How about that long-awaited Yamaha 65?

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MX Culture 12/13/2017 6:39pm
12/13/2017 6:39pm
Dealers were pumped on this news today also.
Get a little market share back
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sandman768 12/13/2017 6:53pm
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Was that a Ti shock spring?
mattyhamz2 12/13/2017 9:43pm
12/13/2017 9:43pm
ledger wrote:
Dude has a bunch of helmet's, he must fall down a lot....like me.
They've been racing for a long time. The home owner raced pro and his kids are currently getting ready for sx.

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newmann 12/13/2017 9:46pm
12/13/2017 9:46pm
Ummm, didn't you guys hear? 2 strokes are dead.

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ledger 12/13/2017 11:48pm
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ledger wrote:
Dude has a bunch of helmet's, he must fall down a lot....like me.
mattyhamz2 wrote:
They've been racing for a long time. The home owner raced pro and his kids are currently getting ready for sx.
Who is it if you don't mind ? and I did notice a yellow Yamaha jersey upper right corner. Awesome that you let them use your daughter's bike !
nascarnate326 12/14/2017 3:25am
12/14/2017 3:25am
MX Culture wrote:
Dealers were pumped on this news today also.
Get a little market share back
Its always made wonder why they(yamaha) got kids on a bike with the PW50 and then abandon them until they were ready for an 85 and even then only offed a bla version of the 85. I can't wait till my little guy is ready for a bike.
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Crush 12/14/2017 3:36am
12/14/2017 3:36am
Would be ironic if Yamaha started re-pushing two strokes...
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125mx.fi 12/14/2017 4:08am
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CRF95R must be in development right now ...
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lumpy790 12/14/2017 5:13am
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NEW YZ65F for the 50 class?
Sheriff245 12/14/2017 5:42am
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lumpy790 wrote:
NEW YZ65F for the 50 class?
Sounds like a 2 stroke at the end of the video.
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Steadman 12/14/2017 5:47am
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Where are all those experts chirping that the 65 wasn't going to happen? Hmmm? Laughing
mattyhamz2 12/14/2017 6:44am
12/14/2017 6:44am
ledger wrote:
Dude has a bunch of helmet's, he must fall down a lot....like me.
mattyhamz2 wrote:
They've been racing for a long time. The home owner raced pro and his kids are currently getting ready for sx.
ledger wrote:
Who is it if you don't mind ? and I did notice a yellow Yamaha jersey upper right corner. Awesome that you let them use your...
Who is it if you don't mind ? and I did notice a yellow Yamaha jersey upper right corner. Awesome that you let them use your daughter's bike !
Russ Wageman and his kids Robbie and Rj
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user760a 12/14/2017 7:25am
12/14/2017 7:25am
Im so happy it is a 65. I was afraid the new mini model would be an E-scrapheap
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newmann 12/14/2017 7:47am
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lumpy790 wrote:
NEW YZ65F for the 50 class?
With reversed DOHC 5 valve head. And dual exhaustLaughing
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newmann 12/14/2017 7:49am
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Steadman wrote:
Where are all those experts chirping that the 65 wasn't going to happen? Hmmm? Laughing
Even funnier was a higher up at Yamaha telling me they wouldn't be doing any new 2 stroke stuff.
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Steadman 12/14/2017 8:16am
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Steadman wrote:
Where are all those experts chirping that the 65 wasn't going to happen? Hmmm? Laughing
newmann wrote:
Even funnier was a higher up at Yamaha telling me they wouldn't be doing any new 2 stroke stuff.
Really?! Crazy how out the loop some are when they should be in the know.
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Falcon 12/14/2017 8:42am
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lumpy790 wrote:
NEW YZ65F for the 50 class?
newmann wrote:
With reversed DOHC 5 valve head. And dual exhaustLaughing
Grinning Grinning
...And three throttle cables, a hot start, external oil tank and an oil cooler. The whole bike only weighs 199 pounds though.
Grinning Silly Woohoo Grinning Laughing Laughing Laughing

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wardy 12/14/2017 8:44am
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The rest of the oems' should take note.

Riders who start young, stay with the brand they start with for a very long time. KTM understood this.

Honda used too.

Now with yamaha having a ttr and now a 65, it's a perfect stepping stone for them.

150's? F's? what joke. they didn't matter before and they still don't.

Maybe the few remaining oem's who don't get it are seeing sales drop so much that they need to figure it out.

Yamaha (I am a Honda guy) has kept up it's lines, We seen a slew of off road smokers at our park over the last couple years. Guess riders do still want to buy a new smoker that's old design at some point it's really developed as far as an Amateur rider really needs.
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bball35 12/14/2017 8:46am
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So you are telling me that maybe one OEM is realizing that the average age of dirt bike riders are getting older and that they have to find a way to get younger riders in the sport and the best way to do this is build a bike for the youngsters??? The world may really be coming to an end.
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peelout 12/14/2017 9:34am
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oldblood wrote:
Those Russian hackers, Putins laughing his ass off right now. But seriously, a numberplate with $2.00 numbers? Shoot, the piano had me going there for a...
Those Russian hackers, Putins laughing his ass off right now.
But seriously, a numberplate with $2.00 numbers?
Shoot, the piano had me going there for a minute.
The bike better deliver.
i remember stopping at the shop on the way to the race to get numbers and then putting them on in the morning after signup and before practice. one of the little things of the past that i miss about this sport.
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oldblood 12/14/2017 10:11am
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Those Russian hackers, Putins laughing his ass off right now. But seriously, a numberplate with $2.00 numbers? Shoot, the piano had me going there for a...
Those Russian hackers, Putins laughing his ass off right now.
But seriously, a numberplate with $2.00 numbers?
Shoot, the piano had me going there for a minute.
The bike better deliver.
peelout wrote:
i remember stopping at the shop on the way to the race to get numbers and then putting them on in the morning after signup and...
i remember stopping at the shop on the way to the race to get numbers and then putting them on in the morning after signup and before practice. one of the little things of the past that i miss about this sport.
I was just heckling not hating, haha it seems like they didn't spend a lot of money making that ad which is cool but with the dramatic piano music it would have been nice to see at least a part of the bike like the silhouette could have been the bike for example we actually use those cheap numbers because I'd rather spend the money on a new tire or entry fees or a piston if it were April 1st and they didn't have the Yamaha logo in there I would have suspected it to be a hoax
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oldblood 12/14/2017 10:12am
12/14/2017 10:12am
I'm sure the bike will rip
mikebrownsound 12/14/2017 11:01am
12/14/2017 11:01am
twotwosix wrote:
A Japanese OEM just came out with a new 2-Stroke model. Wow.
amen.
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Mini Elsinore 12/14/2017 3:13pm
12/14/2017 3:13pm Edited Date/Time 12/14/2017 6:38pm
Steadman wrote:
Where are all those experts chirping that the 65 wasn't going to happen? Hmmm? Laughing
newmann wrote:
Even funnier was a higher up at Yamaha telling me they wouldn't be doing any new 2 stroke stuff.
I'm glad to see my skepticism was misplaced. I blame Gibby---he's been calling us '2-stroke crazies'----among other things (under his breath).
GeorgiePorgie 12/14/2017 6:22pm
12/14/2017 6:22pm Edited Date/Time 12/14/2017 6:24pm
I’m actually excited about this. Competition in the private sector. I mean Kawasaki’s 65s got a new style when I was on 80s and I’m 30 years old. KTM is only one left pushing the envelope. Hopefully it turns into an R and D War that takes these minis to a new level!

I’ve pretty much always thought my kid would go this route:

Cobra 50
KTM65
Yamaha85
kx100/105
2 stroke 125.


Now maybe the kid will be put on a yz65! How cool.

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