I just gave my 82 dang dang away to a guy that restores and rides. Hadn’t run sitting outside for over a decade, he had it running in an hour or so. He has it all spiffed up now, been maybe a month. Glad he put it back in order. I had years of fun on it from Glamis to hard rock desert riding, hot or cold no issues. Still kids... don’t try to start those wearing Vans, still cringe thinking of the kickback I got several times. It was great watching those two going at it, high tech wonder 500 and the old tech soldier 490!
i ride a modern day 450f but its so epic watching these old school 2 strokes go at it. they clear the track of all these 4 strokes at my local park and close it off specifically for the OG's. you couldnt keep up with them if you tried
@@snkneo-geo933 Any skilled rider or anyone who understands even the slightest bit about engines.... A 500 2 stroke has far more output than any 450 4 stroke. If you have to skill to put down that unpredictable power of the 2s than it's gonna smack the 4s out of the track
The guy on the 490 knew he could get him stayed behind the Honda to make him think the 490 was maxed until the end when he opened it up set the Honda guy up great race.
@benny smaller SHAFT - _"You dang right"_ . That's exactly what I told a Buddy of mine who's still riding (currently a '97 *YZ* *125* ), what I'd do to him if I got back on my stock (except for my custom chewy beige/yellow handlebar grips) '74 *Honda* *CR250* *Elsinore* . On a non-supercross flat-out track like that, I'll dull his visor with _mud & dust_ , Baby!
@@billrudolph8185 It's the rider not the bike. CR had a better power band than that era of YZ. Yamaha only did good in AMA for a while because the riders like Hannah
@@alienchaser636 sadly getting REALLY hard to find a decent rm500 anymore. I still see crs and the occasional kx and loads of 490s. Rarely see an RM500 on the market though. Great bikes. Might have even been faster than the cr.
@oldmazda2 ` One tiny wheelie makes him the faster rider? C'mon man, that 490 rider was clearly faster rider. But anyway I respect both of them and that was pretty darn entertaining race with 2 amazing bikes.
@7.3 DI Highboy I've been riding my whole life and rebuilding my whole life. The yz490. Is a 2t dumbass. Learn your shit before you try to insult someone.
All you folks commenting on the kinds of performance delivered by these engines need to remember, they tweaked the tuning and power curves regularly between releases, so a CR from one year may be way more peaky than one from a different year, and so-on.
The yz had no more gears left When it went up agenst THE ALL.MIGHTY C.R IT HAD A RAN OUT I BREATH TRYING TO CATCH THE C.R BUT LOST I KNOW IT WOULD CR.S PULL AND PULL NO EXCUSES YHE CR WAS THE BETTER BIKE
Drove a yz490 along time ago and didn't realize it was that fast till I drove it. Buddy's friend ended up flipping it on the hwy doing wheelies and twisted it all up and I think it ended up getting stripped for the motor and the rest junked
the Yamaha is a 1982/83 the cr500 a what 1989/90? you put a 1990 yz490 beside the cr500 a little different story I had both yz models a few years ago the newer 490 was twice the power..
Both of these dudes did a stellar job man handling those bikes, however, the guy on the Yamaha can ride the hell out of that bike, because the CR is the superior bike here, and the Yamaha pulled it off in the end.... WOW!
grande. me emosione me iso acordar de mi RM 125. AGUATERA. respeten los colores honda roja. suzuki amariya yamaha azul cawa verde. en la tercer buelta la hoda le varrio la pista a la suzuki. se afilmo y le arrevato la carrera a la honda. y paracuando la cawa vrs yamaha .
I had one of these yamahas back in the day, my bike never got beat, you gotta spend alotta time on jetting the carb, the older yamaha has only 4 speed, that why that honda was beaten him up, win u get these bikes jetted just right, an timing advance a lil, it will do close to 100 mph.
Man that is some fun shit,rite Dere I could do that all day,riding against one of your friends all day...gets some good racing.I was waiting for them to hit that table top....hah hah
sometimes in racing you can have too much horsepower and the YZ proved that....and the CRs wheelie off the line gives you an idea of how much more HP it has by the rider pulling the wheelie and still accelerating away.... but something to think about the CR has a power to weight ratio of 600hp per ton....(60hp-100kg) at best a HSV commodore has 556hp for its1800kg of dead weight , just think about that for a minute...
I call the 490 86 or later with the 5 speed...im going light...i feel a twitch coming on so bring on your heavy ass cr or kx..i may not come back alive or in one piece but promise you will not be the first over that finish line
Yeah was trying that on my 490 on a dry lake but the tire kept biting Standing me up. Lots of room to recover luckily. Props to those guys that do it. I wasn’t in 4th either, was third cause tall gearing
I love the big CR500 but the dude on the YZ490 I think if he had taken that inside line an held on the throttle a bit longer he would have got em...or stayed with em anyway.... The YZ490 is a beast! But so is the CR500R... The honda held the championship in the pro open class for almost 7yrs till they stopped making big bore 2 strokes... So the Honda went out on top...
i have has every year 490 the 82 with the right mods very fast motor horrible handling the 89 great motor suspension could be made acceptable. great bike. i rode the 89 every weekend and usually a couple days of the week after work for 2 years. never touched engine
@@mathewsharp233 wow how"d you find that? It def looks like the same track. I paused it at 1:08 and compared the tires and red cones. Thanx for the effort mate. It reminded me of a track i rode in Darwin.
@@aximusroh6453 that story is a bit confusing, which track is it mentions different events but not what track is in the picture, as far as I know Raymond Terrace only has a motocross track, I live not far away it used to be called Barleigh Ranch.Edit-picture in article must be at Barleigh Ranch
