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Marketplace => eBay Finds => Topic started by: steveo247 on September 05, 2011, 01:35:10 pm

Title: YZ500
Post by: steveo247 on September 05, 2011, 01:35:10 pm

ok well its not really but it sure is nice..!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1992-Yamaha-YZ500-WR500-YZ490-EVO-Motocross-AHRMA-MX-/230668920322?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item35b4f06602#v4-39

Title: Re: YZ500
Post by: popeye on September 05, 2011, 05:08:33 pm

Pity we dont have a class to race it in, nice bike just the same..

Title: Re: YZ500
Post by: Marc.com on September 05, 2011, 06:41:17 pm

Hmm I think that was the year I kicked off the WR500 as a hopeless joke of a motorcycle and bought WR250 .... I think that Frankenbike is step backward.

Title: Re: YZ500
Post by: mustanggrahame on September 05, 2011, 08:09:58 pm

Sprung for a 225/250 lb rider? They bred them big over in the US of A.
Cheers, Grahame

Title: Re: YZ500
Post by: popeye on September 05, 2011, 08:20:21 pm

Dont no much about them, were they that bad?

Title: Re: YZ500
Post by: Slakewell on September 05, 2011, 08:28:35 pm

I had a trick 92 WR250 , I think that was about my peak , I won more big races on that bike than any others , The main thing on that bike when I lined up I knew if I didn't win I just wasn't twisting the wire enough.

Title: Re: YZ500
Post by: Big John on September 05, 2011, 09:47:37 pm

A mate had a WR500 I rode it a bit, compaired to a CR or KX 500 they were a bit behind the times. I think Yamaha were just using up old stock. They didn't have a wide ratio gearbox like the 200 and 250, they were basicly the same YZ490 motor from the early 80s. I still have a 92 WR250. I get it out the bush a few times a year, all the boys on the new 450 hang shit on it, being a ratty looking old bike, but she still keeps up and does what it has to.

Title: Re: YZ500
Post by: Marc.com on September 06, 2011, 06:28:12 am

Quote from: Big John on September 05, 2011, 09:47:37 pm

A mate had a WR500 I rode it a bit, compaired to a CR or KX 500 they were a bit behind the times. I think Yamaha were just using up old stock. They didn't have a wide ratio gearbox like the 200 and 250, they were basicly the same YZ490 motor from the early 80s. I still have a 92 WR250.

there was a mint WR250 came up the other day and I wanted it bad... awesome bike, I had 3 of them when I was at my fastest, they never broke unlike RMXs and KDXs and just did everything well. WR500 was not a patch on the YZ490s I had but they were all cranky beasts compared to a CR500. WR500 had no bottom end, plenty of mid range but would not rev out which made it a pile in the whoops. Robbie Twyerold worked over my motor which made it much better, but nowhere as good as a CR500 or RM500 for that matter.