Yamaha YL-1 and AS-3: Pocket rockets
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 69 – first published in 2017. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Tony Morisset and Jim Scaysbrook Like its Japanese competitors, Yamaha had a fairly nippy little 100cc single […]
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Yamaha RD400C: Race bred roadster
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 64 – first published in 2017. Story: Peter Laverty Photos: Independent Observations. There is probably no better example of how competition improves the breed than the Yamaha RD400. And […]
Wet and wild: Yamaha RZ350
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 71 – first published in 2018. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook When Yamaha trotted out the RD350LC at the Paris Motorcycle Show in 1979, it was hailed as a miracle of […]
Bert Flood: “Everything’s a fluke that happens to me”.
Story: Transcribed and edited from an interview with Peter Drakeford in 2007. Photos: Rob Lewis, Bob Cann, Flood archives, OBA archives. These days, monocularity (the state of having vision in only one eye) virtually debars anyone […]
Yamaha FZ750: Five valve wonder
Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook • Historical photos: John Ford The Yamaha FZ750 broke new ground when it was released in 1985, and remains one of the most innovative designs of an era full of […]
Yamaha YR-2: A line in the sand
The Japanese factories wanted 350s for the booming US market. Yamaha got there first. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook Yamaha called their first 350 the YR-1 Grand Prix (at least they did in USA), which […]
Yamaha Tracer 900GT – A better Tracer
I’ve owned a Tracer 900 for 2 years and I love it; a bike that is light and manoeuvrable around town and is also comfortable cruising the highways, should you need to do so. The […]
