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1969 Yamaha L5T
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BG there’s one listed on EBay in Wisconsin
23 Sep 2023 18:41
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I am in Swift Current sk and I have a complete L5 running The choke thumb lever is broken other than that all is good electrical system all works including signals and horn It has the original seat and the chrome rear rack,
2500 bucks Doug
2500 bucks Doug
24 Sep 2023 22:58
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HERE ARE PICSHERE ARE PICS
11 Oct 2023 16:45
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Every model of 80cc or 100cc from the very first model in the early "60's if a trail bike!! [like we sold as farm bikes] all have very tame cylinder porting & rotary valve duration compared to the road version of the identical motor [motors].
Road versions went like a rocket.
The only time that comment fails is when we got one lot of road 100's imported from Taiwan [yamy 100 L2G] & had a locking fuel cap plus the end of the muffler was angle cut [call it slash cut]. Those things were snails compared to previous year & customers complained so i suspect the motors were in trail configuration.
Sorry that's not solving anything on this post but thought i'd throw it in.
Oh--& burn out the exhaust & check the port right up to the piston as can grow carbon in there too.
Many a small motor in the old days we had to remove carbon right at the piston at the port edge.
Funny story [well maybe not funny] but we had an old guy on a YG1T who was a bit different but a nice old guy.
He had a small church built on the back of his 80cc Landscout. He'd travel the country preaching & spreading 'the word'. I'm not knocking that & sort of admired him in my own way & i'm sure there was a life story there.
Anyhoo-- he'd called in once a year to work, or maybe longer duration [Yamy shop].
This particular time it would barely dragged itself down the road & exhaust plus up the port was chokka with carbon.
So after fixing that [& probably unsticking piston rings]. When he headed off he damn near had the front wheel off the ground as used to giving it full song & getting knowhere. Wonder what happened to him.
Just to add. All our models were magneto ignition so no starter generator or electrical charging drag going on.
Road versions went like a rocket.
The only time that comment fails is when we got one lot of road 100's imported from Taiwan [yamy 100 L2G] & had a locking fuel cap plus the end of the muffler was angle cut [call it slash cut]. Those things were snails compared to previous year & customers complained so i suspect the motors were in trail configuration.
Sorry that's not solving anything on this post but thought i'd throw it in.
Oh--& burn out the exhaust & check the port right up to the piston as can grow carbon in there too.
Many a small motor in the old days we had to remove carbon right at the piston at the port edge.
Funny story [well maybe not funny] but we had an old guy on a YG1T who was a bit different but a nice old guy.
He had a small church built on the back of his 80cc Landscout. He'd travel the country preaching & spreading 'the word'. I'm not knocking that & sort of admired him in my own way & i'm sure there was a life story there.
Anyhoo-- he'd called in once a year to work, or maybe longer duration [Yamy shop].
This particular time it would barely dragged itself down the road & exhaust plus up the port was chokka with carbon.
So after fixing that [& probably unsticking piston rings]. When he headed off he damn near had the front wheel off the ground as used to giving it full song & getting knowhere. Wonder what happened to him.
Just to add. All our models were magneto ignition so no starter generator or electrical charging drag going on.
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There were a couple like that running around town and up in bush where I grew up in British Columbia. I equated that tank shape with the street bikes, but really liked the wider, more flat version on my bike. In our town you were basically a Yammie (zing zing) fan or a Honda rider. That was what we had for dealerships. There were a way more Yamaha's. Mostly RD250 and RD350 cc street bikes. A few BSA's and Triumphs that no one took seriously- they could not keep them on the road. The guys that bought a Honda Four when they arrived were pretty disappointed when they found that the RD's could wax their....Anyway, I traded my L5T for a Kawasaki A7 350 Avenger. Big mistake. The Avenger was really, really quick and fast, but it did not corner worth a darn, and I lived in a world of corners. It did not like the logging roads to my fishing holes either.I still long for that L5T. One day soon...
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What colour? Mileage? Pictures? I am new here, is thee a way to private message an email or phone number?
13 Oct 2023 01:36
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