2011 Yamaha Two-Stroke Line-up?
These photos were posted on a few different web sites. If these are correct, it looks as though Yamaha has made very few changes to their bikes for 2011.
Still it’s great that a major manufacturer continues to sell two-stroke motocross bikes.
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By bleake637 on June 23rd, 2010 at 11:50 pm
damn Yamaha, they just keep breaking my heart every year with the hope! I might have to buy a Katoom this year! At least they’re still making them…
By powerband4 on June 24th, 2010 at 12:14 am
ive got a 2009 yz125 and it looks exactly like the one up there except the graphics but they have a good thing going why mess with it i guess they will update it when they need to or maybe they will drop it like all the rest of the japan companies
By factoryX on July 3rd, 2010 at 4:34 am
so freaking funny that nothing has changed to the yz250 since 2000-2001….ROFL
By yz125rider157 on July 5th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
I think i have a theory for why their bikes have not changed these past two years. Yamaha keeps producing two strokes because they are selling well. So they stopped making changes to the bikes so that people would stop buying them, when people stop buying them they will have an excuse to stop producing two strokes and focus on their 4 jokes. That is just my wild guess.
By factoryX on July 6th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
you are correct sir.
By lastchancebev on July 8th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Yamaha is a business and so it continues to make the 2 strokes BECAUSE they sell well, not in spite of it. The reason they are unchanged is because they have no competition in the market place. Manufacturers continue to update their machinery to keep in line and attempt to get ahead of the competition. When that competition disappears there is no reason to invest huge amounts of R+D money into making improvements. The YZ125 and 250 are real cash cows for Yamaha currently, instead of having a 3year pay off on the 2005 developments as it would have previously done it will now do it over 7! Whilst they continue to sell in large numbers and are still very profitable they will continue to make them.
By yz125rider157 on July 8th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
You have a great point. If they changed them up and made them more appealing and lighter though they would probably sell twice as well. I wouldn’t care less if they changed the plastics or graphics, I just wish they would make them lighter than the 250fs.