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The Yamaha TZ 250 was a commercially available racing motorcycle with a watercooled, two-stroke, 250 cc engine produced by the Japanese manufacturer Yamaha. The basis of the production-volume racer was the OW17 factory machine from Yamaha, which was used in the motorcycle world championship from 1973 to 1990, and with which Dieter Braun became ...
The Yamaha TZ750 is a series production two-stroke race motorcycle built by Yamaha to compete in the Formula 750 class in the 1970s. Motorcyclist called it "the most notorious and successful roadracing motorcycle of the 1970s". [1] Another journal called it the dominant motorcycle of the era, noting its nine consecutive Daytona 200 wins ...
The frame dimensions of the street 350 are very similar to the Yamaha TZ 250 and TZ 350 series factory road race bikes, differing mainly in weight and front fork rake – the RD being ~27 degrees and the TZ being ~25 degrees. The frames appear similar, side by side, with the street frame adorned with many brackets for the street equipment.
Helmut Dähne on a Yamaha TZ 350 (1976) Yamaha TZ 350 (1977) Production Racer were series manufactured racing bikes. Two Yamaha TZ 350 models are part of the motorcycle collection of the Technikmuseum Speyer. [2] Yamaha often leveraged the marketing of their RD and RZ series road motorcycles by referencing the TZ series.
Yamaha: 73 1 3 Franco Bonera: Italy: Aermacchi Harley-Davidson: 61 1 4 Tom Herron: United Kingdom: Yamaha: 47 1 5 Pentti Korhonen: Finland: Yamaha: 47 0 6 Dieter Braun: West Germany: Yamaha: 42 1 7 Chas Mortimer: 6 United Kingdom: Yamaha: 31 0 8 Bruno Kneubühler: 9 Switzerland: Yamaha: 29 0 9 Olivier Chevallier: France: Yamaha: 25 0 10 Víctor ...
Kenny Roberts was born to Alice and Melton "Buster" Roberts in Modesto, California. [6] As a child growing up in the rural agriculture area just off highway 132 near the West side vineyards of E & J Gallo Winery, Roberts was originally interested in horseback riding. [7]
The Yamaha TZ 125 was a racing motorcycle produced by the Yamaha Motor Company from 1980 to 2010. The motorcycle was powered by a two stroke 125 cc engine. The first water cooled two stroke 125cc roadracer from Yamaha was released late in 1979 in the shape of the TZ 125G.
Yamaha claimed this was the world's first mass-produced four-valve motorcycle engine. [3] The TX500 was also claimed to be the first motorcycle to use an integrated circuit-based voltage regulator. [8] The air/fuel mixture was delivered by two 32 mm Keihin constant-velocity (CV) carburetors in early models and by 38 mm Mikunis beginning in 1976.