts - Rajdoot RD350

It's been tough job to find the OE parts for my bike during the restoration, hence I have decided to collect whatever parts comes on my way. Here are few items I recently found from someone and grabbed it for myself.

Now the person who had them all have no spares as all are in my custody. ;-)

Fork Cone and Front fork oil seals

Seat lock
Engine oil seal kit and Full Gasket kit for RD350

Nothing but RD350 attracts all

I used park my RD 350 outside my house to see how is the reason of passer by people. I have many episodes of experience from different stories, lots of fun watching.

Last weekend I got my friend visiting the house and she saw the bike to my surprise she also jumped immideately into the bike and posed to the camera.

RD ROCKS as always.... Long live RD

Stanley headlight beam - Yamaha RD350

After the CDI installation, I was not really having time to take the bike for a swing. Lately last week I touched up with the bike and went on riding to office. Wow... it was as always a pleasure fly.As and update, the bike is now wearing brand new Stanley headlight beam and after the CDI the halogen power also increased hence double gain.
I took these pictures in mobile camera hence sorry for the poor quality, will post some latest good quality pictures soon.

Instead of creating a new blog I thought I will update this blog post itself. As I've started using the RD for regular office commuting I'm experiencing many episodes of RD drive. These days my Mahindra Classic jeep and RD350 are sharing my daily office travel.Today a small tiny bike called Pulsar crossed my way asking me to race with him, I think the kid who drove the bike did some modifications in his tiny moped called Pulsar thought that the mods he did will make him over take the RD in a straight line.

I didn't really give an attention to him, but he opened the throttle with clutch applied again and again calling me to compete. hmmm my Savager roared thats it, I was in my office parking lot.
I didn't really know what happen to the kid who called me to race with him. Probably he is not trying with a cyclist. My best wishes to him.

RD350 - AutoEscorts CDI kit

It was long time since I updated this page, actually many things happen during the interval. The recent flood caused by rainfall in Velachery, Chennai, My RD350 was submerged into water and I had to do a lot in the engine again as the water went inside the engine parts.
The crank bearings were wet and spoilt hence we reset the crank and changed to new bearings again. Obviously I can let my RD to sleep for long due to unattended issues.

Now the bike rocks back however I found few minor issues with the CDI kit that I’m currently using, so decided to convert it to superior quality CDI kits made by AutoEscorts. The same manufactures are also supplying their CDI kits for all the Royal Enfield products in India as OE suppliers.

The unit has been arrived and waiting for good time to get into my Bike, let me hope for the best to happen. As of now the feedback from current users of this CDI has been so good and they respond saying it gives above 18kmpl mileage while top speed touches around 140+.
The CDI kit comes with 2 ignition coils, 2 CDI units (for RD350), 1 wiring harness, 1 Pulzar ignition wiring and 1 Magneto cam replacement cap.

The very special feature of this CDI is that, it doesn’t require the OE magneto replacement. To fit this CDI one needs to remove the condensers, points and ignition coils from the stock bike and refit everything that comes in the CDI pack. Hence not much of alteration compare to other CDI units.
As my bike is using Yamaha RX135 model’s CDI kit, the previous owner has removed the stock magneto assembly hence I was searching for a generator assy and found one for the same purpose.

Yamaha RD350 - Trade Meet

It is actually my mechanic who brought the idea of taking pictures of the RD350 that he has done and put on sale. (below bike didn't come for the meet, but I had this picture earlier)He requested me to post the pictures and bike details on the internet for some one who may be interested in buying the bikes.I had a gala time in trying out different restored RD350 today.

These are the picture taken during today's meet, if some one interested in taking the Silver or Blue colored bikes, please post your comments here.
I found the chambered RD350 runs and sounds better than the RD350s with stock silencers.
Also don't forget to write your contact number so I can pass them to the mechanic who may come in contact with you.

Aaudha Pooja – Celebrations with Yamaha RD350

Today it is a festival dedicated to the equipments that we use for every other work. Hence automobiles are considered as equipment that supports mobility.

The pooja was celebrated in the mechanic’s garage, here is a video clip of the event today.

Hope you would have noticed couple of other RD350s parked at the garage.

I got a chance to showcase the turn signal solution for RD350 today, this is the custom-made turn signal light stem used in the RD350s worked out in my mechanic’s garage.The stem can hold the normal Yamaha RX100’s dome and lens to give RD350’s complete turn signal setup while reducing the parts issue.