1976 Yamaha TT500 - Tom White's Museum
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2017
- For this first episode of Tom White's Museum we take a look at his 1976 Yamaha TT500. This bike was known as being a "kit bike" as many would buy this model and change it to a more specific skill set or niche in motorcycle racing. The TT500 was a home run for Yamaha. In addition to the TT and XT500, Yamaha introduced the SR500?a street bike that was produced from 1978 to 1982. Yamaha reintroduced the SR500 as a 400 in Japan in 1994 and sold thousands. Yamaha’s biggest four-stroke success, the YZ400, would come along in 1998 and change motocross as we knew it.
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I would love videos on Tom's bikes. I love all the history of old bikes!
I sure would like to see the collection one day, sure was sad to lose Tom White in 2017. You could tell how proud he was of this HL500.
RIP Tom...
Is the museum still up and running? If not, what did they do with all of the bikes, sell them on Ebay?
I had a 1981 xt500 with Simon forks . 2 Sun gold rims. With the white brothers banana swingarm Plus work shocks and white brothers number to cam with the valve spring kit. It's nice to see one of the White Brothers the maker of that stuff see
Tt 500 first bike i learned to ride on.it was a beast
TT500, nearly bought one new back in '79 when I was 17. Bought a new XR500 instead. Either of them would be worth a bit of coin now.
Wow. What a beautiful piece of work. Best looking vintage dirt bike ever made in my opinion.
A super trapp exhaust made for a mean sounding bike. A really good bike for riding wheelies.
I saw Bengt Aberg hole-shot the field at Puyallup in 1976 aboard the HL500. Outclassed even the works Suzukis!
I built my own,has a 640 power roll stroke and bore kit ,tighe cam ,40 mm mikuni pumper ,big clutch and oil pump, 50mm wp extremes on the front and fox on the back, rear disc brake ,it puts the shits up the late model ,it's quick and torquey
It's amazing how many different bikes the Japanese 4 have made. Those engineers must just love bikes. There is no other explanation I can think of. Cheers from Canada.
I bought a new 77 xt 500 while in high school then traded it in on the 78 tt and had it gone through by White Brothers. Ported polished big piston and cam, huge pipe, big carb, big swing arm, so I could put a huge super digger 901 rear tire on it. Also put cd ignition on it. It was a beast. Kicked back like a horse when hot and broke my foot several times. It kicked back so hard it would spin the retaining nut off the bottom timing shaft allowing it to lose time and not start. so I put smaller dome piston in it and that solved that problem and still had so much power. Loved that bike. Unbelievable.
Had a 1976 TT 500 what a beast. Suspension wasn't so great but the engine was amazing
I had a 1977 tt500
It' was the most balanced bike I have ever rode I would give my right leg to ride one more time before these dam doctors take it from me long live tt500 God bless the guys that collect them
I just bought one tonight. I believe it to be a 1976 TT, (not an HL, although I'm not all that familiar with either model really). It came in a package deal with a Butaco 360 (i believe) 2-stroke that I have yet to nail down the model of for sure. Both roughish but complete. I think they'll run with minimal effort. The tt for sure.
NICE TT YAMAHA, FORGOT ABOUT THIS MODEL. THE MAN FROM DIRT BIKE MAGAZINE USED TO WATCH ME RACE AT ELSINORE RACEWAY. HE WAS THERE THE NIGHT I HAD TO PUT MY FOOT ON DANNY MAGOO'S ENGINE TO GET AROUND THE TOP TURN. HE KNEW MY DAD IN THE PIT'S - JACK GRANT. LMAO, ENJOY YOUR WORK
I still like those metal tanks.
Great looking bike definitely is one of a kind and whoever handpicked those parts back in the day knew what they were doing.
Great video! Very informative!
Super cool bike, Thanks for sharing! I still remember the Yamaha 360’s with the blk tank with a red pin stripe on race weekends splitting in two at the goose neck off the last big jump at St.Peters Cycle World track. That 500 frame would probably not do that. I saw two 360’s split in one day there.
Badass Bike, they should build them again....
Cool looking bike.
Beautiful!
aN older guy in my neighborhood had a Chrome TT500 bike, he was like 19ish,I was like 14ish. I use to see him heading towards the woods about 1/2 mile away. I use to think. wow. just wow This was in probably 1978 & the bike looked pretty new.
More of this! Especially 4T
Lucky Bastid! "This bike built my house, and I have a big house!" I'll bet! Look forward to seeing all the rest of the collection, from AJS to Zundapp!
Sweet bike
.always been a fan ..still own 2 xt 250s ..2 xt350s & a tt 350..ALL GR8 RUNNING BIKES..THINK IN TOTAL HAVE 1000$ INTO ALL OF THEM ..& JUST SOLD OFF 3 XT600s..you can't kill these things ..granted the one with highest miles is still under 5000 but only reason sold 600s is being 60+ and no e.start. was just to much ..I like just trail n side streets so no need for big bore still I regret selling ..cant help but....gotta visit that place..gr8 vid
the tank is such a beautiful shape
I always loved the chrome tanks also. They have an awesome shape you're right!
I have a 77 TT 500 I paid a dollar a cc for it 37 years ago and and still ride it . Air front forks ,fox rears cantilevered 2" longer swingarm, 4 mm larger carb,ss braided oil lines, 19" x3 frt rim 18x3 rear rim 400 x19 and 510x18 tires and three rebuilds..
when i was younger, my good friend had one of these, either tt or xt 500 or 550.
its been so long ,hard to recal, but what i do remember is the times he let me ride it! those engines were Fast and had Unreal amounts of torque..used to scare me to open it up!
Totally AWESOME
Saw this bike ridden by BengtAaberg at the 500 WM in Wohlen / Switzerland. So beautifull ! Note that there was already a 4 stroker out there the CCM.
great video guys
always i love it.almoust. never it had mine .thanks,saludos,pereiratopteam
CCM did have some success with their B50 derived motors on the world circuit. Tom White was a really nice guy. He did me a favour out of the kindness of his heart.
The chrome tanks were super cool like the old Huskys!
I raced one of these I built and raced in open expert class along with Greg Boutwell who had the same bike. They were hole shot kings, though all ways ended up getting passed by 2 strokes.
I thought 2 strokes left racing because of bad press about emissions.
No two stroke outboard marine engines now either.
The SR500 and SR400 are everywhere in Japan. The 400 is especially popular due to the licensing laws. Legendary engine that was in the XT range as well. I never knew this bike existed in a kit form. Think Yamaha dirt bike think 2 stroke, which makes this bike all the more fascinating.
Yes to all the questions that every buddy said and l wish Yamaha could bring back so of these older bikes like the older yzs&tts and l just wandering if this place is still open...
This is a real cool 4 stroke bike...
That's my drawing of John Desoto that I did for Tom. Mark B.
I had the nicest one in the country. It had dual hi volume oil lines to the cams, an oil cooler in the air Box, kyb factory front forks the bottom caps Came off. Kyb air shocks, lectron carb, 17 in rear wheel hi comp piston. Reverse cone megaphone, unbendable handle bars, it was geared to go 110 mph. It was Built-in Las Cruces New Mexico in 1984.
As a point of order, CCM were competing in the world championship with a four stroke in the mid-seventies. It was abased on a heavily modified BSA 500, and achieved some success (5 times in the top 5).
Mate o' mine had one of these- unpredictable machine he reckoned.
Ran an old XT500 on the road from `81 to `86 and I could do anything with it. Lay it right over at speed into constant radius turns off motorways, knobbles on knobbly rear doubled under, so I was informed by mate in a van I`d just overtaken at a good 80mph cranked right over, going into the slip road. Thought you were off he and his passenger commented. I had several bikes in the garage, but the XT especially brought a smile to my face. Would be great for UK`s potholed roads nowadays. Tracked sublimely, very comfy too, saw several Germans over in UK touring on them.
Then take it off-road and it would tie itself in knots, spat me off several times, so went back to lighter 2-strokes off-road.
I now own a TT500, US import.
@@rattusnorvegicus4380 : Haha- love your "Nom de Plume!" The XT was more rider friendly with the auto decompression and better road handling for sure. The TT was a dirt only I reckon.
I have got a set of reconditioned Fox Airshocks lying around, doesn't fit on my XT with the original exhaust. White Brothers sold a lot of tuning parts for XT's. I bought a 4inch Supertrapp with them
We have gone full circle in motocross. In the beginning it was all 4 stroke then went to all 2 stroke and now back to 4 stroke. I have both and cant really pick a favorite
I have 1992 TT600 is about same engine, two carb a and exellente monocross suspension, nice bike,
Not it's not even close to the same engine, [ 4 valves & balancer shaft]
Wheelie machine 🤘🏻
Wel
I have a 76 HL 500 also, my dad bought it around 1980 he always said it was like a TT and when he passed i dug it out in 1996 and it fired right up after new gas,
I remember when I was in my teens a good friend of mines dad had a 76 TT-500 and his dad told him NOT TO TRY AND START IT but that didn't stop him from trying so one day I was over at his house and he said F my dad I'm gonna fire it up so he forgot about the top dead center pre start procedure which as I recall on the XT,TT'S it had a little c thru bubble that indicates that, so he starts trying to kick it over n he's struggling like hell to do so on his last attempt on the down stroke it kicked back n launched him right over the bars with a then unknown broken foot too !!! Those are far worse to kick over then my 87 CR5OO
BOLLOCKS
Great history. White Bros, Powroll, Simons, Fox all just before factory four stroke raceable motors.
Where is thta museum? California? Is open ? Thanks , Hello from LA.
didn't they race the CCM bikes with the BSA 500 engine in the 70's
Yup. John Banks rode one in the World Championship and had a few 5th place finishes. I had two friends that were sponsored by the US importer. The motors sounded great on track and the bikes got a lot of attention in the pits.
The 77 Aberg race bike had 9.75" each end and 42BHP according to Bruce Porter. I don't believe they got 42bhp from what was more or less a stock motor in the first year, when they came with 27/28. The 1977 November issue of Dirt Bike stated that Bent was running a standard cam and implied he was using a 11 to 1 Protec piston. I strongly suspect that Protec and Tom White parts were one and the same. The Dirt Bike Profab ran an Axtell cam and a Dellorto pumper carb, which came with Axtell's manifold.
The first swingarms seem to have come with laydown Fox air shocks. Some later swingarms had two mounting positions , then just one halfway down the swingarm and they got a bit more travel using a shorter more upright shock. Profab frame kits were sold from '77. Dirt Bike stated Aberg was experimenting with removing first and third gears. If he was taking out gears he was running the engine as a torque monster, not a high horsepower revver. According the the March '77 Cycle World article the mods the Bent's bike was using got you around 36. Hallman has recently stated that Bent didn't like the 3 valve head they built for the following year as it made it's power too high up the rev range. Thing is that they were experimenting all year and the following so one can't make hard and fast statements on power and travel and engine components.
Tom White has one Great Private Dirt Bike Museum.. I am guessing the last bike he added to it before he passed away was the New Indian 750 Flat Track Racer..
I liked the Yamaha TT 500.. My friend bought one to build a Hill climber.. but some lady hung a U turn in front of him after she pulled to the side of the road in a rain storm.. He was doing a plug check.. Broke his leg in 7 places and never built the Hill Climber..
I have all the Literature for CCM 500 & 600 Motocross bikes Close ration for wide ratio 3 speed or 4 speed Trans.. in 1982 I could have bought one for $2,200.00 but never did
I did put a bored and stroked Honda SL 125 motor in a 77 Honda CR 125 frame .. fun bike to ride 160 CC's
CCM still used the BSA B-50 Goldstar motor in 1982
Hmmmm, I have a '78 SR500. I should put together one of these beasties with my motor.
That was the first really the first 4 stroke dirt bike!!
ummm no......look at the bsa 441 victor for starters..the CCMs were lighter and more powerful..hell I have a 125 4 stroke trailbike from 1974 and its a honda
Almost all Dirt Bikes were 4 stokes in the 1960's Think Jawa CZ Zundapp were some of the first two strokes to challenge 4 strokes at scrambles races .. @gary bulwinkle ruclips.net/video/hAOWHVkTs3Q/видео.html
I think you mean the first modern 4 stroke after the era of the TM, CR Elsinores, euro Bultaco, CZ, Maico etc etc..... all the races back then dominated by two strokes which just anilated the old 4 stroke bikes and any new comers as well. Common line up saw any 4 stroke at the rear. How things have changed.
Have you got a Kawasaki F21M in the museum?. My favorite!. I've read there was an F12 but never seen a picture of one.
@Otis Cat
Yes. The engine was a tuned up 250, F4 engine in a specially designed frame and C2TR fuel tank. Great looking early Kwack MX'er but very rare. I'm restoring a 1969 F4 at the moment and found a picture of the F21M in the Kawasaki service manual.
Very very nice 😎🆒🆒🆒
I wanted to here it run.
I had an SR500; be careful when ya kick start it!!! LOL
Mr White died, I don't know if his brother or if Super Hunky is still alive. Anyone know if Mr White's museum is still open to the public?
Hi Tom I'm thinking about selling my pro fab hallman Yamaha, would you have any idea of its value, many thanks Ken.
Rest in peace Tom.
What's the status of his museum?
hebat sedunia
Where is this place at would love to go see it in the worse way.?
Who doesn't have a WB part on there XT/ TT?
Could anyone educate me on how the Yamaha 2 stroke 125,175, 250 , 350 “Enduro” series fits into this story ?
I think maybe they robbed the tank off one of them to fit to the TT in the vid? :)
I love the XT/TT 500s, but real handfuls off-road. Speaking as someone who`s dropped one several times on the rough, including once when the bike ended up on top of me, trapped under it with fuel pouring out over me as I was smoking...back in the day. Choose a lighter 2-stroke if you want to give it some gas on the trails...if going down the vintage purchase route. Unless you have really big balls and good medical insurance!
4-stroke fury. Run it 90 mph all day long. Groovy "SIMONS" lettering. Harkens back to vans.
I had the XT till a 14 year old girl went for a joy ride and hit me broad side and I lost my rt leg..I had less than 1000 miles on my bike.
OUCH
Crap! That really blows!
man thats tuff....those cars wer metal bac then...& nobody watched for motorcycles.... I had a DT 175 at 15...gs400 at 17...gpz750 21...went down few times ..iv been lucky
Sweet as
Rip Tom
What happened to his museum?
Love that bike. Tom White is a great man. I know he has passed, but its too sad to use the word "was". Therefore again, Tom White is a great man.
Is the museum still open to the public?
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3:51 got a crack in the side plate
Sure does . °\(ö)/° = (
Time for some bondo
Right
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should have mentioned frame was a Husky CR replica
It wasn't, that was just the first frame they tried.
Are these bikes for sale?
White died but he had a brother though i don't know if his brother is still alive.
DESDE MEDELLÍN COLOMBIA SOLO CLASICOS. 666
So what about CCM
True desert horse. I have had one up to 120 m p h. used to sell a rack for the back. And we went to the store once didn't have a car put a full keg of beer on the rack my passenger how to hang on to the keg with both his hands behind him to hold the keg. Basically maxed out the rear shocks with both of us on it lowrider. Things I've done on an a XT 500. Had sex with my girlfriend on the bike before. So many stories I've had about six of them. 75 or 80 miles an hour wheelies. When I would set it down the front wheel with screech like a plane landing. All my other friends had already 400 I was the only thumper man. Ahead of time. Look what's popular now on the tracks four strokes.😁
Correction rd400
NOT TRUE that were no 4strokes in GP racing! UNTRUE! What was John Banks riding? For instance blurb from Wikipedia "By the 1960s, advances in two stroke engine technology meant that the heavier, four stroke machines such as Banks' BSA, were becoming obsolete in the motocross world championships. Despite this handicap, Banks still managed several top five placings in the world championships against lighter, two stroke motorcycles, including an impressive performance at the 1973 500cc United States Grand Prix in Southern California where, on the hard packed desert terrain, the explosive power delivery of two stroke engines put them at a disadvantage to more tractable power delivery of Banks' BSA. He finished the first moto in third place behind Willy Bauer and Roger De Coster then, finished the second moto in fourth place behind Bauer, Gerrit Wolsink and Jaak van Velthoven..." Please correct your spiel
CCM - In the mid 70's John Banks, Alan Clews, Vic Eastwood rode CCM 4-strokes in the GP circuit.
He is not entirely correct, Yamaha did produce 200 in 1977 and 200 in 1978 in the old Norton plant in UK.
Didn't rick Johnson race one of these .
Yes
He won the 4 stroke nationals at Carlsbad on a HL500 built by Pro Tec
I have the magazine with him racing it. Pro-tec if I remember correctly
No problem with that
wir haben noch so ein Ding....leider mit Lagerschaden am Getriebe.....
Ay man, i gota Jammaha 10,000 its that i crashed and there was a lake so i don gotit anymore. Lmao
the twin turbo 500 woot woooot
Great engine! needs only a in and outlet port fix because they gave a shit about that back then... but will never let you down.
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tt600
No thanks,I'll take a 1981 Maico 490 any day over that.
I'll take my Gulfstream V over your Maico, any day.
Maico would be nice, 700 is the one for me 👍
You know it! 81 490 maico rules!
he said that be coast as much as a house? fuck. what's my 73 Honda scrambler worth?
HL 500
That looks more like a HL 500
Xdr
HL500
Didn't this bike have points!!
Stock, yes. XT's and TT's I believe until 1979 had points. 1980-1981 models had a CDI ignition.
" four strokes were trail bikes" forgive me for correcting you but what about CCM.
CCM's kicked ass in GP events all the way up to the mid 70's. A CCM is what his museum needs.
Hay estan las motos del hijo de pablo escobar :v
No idea about Size
Would have ben nice to see the bike instead of ya'll two talking about it