Yamaha

TX750 Yamaha – Cafe racer

Nice build. If I had $2k and I liked this engine more I’d go buy it. Clean and nothing over the top. For Sale Locally.  No I don’t know the bike or the owner.

Yamaha SR500 Street Tracker.

As a recently converted thumper fan, this looks like a LOT of fun.

My kind of day… A sweet Ride. A great Bike show. A (bonus) car show! And more riding! Stay tuned for lots more!

Got up early and took the newly plated RZ for a beautiful ride down to Riding Into History…

which had a great turnout…

and this years theme was Japanese bikes.  THE Wayne Rainey GPZ 750 met us at the gate.


On my way back, I decided to the long, scenic way home through Old St Augustine and I stumbled on a classic car show!! Sweet!

Much more on all of this on its way shortly. Right now I need a nap.

A flawless Yamaha XT600. One of my favorite classic dualsports.

It funny because I was thinking of this very bike just the other day. At around the same time that Suzuki was designing the DR650 that’s been in continuous presence in American showrooms since 1998 (virtually unchanged) Yamaha had a serious competitor already on the market. It kills me that they surrendered the market to Suzuki so easily. This was a fantastic bike! I’m equally as pissed that they never brought its descendant, the Tenere 660, here either. WAKE up Yamaha! There are some of out here who love ADV thumpers! You’ve once again surrendered the market. This time to BMW and KTM. Damm shame…

Anyway..

A shoutout to Paul King for these shots. She’s a real beauty. Take good care of her!

Paul writes in:

SHHHHHH, IT THINKS IT’S A BMW GS.

Hi,
My name is Paul King, from Colorado.
I’m an avid viewer of your site.
Thought you might like at couple of shots of my ‘just assembled’ current ride.
It’s a 1994 Yamaha XT 600 with only 3,000 miles on it.
After cleaning it up, I added my personalizing accessories
to make it an adventure tourer.
Windshield, hot grips, aluminum panniers, bars, etc.

P.S. I rode one prepared like this to Alaska a few years ago.

Great stuff. Thanks Paul! And if you take this one on any adventures remember to send in some pics!

Sweet All original RD350

Paul Nisanth sends in his excellent old 2 stroker.

Hi
This is my 1974 Yamaha RD 350. 8400 orgnial miles.I bought from ebay.When I bought it was sitting in a stotage for 15 yrs.

With appreciation to my readers! Some cool motorcycle assembly line videos.

The GM video prompted some great comments with links to more motorcycle related videos.  John shared this Yamaha video and as an old Yamaha fanatic this one reeeealy gets my attention.  Fantastic stuff! Thank you John!

Follow up on a spectacular XS650 Tracker.

Thanks to Andreas Mikkelsen for the follow up pictures to this post that had a nice video cataloging the build. Great shots by the way.

An XS650 chop I actually like.

I’m on record as saying that waaaay to many folks are chopping up waaay too many nice XS650’s and that most of them are a waste of time. For reasons I can’t really explain, I kinda like this one. shrug..

Here is some info on my 1978 Yamaha xs 650. Custom built by Jay @ vintagecustoms.
Modified “brat” frame, shock mounts moved up & forward, xs500 neck & trees, xs650 forks
Frame painted with black base, gold flake, PPG clear-coat
New Monza style 11.5″ shocks
16″ aluminum xs rear wheel with Mooneyes disks, custom cut
New Shinko rear tire
21″ Honda CR250 front wheel
New Avon Speedmaster front tire
Custom made seat
Vintage Kawasaki 100 tank
Honda Trials Headlight with new H7 bulb
Unknown vintage fender
PPG Silver base with silver flake, H.O.K. Pegan Gold Candy with Gold Flake & H.O.K. Root Beer Candy with Root Beer Red Flake, all sealed with PPG clear.
New AGM battery
New vintage style cloth covered wiring
New control levers
New Schwinn Metal-flake Gold grips
Fully rebuilt Mid 70’s motor with late model factory TCI ignition & XS performance carbs (honed cylinders, new rings, lapped valves, new valve seals, new oil filters, all new gaskets, etc.)
Custom fabricated: handlebars, headlight bracket, exhaust pipes, fork covers & misc mounts and brackets.