Smithers
04-10-2008, 04:46 AM
How could I forget this gem. I actually put a LOT of miles on this little bike! It was neglected and went through 2 friends before I could convince em to hand it over to me. Then I went through the whole thing and put a Toomy Racing kit on it. The colors are from the early 90's Kawasaki ZX-7 bikes that I really like for some reason.
http://www.fourwheelperformance.com/phorum/yamaha_ysr50.jpg
This bike got ridden nearly everyday to work or from town to town on the back roads. The powerband was really annoying since the bike had NO power until it screamed to the top of the RPM range. Then it would really pull. But it's not like it had a lot of power so it would only pull about 60mph I think... but that was if the wind was at your back. This little bike would have been a terror if I had put a larger 4-stroke engine in it. A lot of the guys that raced them would put 80cc dirt bike engines into them and they were pretty mean. But I think a 125 4-stroke engine of some sort would have been perfect. All in all it was a really fun bike but just too damn slow when you can jump on any old streetbike and rip off down the road at 100mph in 7-10 seconds.
http://www.fourwheelperformance.com/phorum/yamaha_ysr50.jpg
This bike got ridden nearly everyday to work or from town to town on the back roads. The powerband was really annoying since the bike had NO power until it screamed to the top of the RPM range. Then it would really pull. But it's not like it had a lot of power so it would only pull about 60mph I think... but that was if the wind was at your back. This little bike would have been a terror if I had put a larger 4-stroke engine in it. A lot of the guys that raced them would put 80cc dirt bike engines into them and they were pretty mean. But I think a 125 4-stroke engine of some sort would have been perfect. All in all it was a really fun bike but just too damn slow when you can jump on any old streetbike and rip off down the road at 100mph in 7-10 seconds.