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Offline steveo247

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YZ500
« on: September 05, 2011, 01:35:10 pm »
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Re: YZ500
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2011, 05:08:33 pm »
Pity we dont have a class to race it in, nice bike just the same..
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« Reply #2 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.
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Re: YZ500
« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2011, 08:20:21 pm »
Dont no much about them, were they that bad?
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Re: YZ500
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: YZ500
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: YZ500
« Reply #7 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.



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