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Clubroom => Bike Talk => Topic started by: Lozza on August 17, 2007, 09:49:54 am
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While flicking through a US mag with lots of back in the day shots(including a youthful Ediie Lawson lining up for an mx race) was a pic of the Yamaha YZM 500.Was it any good or the overly stiff,top heavy tank it look to be??????
Yamaha freaks over to you
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was that the works MX bike with the power valve circa 82' ? they looked the goods back then.
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Lozza - if the one I am thinking of it was awesome - can you post a photo?
Rossco
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from memory.the yzm500 was campaigned in the 87 and 88 world championships gp.there was only two of them and both were ridden by kurt ljungvist and jacky vimond.never won a world championship but they did turn heads because of there exotica...alloy frame and water cooling...wish there was one sitting in the shed ;D
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i am sure there was earlier aircooled models as well as i remember a YZM500 poster in the Yamaha dealer i used to go too !
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Here's some pics I have:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/zorroz/julymxa87.jpg)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/zorroz/1988_YZM20500_2_750.jpg)
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nice bike :P does anyone know why they dissolved the team at the end of the 88 season..might be because they heard the flying freckle was on his way over to the honda team...but on a more serious note i reckon they couldve used that same bike in the 500 class for the next ten years with only minor changes and probably might have got a title or two...
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Here is another one of the YZM
(http://www.vmx.com.au/images/om_yzm500.jpg)
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does anyone have any photos of the earlier aircooled version?
Rossco
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i'm after pics of that too Ross. i think Geraldo may have had the original YZM500 aircooled promo poster from early eighties. i have done a few web searches but could not find it.
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I have some I scan and post them a bit later
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ask and ye shall recieve
(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn38/mainline_bucket/IMG_0001.jpg)
(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn38/mainline_bucket/IMG_0002.jpg)
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like the way I blacked out the hideous rc500 that snuck into the corner of the second shot ;D
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leif persson also rode the yzm watercooled 500
in 1987 it was a beautiful bike
a real holeshot king 8)
there is a yamaha dealer in europe
who have a block of aluminium on
display its a melted down yzm500 water cooled doh! :'( :'(
they could have kept it and given it to me ;D
these bikes are true works of art all handmade mmmmmmm
even if you did not like yammys
you would like these ;)
i think ther maybe 2 left in the world of the watercoolers :'( :'(
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There's some more pics here
http://www.robandrewsmx.com/article.php?id=109
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OK here's a question which will either test the memory or prove that I am losing my marbles. Was there an earlier aircolled YZ 500 works bike before this - when did the 500 come out? I seem to have this thought in my head that around the early 80's Yamaha bought out their first works 500 when still selling 490's - if I remember correctly it looked so much like Gallys YZ featured on the front of VMX mag?
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Rossco
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Rossco,
The one you maybe thinking of is the OW that gally campaigned in about '81 I think, it had a cantilever rear end, with a aircooled/powervalved donk....and drum brakes.
I'm not sure why Yamaha factory bikes went from being designated OW's to YZM's.
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Yes there was an earlier one rossco. i remember a Yamaha Promo poster from about 1982/83 of a works YZM500 aircooled & powervalved. it was stuck on the wall of my local dealer back then. it had to be that era as i was buying parts for my YZ250J then.
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yes someone has posted a photo of the earlier air cooled YZM on here before
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can you remember the thread Leith?
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hoony ol mate i sent you an email of a 84 model yzm500 aircooled job about twelve months ago... :)
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I have got one of the Yamaha promo posters of the 1st air cooled YZM500's , its quite faded , took it into the local copy centre to get them to scan it and then manipulate it digitally to bring back the colour but it sat there for months and they hadn't done it . have retrieved it and will try to find somewhere that will do it . will try to post the pic up on this forum (if I can learn how)
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i think it was on the old forum. i searched 'yzm 500' but couldnt find it. someone here must still have the photo
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this must be the thread
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=598.0
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(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-4/1252864/CarlasYZM500.jpg)
This is a picture of Carlqvist's bike .
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hoony ol mate i sent you an email of a 84 model yzm500 aircooled job about twelve months ago... :)
yeah you did andrew, but i can't remember where i put it on the hard drive, i will find it though!
hows the air and water Big 5 Oh's going? you need to update us in a post mate !
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YZM 500 pics here
http://www.simnet.is/skulitho/OBB/index.html
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Here is a picture of Carlqvist in action .