Test Articles
Ever wondered how the Hodaka Super Wombat fared when it was fresh from the crate?
Did the Honda CBX really use technology from the NR500? Was the Maico 490 Alpha's reputation
really deserved?
Wonder no longer, bike tests (sometimes) tell the story.
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The last of the red-hot two-strokes.
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Yamaha's new economical street commuter is
now very competitively priced and has the looks and spirit of the bigger
RD-series bombs.
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The combination of reed valves and 360cc means instant power.
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In exchange for lack of speed, you get a bike
that’s tricky to start. But it’s worth it.
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The four-stroke single-cylinder roadster
returns – and demonstrates, even as 1980 looms ahead, that a good thing is a
timeless thing.
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Slightly sedate street sled sizzles in the
esses.
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A low-calorie, lightweight playbike that's
fat on fun.
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Plan For The Future, Yamaha Reintroduces
The 500cc Four-Stroke Single.
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Another smoothie from Yamaha's new crop of super-sophisticated four-strokes.
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Think Ultimate Overkill for the street.
Picture Massive Retaliation on endless lines of slow-moving traffic. Imagine
blowing highway dawdlers back into the Stone Age. See a street-going TZ750:
looks like a bumblebee, stings like a B-52.
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Showdown with the fastest roadracer around.
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Eight Years Of Refinement Later, Yamaha's
Chrome And Flash V-Twin Is Japan's Most Polished Cruiser And Its Best
Performing.
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The Sabre-jet smile hides a killer’s instinct
for hunting apexes.
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Designed to handle the Interstates.
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This isn't a motorcycle. It's a time machine!
Just turn that thing on the right end of the handlebar and everything else seems
to slow down and freeze.
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When you've said "XS" you've said it all.
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Smooth, comfortable and
luxurious, the eight-valve twin-cylinder XS500D demonstrates that $1550 still
buys an extra-ordinary motorcycle in these days of light and airy dollars.
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The XS1 is a mount for the guy who doesn't go
for 750-and-up multis or the 350 that turns 10- jillion revs on the Interstate.
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This streeter is one of the best.
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Line leadership at Yamaha belongs to the 650…
a tall order for a vertical twin.
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