Yamaha's Motocross Models A Visual History 1970-2021 

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my friend had one, it wouldn't even move unless you screamed it. then it moved!

@@johnnyofast5924Had a 74 MX100 myself, and it did tend to take off in the upper rpm range. Funniest memory with that bike was right after I graduated from high school (79') and due to my physical conditioning (from track & cross country) and having enough hours on it to be comfortable in the upper rpm range, I was able to give a 75 CR125 Elsinore fits on a track. Good memories on it.

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Thank you for you kind words

You bet!

Different colors for different countries, when the USA 🇺🇸 were getting yellow and black the UK 🇬🇧 were getting red n white/white and black for early yz.

Same here in Australia , in 1982 the Yamaha's were white with a red seat , the earlier couple of models were white with a black seat. Most of my friends had the 1982 YZ80J .

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I plan to do it in the future but I have not done it yet

Nope here. Never had a bike I could not start by using the kick start. Those good old reliable 2-stroke bikes,---gotta love em. Your story tells me it was worth paying $3,000 less to ride more. :)

Here in the states, the 82's were still yellow & black, I had 3 of them. 1 was left stock, 1 was a practice bike & the other was my race bike...I sure wish I had held onto 1 of them. I still remember the manual, I can picture it like I saw it last month. My 1st bike was the 78 YZ80J which was a great bike for the most part...but the 82 changed everything, that thing ripped even before having my dads mechanics build the race bike, I could hardly hold onto it at 1st. My brother would ride my stock one when we went up to our cabin & he would constantly foul the plug, having me to ride ahead, get a new plug etc. My dad finally got so mad & asked me why he kept fouling the plug & I had to tell him that he rode it like a girl & wouldn't run the powerband. My dad was a NHRA racer & understood, he lit into my brother & told him to ride it like it's supposed to be ridden or don't ride it at all. He didn't ride much after that other than this old 3 wheeler we had that only went like 30mph. lolol

No it was sold as a off-road machine with an oversize tank and wide ratio transmission

The Motocross Vault but Bradshaw did race it, correct?

@@chadkimmel8957Yes he did..

History in the making, like Germany taking over Poland. It amazes me how many people don't understand that the 4-stroke being forced on the industry has hurt the industry more than any other single thing that has ever happened in it. The 1986 production rule is a close second. I am talking about bike sales, peoples involvement in the industry,---and control of the industry. Don't get me wrong. I have seen the evolution of this sport from almost it's beginning and could buy a new bike when I was 12. I also port small 2-stroke engines for a living today, (because of this sport), and I know the way a 4-stroke makes power, hooks up to the ground really good. History will show it is outside influences that has killed this sport, at least for the masses. According to bike sales compared to the 70's and early 80's, the sport is 9/10ths dead already. The industry should have rejected the 4-stroke, because it was not "free market" friendly. It is very possible to price a product out of existence, when outside forces are involved. But more to your point, Doug Henry said it was always a 426, (I never checked the bore and stroke specs myself for the 1998 YZ400), and even though the FIM would not let 2-strokes over bore to be competitive with the faster 4-stroke, (the tool, faster, they used to get 2-strokes off a competitive starting line), it still took 8 years for the pro starting line to be 100% 4-strokes, (with RC and James being about the last,---and still winning on the 2-strokes). The price is the biggest problem, and it always will be with such intervention in any industry. The outside intervention also makes it harder for a new manufacture to compete,---if there ever is a new one again. If we understand what happened, history will show we messed up, as does the present.

@@EarthSurferUSA clean green gay electric ain’t far off ...it will sign off petrol power for good

Thank you very much I’ll still be doing those this was just something a little different

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how do you slow playback speeds?