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written by Andrew Preece


There are many strange things about motorcycling: for instance I had owned a Triumph 900 Sprint
from new for six years. A fabulous beast of a bike with a lusty and tuneful triple engine at
the heart of it�s appeal, but something was missing. Can�t really put my finger on it, but the
link between the big Triumph and me simply had not been forged. The result of this was less
than 3,000 miles covered in those years and when somebody came along and offered me a
reasonable price for her I took it. Now what is worse than having a bike that you haven�t
�clicked� with? That�s right, having no bike at all!
An old mate pointed out an add in UBG for an SRX400, it was a local number so what the hell?
Before I knew it a 1986 Yamaha SRX400 grey import was sitting where once my mighty Triumph had
resided. So a 16 year old (and somewhat frayed around the edges), single was to be summer
machine. The bloke selling it had wanted over �800 but after a bit of haggling we settled on a
price somewhere well south of that! So my superbike was gone, but there was a smile on my face,
Like I said, biking can be a strange thing.

The SRX 400 is a light and nimble almost caf� racer style of road bike, with more than a whiff
of �spot the RD common cycle parts� about it. Its heart is a lovely single developed from the
XT500 lineage, which is superb around town, and also the twisty lanes."