1980 Yamaha YZ125 

Anthony Bressler sweet! I had the 78 yz80 and an 82 YZ 125

Paul Watson Cool my friend had the 77 yz80.

Yeah that's so true about the rich kid thing. My dad had a yz 60 growing up and he said it was awesome! Nowadays a ktm 65 $4999 msrp! Love the old Yamaha At, Ct, Dt, It, and Yz!

Just to stare at it. Lol ......u made me laugh

Nope, you are a few years off. It was the 1986 production rule, (forced on the industry and USA only by the FIM), where bikes really started going up in price, and it hurt the market share quite a bit. From 86 to 91, the bikes tripled in price compared to 85, and leveled out at about 5 grand until the EPA forced the 4-stroke on the industry. It is outside intervention (governments) that damage every industry free people built. My 2019 YZ250 2-stroke is more refined than my 1982 YZ250, but technology is not much more advanced. I have better suspension and better center of mass, the little brother YZM 1988 works bike aluminum frame, (see, Yamaha did not stop making works bikes in 1986 either), and a powerjet carb. I started racing in 1984 with no parental support and for the next 8 years, (I did only race about 6 times a year, but rode a lot every summer), making $4.00-$8.00 over the span of that 8 years, and earned a small college degree at the same time.

I believe you are referring to 1976 when Bob Hannah was riding a water cooled works OW 125. Honda had their new type 2 works bike but Marty smith only rode it for 3 races before they stopped using it because they thought they would lose it because of the claiming rule.

Back in 1990, a good buddy of mine and I were racing the 1988 CR250's. We also went trail riding with another guy he knew, an 85 year old man on a XR250 named Howard Ferguson. He was not fast, (sans freeway off ramps, to pass people, on our way to a pro MX race one day), but he was doing it.

Did you race at Canyon?

Rick Shum wow I had the 1979 YZ 80 f & purchased The CR 480 RC & never looked back 😈🤘

@@anttonydamico2578 Nice ! And I actually had a 1976 YZ 80, outgrew it and sold it to my cousin. I bought the cr480r in 1984 as I left over still in the crate and paid $1,500 for it back then. Kept it a number of years and sold it for $500. :(

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@@KaplanCycles , thank you I must not have bought it when I thought I did.... I think I bought it in the later part is 79 or early 80s.... Anyway I rode the shit out of it until I lost interest in it..... I know I paid $1,000 out the door for it.....

The monoshock first came out on the factory bikes in 1973,Hakkon Anderson won the World 250 Championship of that year, they were introduced on their production bikes in 1975, i had a YZ 250B 1975 with a monshock , it was orsome! It and the Ossa 250 Phantom were the best 250's of that year.

I bought the 79 125 new in 1980 for $850.00. I made $1.00/hr part time at my Dad's store from 10 to 16 years old and bought 3 brand new bikes in that time for about that price. The YZ125 was the most expensive by $50.00. That is why the sport was 10 times bigger back then, (and we could ride anywhere).

It's stock. Most bikes were 12" of travel front and rear in 1979/1980. The 12" standard was set then for production bikes. From 1968 (MX introduced to the USA from Europe), to 1979/1980, suspension travel went form about 3" to 12" of travel. It still took over a decade to get them working good.

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