My first pick is the 1985.....Getting the cool Euro candy cane colors with the gold anodized rims was mind blowing. Throw in the BASS Ohlins replica shock and the fact that RJ and Broc were riding them, nothing else was even close! Great video keep them coming!
You bring back a lot of old memories. I grew up in the 60's and 70's. When I got my 75' Honda Elsinore 125, 1st time I road it and hit the powerband, I was hanging off the back of the bike. 1st year of the "6 speed" transmission. Beautiful bike! It had a "mud flap" lol
I was just a few years behind you, with my first MX bike being a 78 YZ100, (I had a couple of trail bikes before). You mentioned your front fender flap of the early Elsi. I now remember that wide front fender on the YZ, much wider than my previous trail bikes, and how well the kept the dirt from my tire flying up in my face. In fact, a freind of mine at the time took it for a ride, and mentioned the same thing, after we talked about the power. :)
my 85 YZ80 was my first motocross bike my first bike was a ty80 trials.. and yes I remember renting the dirtbike kid several times and driving my parents nuts with it..
Even the blue is shitty not a yz unless its yellow and cool looking back then its simple Yz yamaha..red honda cr Kawasaki is green the should of left it
It will get to the point where Way over priced to advanced.people will stop buying them unless your a motocrosser that all there good for race it shut it off When a 125 costs 5000 plus .sonetjing is realy wrong That's just gouging
Here in Canada, we had the black and yellow YZ's like the US until 1981, when they switched Canadian YZ's to red and White in 1981. My first real race bike was a red/white 1981 YZ 125. I had the pleasure of racing a 1991 YZ 250 - loved that bike and wish I still had it!
My first bike after a YZinger was an 81 yz 60. I loved that thing. I then got a kx 60 and Team Green ride after getting bronze in the Florida Winter Olympics and winning district and state championships that year
Top 3 YZ250's for me... #1 : 1990 YZ250WR - Same bike as my #2 (w/minor power train changes) but blue instead of red, and absolutely LOVED the blue anodized forks #2 : 1990 YZ250 - Just an absolutely beautiful design #3 : 1981 YZ250 - Loved the old school Speed Block Yellow and 81 is a good representative, and I now have a 2016 Yamaha XSR900 in the same colors :-)
I wish i still had all the 1980's Japanese two stroke bikes i used to own from 80's to 250's. I would have had a nice collection! These are fantastic video's and bringing back some great memory's!
Thank you for all of your awesome videos, in my opinion the best looking YZ would be a tie between a 1983 and a 1984, the yellow and black is where it's at as far as looks goes in my book but I do also like the red and white quite a bit on the 85s and up.
Oh, I would not be surprised if more often than not, because we have such a deep connection with dirt bikes, we will say that the best MX bike ever,----is the first one we ever owned. I swear, I could kick Hannah's but on my 78 YZ100! I had the 79 YZ125 next though. It was OK. :) But in reality, after I get this 2019 YZ250 2-stroke set up the way I want, it will be the best bike I ever owned. Doug in Michigan.
But I hate the plastic, and am watching this vid to see what earlier front fender I could put on it. Today's weird plastic,---is the art departments fault IMO. I am not into adding "art" with no added function.
The worst looking bikes to me are every orange KTM. The only KTM that was good looking to me was the "one off" 125 MX bike Horst Lietner built for them as a prototype. They never came out with it, and it never lit a fire under the engineers. That was one great looking bike.
85' KX's were awesome 80cc and 125.....But they were really unreliable despite how great they ran...I had an 87' kx80 and it was true to the reputation of great running and bad reliability...Change out the soft rubber transmission oil plug and change levers, bars, and high quality bolt kit and it's good to go..The stock bolts are horrible...Thumbs up..That's a video I'd like see too.
The first bike I was on when I was young was the 1986 yellow and black YZ80.. It was extremely fun and fast! It was also a little bit scary!! as a kid when that powerband kicked in.. you'd have to be up on the gas tank.. I think it went 80mph!? lol
Great choices . I had the 1983 yz 250 , which , to me .... was a beautiful machine. Then the 84's especialy the YZ490 . Sweet looking ! Huh ... Then the 88's & 89's with the blue instead of the red. .... I think thats when they came out with the wide ratio yz's , the WR's.......
Man... I cannot believe you don’t like bikes from the 70’s... or especially from the 80’s!!! The 80’s were the fastest moving development freight train in the history of the sport. It all kind of peaked when the works bikes were outlawed.... I guess it’s also a factor of age or history in the sport. Shocks and disturbs me a little I gotta say. Love your videos and what you’re doing anyway👍😜
Never been a Yamaha fan, but a very good pick. I never liked the big shroud on one side on the 88-93 so that would not entre my list, and I prefer the 96 over the 97. Nice video, I enjoy them all !!!
Amazing content as always, I just picked up what looks to be a 1989 yz250, but it has a purple lavender original frame color, I am trying to find pictures from this bike stock but I only find white frames bikes, Any thought on what I have here? where can I find pictures and data? Thank you in advance.
Hi I,ll never forget when the j came out in Oz red and white I was around 12 years old. the 80 was 999 bucks back then way out of my reach I had an old 80c I usually had to push home it was clapped out I didn't know diddle about it I used to have the j brochure stuck to my bed head I would stare at it for hours wishing for one . It was weird for us Aussies to see black and yellow ones from the USA they looked a bit like RM,s the good old days
92' head shake and honda...lol...I raced Honda's in 91' and 92'..The head shake was downright scary coming down a bumpy straight especially late moto with some arm pump...great video brings back some memories...
I agree, the 2000-2014 YZ250 design looks !!way!! better than the 2015+ design. I have a brand new 2019 YZ250 in my garage but I recently purchased a 2004 model and rebuild it to factory new condition. I like the look of the 2002-2004 very much and the 2004 is the last steel frame. 👍
I have a almost new 2019 YZ250 in my garage too. I had to lower it about 2" because I hated the height they became, (18 years of not riding before the 2019 YZ). I had 5 250cc 2-stroke MX bikes in the past, (from a 1982 YZ250 to a 97 KX250), and none were this tall. 2004 is the steel frame I believe. Do you find a big height difference between the 2019 and the 2004? I know one thing. I won't have to search for a berm all the time. I can take the inside flat line with a normal bike height now. :) It is a pretty simple matter of physics. Thanks. Doug in Michigan.
I like the early 80's yellow on the Yamaha. My first real motorcycle you could actually get hurt on was a 1980 YZ80.😝 Before that I had a Suzuki DS80. Before that I had a pos Italjet 50. My parents hated motorcycles,so I saved all my odd jobs money and bought them all myself. Now I'm 45 and my mom still doesn't like the fact that I have a KLR250. She's worried that I'm going to get hurt on it or in a bad accident. That YZ80 was fast. The suspension kinda sucked by late 80's standards but it was just as fast and sometimes faster than the newer bikes that my friends rode. I've always wanted a Tri-Z i75 for some reason? Id buy one if I ever came across a good clean one some day. I had a Yamaha Blaster in the mid 90'S sold that around 2001. That was a pretty fun quad.I should have kept it. I doubt I'll ever sell this KLR I have. It's been very,very reliable good bike. It's a 1990 model with 20k miles on it. Still starts right up on the 1st or 2nd kick.
The 84 125 was sweet too look at..but as u know that is all.i too was 11 in 1980 so i alot like u do about yz's and rm's of that time ..ground breaking bikes ..till 83.then as we we know green and red was the rage
I like the 1985-'90 look the best, followed by the 1997. My brother had a 1991 YZ 125, I was never a fan of the Magenta pink. The 1991 YZ 125's motors were junk. The '91 YZ 125's motor were underpowered and their engine cases would stuck air, creating a lean-seize. My brother had to have his YZ motor rebuilt many times because of this flaw.
I have a 1980 Yz 80g found it on the side of the road for free the guy said it was worth nothing because the stator was bad I took it home look it over and the stator wires just needed to be redone now I race it at my local track
Had a 98 YZ 125 which got stolen and Replaced it with the 04 YZ 250, I fully tricked it out and got the Boost mobile holographic dragon and gripper seat 🤙🏾🤙🏾Best looking machine.
Honestly, I am not sure what you are referring to in my video, but I think Yamahas are excellent motorcycles. I have owned over 50 bikes and have owned all the big five plus a two-stroke Harley from the seventies when I was a kid. I would rank Honda and Yamaha as number one for durability, but every brand has had its ups and downs. As to you question, my last two bikes were a 2005 Yamaha YZ250 two-stroke and 2016 KTM 250SX-F four-stroke.
He's right the box stock 85 yz250 was faster than the 84 works Honda rc250s. Wasn't close w a few mods pipe reeds and a port n the Hondas were way back there
I had a Canadian pros 97YZ 125 back in the day. I loved that bike. Had a 89CR 125...the YZ blew it out of the water. That 05 YZ you had was beautiful. It's a timeless design
@@TheMotocrossVault Me too. I am 57 and still look young, (except for the belly. we will see what a YZ will do for that). I blame it on the dirt bikes. Keeps us young. T-shirt spotted: "We do not stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing." :)
@@TheMotocrossVault I would also like to add, I never started a family, and your kids seem to have a great spirit, (for life). I am going to add a touch of philosophy if I may. All kids have experienced at least some of that great life spirit, it is human nature. Do you know that if we truly lived in a free and free market society, (like the USA was founded), it is actually highly probable that the same great spirit of life and wonder we had as children,----would last our entire lives? So when somebody tells this old man he should not be riding dirt bikes, I will reply; "Don't let the wonderful child be beaten out of you. Ride." :) I like to see a good family. My best wishes to all of the Blazer family. Keep up that great "life spirit". It is golden.
IMO the '83 250 should have made it, your #6 is no good, I had one, that thing was more like a farm implement, Don't agree with your #1 either, they couldn't make up their mind if it should be blue or white so they went with blueberry swirl. Fun videos though
I love how you say the Magenta color was "bold design", (so is "coming out of the closet"), and made number 4 on your list. But at the end you compare it to the ugly slash paint graphics of the Suzuki. Paraphrasing, "Not nearly as ugly as the RM that year". Lets face what may be reality. Magenta would not have existed if Broc Glover would not have worn pink at a Millers Masters race in the late 80's and won. I am glad that ugly era is over. :)
That, and the shape of the fenders. It is art over function. No, it is "dysfunctional art", over function. I will be switching my 2019 plastic for older plastic if possible, (and I suspect it is).
No way 2015 yamahal Looks like a thumper not motocross yuck the yz.s hit there peak in looks from 74 till 77 after that is a grease out the changed every thing since done look like yamaha no more changed every thing The reed valve the power band the suspension leave it alone hasn't yamaha screwed it up enough white with red.or yellow .was the last of the best now it a star wars bike ugly and to gimmicky there going backwards instead of forwards
I only hate 2 things on my 2019 YZ250 2-stroke. 1) The height. I had to lower it a total of 2" to get on it. No matter what the kids at MXA say, it does not have to be as tall as a 4-stroke. 2) The plastic. It looks like the art department has taken over the function department. I will be replacing the "transformer robot arrow looking crap" with older YZ plastic if I can, even if I have to replace the entire air box to change the rear fender and side panels. After I am done with it,---it will look (and ride) perfect to me. :)
My first pick is the 1985.....Getting the cool Euro candy cane colors with the gold anodized rims was mind blowing. Throw in the BASS Ohlins replica shock and the fact that RJ and Broc were riding them, nothing else was even close!
Great video keep them coming!
Gotta say I like the 86/87 slightly more just little more refined look
You bring back a lot of old memories. I grew up in the 60's and 70's. When I got my 75' Honda Elsinore 125, 1st time I road it and hit the powerband, I was hanging off the back of the bike. 1st year of the "6 speed" transmission. Beautiful bike! It had a "mud flap" lol
I was just a few years behind you, with my first MX bike being a 78 YZ100, (I had a couple of trail bikes before). You mentioned your front fender flap of the early Elsi. I now remember that wide front fender on the YZ, much wider than my previous trail bikes, and how well the kept the dirt from my tire flying up in my face. In fact, a freind of mine at the time took it for a ride, and mentioned the same thing, after we talked about the power. :)
My first bike was a 1985 yz80....Anyone remember the movie "The Dirt Bike Kid" ? Loved that movie back then...lol
My brother had a yz80 they would rev till they explode man
my 85 YZ80 was my first motocross bike my first bike was a ty80 trials..
and yes I remember renting the dirtbike kid several times and driving my parents nuts with it..
Yes I loved that movie when I was a kid. It’s cheesy watching it now though with Peter billingsly fake riding his bike in front of a blue screen
1976 YZ125C. The aluminum tank made this a real beauty. Plus I used to race one at Red Bud in Niles Michigan.
The old black and yellow yamahas just looked like they came to kick ass back in the day.
Totally agree
Exactly frank you knew it was a yamaha by the noise and looked it looked like you meant you were searious
Even the blue is shitty not a yz unless its yellow and cool looking back then its simple
Yz yamaha..red honda cr
Kawasaki is green the should of left it
It will get to the point where
Way over priced to advanced.people will stop buying them unless your a motocrosser that all there good for race it shut it off
When a 125 costs 5000 plus .sonetjing is realy wrong
That's just gouging
#1 93 YZ250. #2 2020 YZ450. #3 87 YZ125
Yamaha should just go back to white and red. The blue is ok but white and red looks so good on any bike.
84/85 YZ 250 in the Red & White are some of the best looking MX bikes ever made .
Here in Canada, we had the black and yellow YZ's like the US until 1981, when they switched Canadian YZ's to red and White in 1981. My first real race bike was a red/white 1981 YZ 125. I had the pleasure of racing a 1991 YZ 250 - loved that bike and wish I still had it!
Excellent video as usual!
My first bike after a YZinger was an 81 yz 60. I loved that thing. I then got a kx 60 and Team Green ride after getting bronze in the Florida Winter Olympics and winning district and state championships that year
You got pretty fast. I bet anything you put your mind to, you get good at. I think dirt bikes did that for me. :)
Top 3 YZ250's for me...
#1 : 1990 YZ250WR - Same bike as my #2 (w/minor power train changes) but blue instead of red, and absolutely LOVED the blue anodized forks
#2 : 1990 YZ250 - Just an absolutely beautiful design
#3 : 1981 YZ250 - Loved the old school Speed Block Yellow and 81 is a good representative, and I now have a 2016 Yamaha XSR900 in the same colors :-)
The black and yellow yamahas are what a dirt bike should look like.
I wish i still had all the 1980's Japanese two stroke bikes i used to own from 80's to 250's. I would have had a nice collection! These are fantastic video's and bringing back some great memory's!
Right. I have been thinking of buying all the bikes I once owned, just for my own little "Dirt Bike life experience museum".
Thank you for all of your awesome videos, in my opinion the best looking YZ would be a tie between a 1983 and a 1984, the yellow and black is where it's at as far as looks goes in my book but I do also like the red and white quite a bit on the 85s and up.
The 1979 YZ250 it had a 6-speed it was the best YZ ever.
Jimmy Williams I used to have a 79 250 and 80 and yes they were ahead of there time in those years!
👍
Oh, I would not be surprised if more often than not, because we have such a deep connection with dirt bikes, we will say that the best MX bike ever,----is the first one we ever owned. I swear, I could kick Hannah's but on my 78 YZ100!
I had the 79 YZ125 next though. It was OK. :)
But in reality, after I get this 2019 YZ250 2-stroke set up the way I want, it will be the best bike I ever owned. Doug in Michigan.
But I hate the plastic, and am watching this vid to see what earlier front fender I could put on it. Today's weird plastic,---is the art departments fault IMO. I am not into adding "art" with no added function.
You can't beat the look of the classic black and yellow yamahas they were a pretty bike.
The 1990 and 1991 and 92 were my favorite ones. The graphics and colors are cool too
The worst looking bikes to me are every orange KTM. The only KTM that was good looking to me was the "one off" 125 MX bike Horst Lietner built for them as a prototype. They never came out with it, and it never lit a fire under the engineers. That was one great looking bike.
@The Motocross Vault could you do a video on the 1985 Kawasaki Kx 125 it would be much appreciate, thanks great video.
85' KX's were awesome 80cc and 125.....But they were really unreliable despite how great they ran...I had an 87' kx80 and it was true to the reputation of great running and bad reliability...Change out the soft rubber transmission oil plug and change levers, bars, and high quality bolt kit and it's good to go..The stock bolts are horrible...Thumbs up..That's a video I'd like see too.
I had a 85 KX80. It ripped
I had an 85 KX 80. Never had any reliability issues.
Yo know, modern blue yammie could benefit from using yellow plastic accents like the 80s it enduro bikes..
I had the 09 yz450f in the white with red hub's
Not my favorite bike ever, but one of my favorite looking bikes i've owned
The first bike I was on when I was young was the 1986 yellow and black YZ80.. It was extremely fun and fast! It was also a little bit scary!! as a kid when that powerband kicked in.. you'd have to be up on the gas tank.. I think it went 80mph!? lol
Great choices . I had the 1983 yz 250 , which , to me .... was a beautiful machine. Then the 84's
especialy the YZ490 . Sweet looking ! Huh ... Then the 88's & 89's with the blue instead of the red. .... I think thats when they came out with the wide ratio yz's , the WR's.......
Man... I cannot believe you don’t like bikes from the 70’s... or especially from the 80’s!!! The 80’s were the fastest moving development freight train in the history of the sport. It all kind of peaked when the works bikes were outlawed.... I guess it’s also a factor of age or history in the sport. Shocks and disturbs me a little I gotta say. Love your videos and what you’re doing anyway👍😜
The best looking Yz is the 1990 YZ250 in my opinion should have been #1 but I was shocked it didn’t even make your list!
1989 yz125 with a big 45 on it!
Never been a Yamaha fan, but a very good pick. I never liked the big shroud on one side on the 88-93 so that would not entre my list, and I prefer the 96 over the 97. Nice video, I enjoy them all !!!
Amazing content as always, I just picked up what looks to be a 1989 yz250, but it has a purple lavender original frame color, I am trying to find pictures from this bike stock but I only find white frames bikes,
Any thought on what I have here? where can I find pictures and data?
Thank you in advance.
The purple lavender frame was 1995. The 1989 has totally different bodywork too so it should be easy to figure out
Hi I,ll never forget when the j came out in Oz red and white I was around 12 years old. the 80 was 999 bucks back then way out of my reach I had an old 80c I usually had to push home it was clapped out I didn't know diddle about it I used to have the j brochure stuck to my bed head I would stare at it for hours wishing for one . It was weird for us Aussies to see black and yellow ones from the USA
they looked a bit like RM,s the good old days
92' head shake and honda...lol...I raced Honda's in 91' and 92'..The head shake was downright scary coming down a bumpy straight especially late moto with some arm pump...great video brings back some memories...
I don't know why they changed the color does anyone know why they did.
In canada we had the yellow and black yz's until 82, then we got the white and red
ones
Where is the 1995 yz250?
I agree, the 2000-2014 YZ250 design looks !!way!! better than the 2015+ design. I have a brand new 2019 YZ250 in my garage but I recently purchased a 2004 model and rebuild it to factory new condition. I like the look of the 2002-2004 very much and the 2004 is the last steel frame. 👍
I have a almost new 2019 YZ250 in my garage too. I had to lower it about 2" because I hated the height they became, (18 years of not riding before the 2019 YZ). I had 5 250cc 2-stroke MX bikes in the past, (from a 1982 YZ250 to a 97 KX250), and none were this tall. 2004 is the steel frame I believe. Do you find a big height difference between the 2019 and the 2004? I know one thing. I won't have to search for a berm all the time. I can take the inside flat line with a normal bike height now. :) It is a pretty simple matter of physics. Thanks. Doug in Michigan.
@@EarthSurferUSA I don't feel a height difference between the two bikes. I think the basic design of the 2004 and 2015+ model is pretty much the same.
Do you happen to know if the 86-87 Yz125 is same tank as the 250? Or do you know of anyone making a stock capacity reproduction for the 250?
Ebay, bruh, ebay..
I remember seeing that same bike but it was a Yamaha 80 and I begged me dad to buy it for me to no avail.
84 yzs best color schemes. I wish the 86 yz250 was in the old yellow black and white color scheme it'd look so sick.
There is a yellow (hurricane graphics) 06 yz450f at S&W power sports in Jasper Alabama for $2995
Kevin Walker use to fly on these Yamahas in the 90s
I had a lot of yamahas in my time here and l still own a few now..
I like the early 80's yellow on the Yamaha. My first real motorcycle you could actually get hurt on was a 1980 YZ80.😝 Before that I had a Suzuki DS80. Before that I had a pos Italjet 50. My parents hated motorcycles,so I saved all my odd jobs money and bought them all myself. Now I'm 45 and my mom still doesn't like the fact that I have a KLR250. She's worried that I'm going to get hurt on it or in a bad accident. That YZ80 was fast. The suspension kinda sucked by late 80's standards but it was just as fast and sometimes faster than the newer bikes that my friends rode. I've always wanted a Tri-Z i75 for some reason? Id buy one if I ever came across a good clean one some day. I had a Yamaha Blaster in the mid 90'S sold that around 2001. That was a pretty fun quad.I should have kept it. I doubt I'll ever sell this KLR I have. It's been very,very reliable good bike. It's a 1990 model with 20k miles on it. Still starts right up on the 1st or 2nd kick.
The 84 125 was sweet too look at..but as u know that is all.i too was 11 in 1980 so i alot like u do about yz's and rm's of that time ..ground breaking bikes ..till 83.then as we we know green and red was the rage
FYI, yz's weren't white and red in Canada until 1982. Previous to '82 they were yellow
I like the 1985-'90 look the best, followed by the 1997. My brother had a 1991 YZ 125, I was never a fan of the Magenta pink. The 1991 YZ 125's motors were junk. The '91 YZ 125's motor were underpowered and their engine cases would stuck air, creating a lean-seize. My brother had to have his YZ motor rebuilt many times because of this flaw.
I had the 97 YZ125 with the Factory Yamaha graphics and shrouds from John Dowd's YZ125. That bike would scream and handle with little mods.
I was born in 1971 I feel the same way I like the late 70's on up bikes.
Proud 1991 YZ 125 owner
The early bikes look so cool especially the yellow and black , the blue does not do it for me.
I have a 1980 Yz 80g found it on the side of the road for free the guy said it was worth nothing because the stator was bad I took it home look it over and the stator wires just needed to be redone now I race it at my local track
Yamaha looks great in Blue but Yellow and Black could have been more legendary then it already is.
79-81 hands down
i too had a a 85.....it was a screamer ...last of the good soft seats...lol
Yamaha rules pal.
I knew it this guy is a Honda lover that's why he's always knocking Yamaha.
Who are you talking about, me? I have owned over a dozen Yamahas and love them. Not sure what you are talking about
78 was the great year for Yamaha !
Had a 98 YZ 125 which got stolen and
Replaced it with the 04 YZ 250, I fully tricked it out and got the Boost mobile holographic dragon and gripper seat 🤙🏾🤙🏾Best looking machine.
My favorite was any YZ that Bradshaw sat on and punched out someone on. Haha!
I would have squeezed in the 87 yz125 and 82 yz80 (euro colours)
Well maybe I'm wrong it just seemed like you were dissing on the Yamahas a little bit be honest what kind of bike do you ride now.
Honestly, I am not sure what you are referring to in my video, but I think Yamahas are excellent motorcycles. I have owned over 50 bikes and have owned all the big five plus a two-stroke Harley from the seventies when I was a kid. I would rank Honda and Yamaha as number one for durability, but every brand has had its ups and downs. As to you question, my last two bikes were a 2005 Yamaha YZ250 two-stroke and 2016 KTM 250SX-F four-stroke.
I wish motorcycles still looked like that 92
The black and yellow yamahas were the best looking bikes.
My favourite, 91/92
He's right the box stock 85 yz250 was faster than the 84 works Honda rc250s. Wasn't close w a few mods pipe reeds and a port n the Hondas were way back there
I love the 95 yz 250
1985 yz490 would be my choice
5 & 4 should’ve been 1 & 2 in my opinion
wow! i got a minty fresh 1998
best style yz 250 85 no matter whithe or yellow
1990 is my favorite
Dam u love 250s..the 1981 yz 125 was definetly cool ..wtf man
You look dam good for over 50 sir
Stay safe my friend
Thank you
I had a Canadian pros 97YZ 125 back in the day. I loved that bike. Had a 89CR 125...the YZ blew it out of the water.
That 05 YZ you had was beautiful. It's a timeless design
@@TheMotocrossVault Me too. I am 57 and still look young, (except for the belly. we will see what a YZ will do for that).
I blame it on the dirt bikes. Keeps us young.
T-shirt spotted: "We do not stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing." :)
@@TheMotocrossVault I would also like to add, I never started a family, and your kids seem to have a great spirit, (for life). I am going to add a touch of philosophy if I may. All kids have experienced at least some of that great life spirit, it is human nature. Do you know that if we truly lived in a free and free market society, (like the USA was founded), it is actually highly probable that the same great spirit of life and wonder we had as children,----would last our entire lives?
So when somebody tells this old man he should not be riding dirt bikes, I will reply; "Don't let the wonderful child be beaten out of you. Ride." :)
I like to see a good family. My best wishes to all of the Blazer family. Keep up that great "life spirit". It is golden.
Also .. The 1992 WR 500's !! I always admired. Damon Bradshaw would rip on that sort of out dated machine...
IMO the '83 250 should have made it, your #6 is no good, I had one, that thing was more like a farm implement, Don't agree with your #1 either, they couldn't make up their mind if it should be blue or white so they went with blueberry swirl. Fun videos though
Hahahaha, school bus with for flat tires , good one, im lucky to have a yz250 1997 handle fine
1989 and 1997 the best looking Yamahas
The 89 yamaha would have looked better in black and yellow.
Your joking aren’t you? you didn’t even say about the yz400fm the absolute game changer.
I had it and loved it but I did not love its looks
The 85’ YZ 250 was a rippa
Tractor engine thing pulled tree stumps. Loved that bike hauled ass
I love how you say the Magenta color was "bold design", (so is "coming out of the closet"), and made number 4 on your list. But at the end you compare it to the ugly slash paint graphics of the Suzuki. Paraphrasing, "Not nearly as ugly as the RM that year".
Lets face what may be reality. Magenta would not have existed if Broc Glover would not have worn pink at a Millers Masters race in the late 80's and won. I am glad that ugly era is over. :)
One of my bugs about modern bikes is the small side number plates. Useless.
That, and the shape of the fenders. It is art over function. No, it is "dysfunctional art", over function. I will be switching my 2019 plastic for older plastic if possible, (and I suspect it is).
No way 2015 yamahal Looks like a thumper not motocross yuck the yz.s hit there peak in looks from 74 till 77 after that is a grease out the changed every thing since done look like yamaha no more changed every thing
The reed valve the power band the suspension leave it alone hasn't yamaha screwed it up enough white with red.or yellow .was the last of the best now it a star wars bike ugly and to gimmicky there going backwards instead of forwards
I only hate 2 things on my 2019 YZ250 2-stroke.
1) The height. I had to lower it a total of 2" to get on it. No matter what the kids at MXA say, it does not have to be as tall as a 4-stroke.
2) The plastic. It looks like the art department has taken over the function department. I will be replacing the "transformer robot arrow looking crap" with older YZ plastic if I can, even if I have to replace the entire air box to change the rear fender and side panels.
After I am done with it,---it will look (and ride) perfect to me. :)