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Offline Lozza

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Yamaha YZM 500
« on: August 17, 2007, 09:49:54 AM »
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??????
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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2007, 10:26:40 AM »
was that the works MX bike with the power valve circa 82' ? they looked the goods back then.
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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2007, 12:50:06 PM »
Lozza - if the one I am thinking of it was awesome - can you post a photo?

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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2007, 06:37:36 PM »
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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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2007, 06:41:57 PM »
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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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2007, 04:08:30 PM »
Here's some pics I have:



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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2007, 06:31:56 PM »
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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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2008, 07:08:44 PM »
Here is another one of the YZM



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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2008, 09:43:20 PM »
does anyone have any photos of the earlier aircooled version?

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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2008, 07:18:28 AM »
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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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2008, 09:57:47 AM »
I have some I scan and post them a bit later
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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2008, 06:54:55 PM »
ask and ye shall recieve


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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2008, 06:56:04 PM »
like the way I blacked out the hideous rc500 that snuck into the corner of the second shot ;D
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Re: Yamaha YZM 500
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2008, 09:18:44 PM »
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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