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5/6/2017 10:35am
5/6/2017 10:35am
Was thinking about this today as I was looking at some old Moto vids and wondered where they came up with the Yamaha "YZ" or CR, XR, RM, KX, etc. There has to be some kind of back story or reasoning for the letters they chose I would think.
YZ- Yamaha zinger
RM- Race model
WR- wide ratio
SX- supercross
Not sure about KX or XR
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Also, I'm not sure what the z means on the rmz models. I'm not sure why they didn't go with RMF for the 4 strokes.
CRF450r= Competition racer four stroke (engine size) race
CRF230F= competition race four stroke "look a like" (engine size) fun, these used to be xr models until the crf became so popular that they tried to piggy back on the crf name, kind of like everything kawi is a ninja now.
CRF250L= competition race four stroke "look a like" (engine size) lighted
CB= city bike
CBR= city bike race
CBR600RR= city bike race race ready
I can go on and on about Honda codes, I am not sure on the other brands.
Would also be interested to know "CT" and "ST"... very strange that the CT50, CT70, and CT90/110 are all drastically different bikes..
I'm a huge fan of the Honda EZ90 Cub. I suspect "EZ" stands for 'easy', as the bike is a full automatic and very easy for anyone to ride. However I always wondered what made made Honda bring back the "Cub" name from the 70's C50, C70 etc series "Cub"
FC - Fartbox Moto"C"rosser?
Fark knows.
TE/FE - Two Stroke / Four Stroke Enduro
XR
KDX
DR
KLR
IT
PE
KLX
RC
OW
RA
RH
XLV
Doubtful the letters have any word association to the model. More of a letter series identifier for different models.
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