Yamaha WR's

[Danger]

Arrghh!

Looks like its going to work this time! First race meet holeshot, TT600 1984.

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This is my '87 YZ250, don't have a pic of my '86 on my PC.

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Heres the bike I learned to ride on. A Kawasaki. Back in the days when you could ride a bike on a public beach and no one cared. This is at Snells beach while on holiday. Rode up and down the beach every evening until dark.
By the way, this bike belonged to Andy Lewis, now manager of Red Baron Motorcycles.

[cheese]

Ha ha Awesome one Greg!! Showing your age a bit though!!! LOL

The Old IT's were funny bike, chain on the wrong side........

I think that the older bikes like the IT490's were so god dam scary cause they didn't have the power valves so when you hit the power band it was like an explosion of power trying to rip your amrs out of there sockets! that was one of the big things I found with the difference on the RM compaired to the likes of my brothers old KDX250 and my old IT175. That bike was gold until I had some retard rebuild it and he managed to bend the crank and it chewed the shit out of the bearing housing. then the high rev coil had a wire pop off so it would only rev to 1/3 of it's possible revs. Man it was so annoying trying to jump a bike that putts out!! It took so long to find that too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the old bikes were great, you could just ride them and drop them without a worry, now I shit mself every time cause I think I'm going to bugger my radiators!!!!!!

[trevorg]

I think the only IT with the chain on the wrong side was the IT200. Correct me if I'm wrong, but our IT250 and 465 both have their chains on the right side.

[Ixion]

No, I think they're on the left side

[GR81]

what's the difference between a WR and YZ?

[Motu]

There was certainly one if the small motors with the chain on the right,because they were popular with the kart guys - and there were always YZ's and IT's minus motors going cheap.But it was a mission to put anything else into them....graft another swing arm I think.

WR - wide ratio,for enduro's.

[cheese]

WR's also had a heavier flywheel so it didn't stall as easy and was made more to a detuned standard unlike the YZ which is made to either be going full throttle or stopping.

[trevorg]

The link in the first post doesn't work anymore. Go to http://www.tygi.us and click on the bikes page. I'll get some IT's on there soon.