Topic: Sweet Triple with history!

[78whiteorbs]

Picked up this bike for a whooping 500$ Runs like a dream and pretty fast when you get on it . The coolest thing was all the original paper work was present , everything! Original warranty , uncrating checklist, you name it . Came from Flemington, New Jersey was purchased May 22 1977. Has the salesmans name and everything ! I am thinking to myself too cool ! It also came with get this a blank extra key ! But wait it gets better- as I am looking at the keys the other day wondering what places they have been to I got to looking at the key chain which I assumed was just some random keychain the Guy I got it off of had the keys on and low and behold I see this..... and it glows in the dark! Groovy or what?










Right On or what?    It would be cool to drive it back there if that place still exists and take a photo or 2

[scunny]

good score

[Thane]

awesome find, how many miles on her?

[sangyo soichiro]

Very cool!

[78whiteorbs]

Just over 18k- Weird thing with the tach guage- there is a small dead bee behind the glass. I am wondering to when self how did that little guy get there.... Much like the ships in the bottles of yester-years . Well after much pondering I figured it out. There is a very small hole behind the needle that is kind of hidden from site unless you look at an angle . Somehow he must have crawled through the back of it and in through there only to be trapped. I wonder which of the 34 years that happened. That be could have been alive long before I was born.  RPM guage- TOMB of the MUMMY BEE. Sounds like a Brendan Fraiser movie 

[Bob Wessner]

Nice find. It looks ike the dealer still exists. Check out www.flemingtonyamaha.com

[hoodellyhoo]

Just over 18k- Weird thing with the tach guage- there is a small dead bee behind the glass. I am wondering to when self how did that little guy get there.... Much like the ships in the bottles of yester-years . Well after much pondering I figured it out. There is a very small hole behind the needle that is kind of hidden from site unless you look at an angle . Somehow he must have crawled through the back of it and in through there only to be trapped. I wonder which of the 34 years that happened. That be could have been alive long before I was born.  RPM guage- TOMB of the MUMMY BEE. Sounds like a Brendan Fraiser movie 

Reminds me of when my family was helping tear down my grandpa's 1939 John Deere B. We took the crankcase breather off and sitting on top of the oil pump was a cricket encased in oil. Who knows ho many decades that cricket could have been sitting there!

very nice bike. I always prefered the look of the earlier models.

[CBJoe]

Very Nice..... especially for $500

Cant wait to finish building my '79 xs750.  Wont be done till spring if everything goes as planned.

Joe

[seaweb11]

Here ya go   http://www.flemingtonyamaha.com/

[78whiteorbs]

Nice- might send them a email

[BeSeeingYou]

They are great highway cruisers.  If I did not know any better I would say you came up to Minnesota and grabbed that bike.  An identical one with 6K just went for $1000 recently, a great price but $500 is even better. 

[78whiteorbs]

HA! Nah , that'd be a stretch . It came from SC and had 18k. Thinking about selling it now . it doesnt really suit my around town cruisin as well as I'd like. Very smooth on the highway though. The speedo is kinda slow though . Debating weither or not to take the paint key to it . Unlike hondas you can get at the guts of yammy speedos pretty easy by uncrimping the ring .  Hondas require teh dremel surgery   .