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Yamaha's big two stroke is an improvement
over the YR-1.
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A quick look at Yamaha's touring 250 for 1974.
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Yamaha plays effective one-upsmanship without resorting to extra sparkplugs and an electric starter.
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Persistent development and an honest-to-God
race pedigree have yielded a motorcycle that is as splendid as it is
specialized. An expert's motorcycle in every sense of the word, it is a
superbike—that simply happens to be short.
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Portrait of a racer-replica--a water-cooled
two-stroke engine and Monoshock rear suspension in the RD that dreams are made
of.
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You don't have to own one-piece leathers and
fancy boots and hotsy-totsy zip-back gloves to feel like a racer. All you need
is a darting road and this cat-quick Yamaha.
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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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Another smoothie from Yamaha's new crop of super-sophisticated four-strokes.
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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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Yamaha XS Eleven Venturer (1981) |
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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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