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Yamaha Unveils DT-07 Flat Track Concept Bike at AIMExpo
Cypress, CA - October 15, 2015 – Along with displaying most of its 2016 model lineup for the first time in public, Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., today unveiled a radical new flat track concept bike at the AIMExpo in Orlando, Florida’s Orange County Convention Center.
Codenamed the “DT-07,” the bike is a one-off creation designed and built by Jeff Palhegyi Design in conjunction with Yamaha’s U.S. race shop. The DT-07 features a special race-tuned FZ-07 twin-cylinder engine with an exhaust system created by Graves Motorsports.
“When the FZ-07 was first introduced, we knew that the bike’s ‘Crossplane Concept’ parallel-twin engine had outstanding low- to mid-range torque, which is ideal for flat track racing,” commented Keith McCarty, Motorsports Racing Division Manager for Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. “Babe Demay’s FZ-07 flat track creation has already shown huge potential this season, with Dominic Colindres winning his heat race and also finishing fourth at the most recent AMA Pro Flat Track event. Here in Cypress, we’ve been doing some exploration of our own, and the DT-07 Concept is the result. The FZ-07 is a great bike and also a great platform for customization. We wanted to see what we could do with the bike as a flat tracker, and we’re very pleased with the results.”
With its one-piece bodywork resplendent in 60th-Anniversary race livery, the DT-07 features a purpose-built frame, swingarm with an adjustable pivot and link system, modified R6 conventional-style forks, an Ohlins rear shock, wheels by Propulsion Labs, and of course, the FZ-07’s compact, liquid-cooled, fuel-injected, twin-cylinder engine is the focal point of the machine.
“One of our specific goals with the DT-07 was to retain some of the FZ-07’s styling cues,” Derek Brooks, Motorcycle Product Planning Manager for Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., added. “I worked with Jeff (Palhegyi) on the design of the bike, and we literally used the FZ-07’s fuel tank cover as the basis for the body mold on the DT-07 Concept. The entire bike was essentially built from scratch, and it is Yamaha’s interpretation of what a dirt tracker designed from the ground up in 2015 should look like.”
For more Yamaha racing news, results, photos, and videos, visit http://www.YamahaMotorsports.com/Racing
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Cypress, CA - October 15, 2015 – Along with displaying most of its 2016 model lineup for the first time in public, Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., today unveiled a radical new flat track concept bike at the AIMExpo in Orlando, Florida’s Orange County Convention Center.
Codenamed the “DT-07,” the bike is a one-off creation designed and built by Jeff Palhegyi Design in conjunction with Yamaha’s U.S. race shop. The DT-07 features a special race-tuned FZ-07 twin-cylinder engine with an exhaust system created by Graves Motorsports.
“When the FZ-07 was first introduced, we knew that the bike’s ‘Crossplane Concept’ parallel-twin engine had outstanding low- to mid-range torque, which is ideal for flat track racing,” commented Keith McCarty, Motorsports Racing Division Manager for Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. “Babe Demay’s FZ-07 flat track creation has already shown huge potential this season, with Dominic Colindres winning his heat race and also finishing fourth at the most recent AMA Pro Flat Track event. Here in Cypress, we’ve been doing some exploration of our own, and the DT-07 Concept is the result. The FZ-07 is a great bike and also a great platform for customization. We wanted to see what we could do with the bike as a flat tracker, and we’re very pleased with the results.”
With its one-piece bodywork resplendent in 60th-Anniversary race livery, the DT-07 features a purpose-built frame, swingarm with an adjustable pivot and link system, modified R6 conventional-style forks, an Ohlins rear shock, wheels by Propulsion Labs, and of course, the FZ-07’s compact, liquid-cooled, fuel-injected, twin-cylinder engine is the focal point of the machine.
“One of our specific goals with the DT-07 was to retain some of the FZ-07’s styling cues,” Derek Brooks, Motorcycle Product Planning Manager for Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., added. “I worked with Jeff (Palhegyi) on the design of the bike, and we literally used the FZ-07’s fuel tank cover as the basis for the body mold on the DT-07 Concept. The entire bike was essentially built from scratch, and it is Yamaha’s interpretation of what a dirt tracker designed from the ground up in 2015 should look like.”
For more Yamaha racing news, results, photos, and videos, visit http://www.YamahaMotorsports.com/Racing
Also, check out “YamahaMotorUSA” on all your favorite social media sites
Very cool bike and hopefully it actually races next year at a few AMA nationals. Kawasaki is dominating on the big tracks now and the HD XR750 is slowly dying off. Only HD now are the factory bike and some others with big money spent on them. They had a hell of a run though, over 40 years as the dominant bike.
Hopefully the AMA learned from the mistake they made running Honda out of the series way back when. Camel Pro, that was the good ole days for sure. Lynn Griffith was the Dianna Dahlgren of my youth and we can all say we knew Dave Despain when he was just an announcer and rode a bike to the races.
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1961 a young Dick Hammer #16 won his first and only national at Peoria. The next year tragedy struck, on Hammer's first lap of practice his improperly assembled forks came apart over the jump. The sliders fell out of the fork tubes. The resulting crash left him semi-conscious for a few days and in the hospital for four weeks. In typical Hammer fashion he was back at Ascot for the weekly Friday or Saturday night races only days after being released from the hospital, eyes still blackened and bloodshot.
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to go to a mile race is on my bucket list of motorsport events i want to see,
It seems like a great basis for a tracker, given just how successful Kawi 650 based Bikes have been.
The variety of brands being raced is really encouraging, more than most race series now, and, Harley , the big bad monsters ( of controlling rules) of Flat Track, seem to have lost / relinquished the tight leash they had on the sport for so many years. I like to think that they may have realised that the sport they are so synonymous with, won't survive if they pull strings like they did for so long.
I watch the live streams of the series, great racing, most of the time, but hell, they don't seem to get much in the way of at track spectator attendance. Bit of a concern for the future of the sport. I love it, it has far less BS and Prima Donna riders than SX and MX has now in such abundance. Genuine, average Joe / Hardmen. They are a bit like Real Roads Racers (IOM / Irish Roads Racing) in that regard. Plus, there's a few very fast ladies, that 'woman up', and do battle with the blokes. Often, doing very well indeed.
Look at how successful the Kawasaki 650 engine has been, and that started from a much humbler base of engine tech and tune than the 07 Yamaha. The 07 engine is an absolute gem of design, with far more potential than the Kawasaki. And no, this is not coming from a Yamaha 'fan boi'.
I hope Yamaha are not indulging in just a bit of bike show publicity bling - they certainly have a bit of history in Flattrack, way back to the days of KR. It would be great to see them have a go, decades later. It's fantastic to see HDs, Kawis, Ducatis, Triumphs, KTMs, Suzuki's all in the mains, at times. Yamaha out there would be a great addition. I've seen some nice BMs in the pit reports from Races, too. The Ron Woods Blood Red BM from a few years ago was gorgeous.
For a branch of the sport that is so often labelled as a HD playground, I see far more openess to a lot of brand participation. Hyosungs, CM/ CFMotos and a few other (pretty good) Chinese / other Asian made engines can perhaps be the basis for very affordable trackers.
I wish that branch of our sport well - hell, if so many Americans can watch / be entertained by cars going, seemingly interminably, around and around a NASCAR circuit, you'd think people might just find a bunch of blokes, and a few blokettes, going at it hammer and tongs for 20 or so laps, able to hold their attentions.
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Love this Video.
If you look at the Pro Singles class, most of the field isn't even on a current year bike. It's much different than Motocross.
I've seen bikes being ridden at the Peoria TT that are so well used that you wouldn't even want to ride them in D/C class in moto.
Even in the top GNC classes, this holds true. The top 5-10 guys have nice equipment, but the remainder of the field drops off significantly. A lot of the bikes seem to be cobbled together without much engineering behind them.
It's truly amazing what these guys do given the equipment that they have.
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