The other day having a chat with an old yamaga RD350 friend, we happen to discuss latest happening in other parts of world on RD350/400. Most we turned down as impractical/impossible/too costly. Apart from jettin problems we cudnt find much fault with factory fitments. We discussed some pretty weird ideas, from advanced timings (and running the risk of holed pistons!!) to Nitrogen cheat i.e try to fix a CPU fan inside air filter box operated with a switch after bike cross over to 90 Kmph, and boost up the air intake, steel wire mashed brake pads (ruin the drum evem more faster) so lets sattle for slashed pads that will flow out thesmall debries to the outside of drum and the slashing will provide some sort of self cleaning and better stopping.

But one thing we both sattled down for was the issue of reboring time and again, since RD cylinders need re-boring often given the inherent nature of hig compression and faster wear n tear it also means considerable expenses time and again+ human hours involved to get things done on a bike like this. We debated over the issue of hard chroming the cylinders for more longer lasting piston life and more maintainability of having to run the same bore for longer time. I invite your comments and suggestions about this. I will try to give more input to it next time. in the meanwhile lets see what is your opinion.. thanx