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yamaha xt500
engine - 498cc air-cooled single horsepower - 40bhp top speed - 95 mph production - 1975/1985. info...
1976
1976 yamaha xt500
this model was developed as a desert race enduro machine. released as a street-legal version of the tt500 enduro machine launched the year before, this model became the pioneer of the big single off-road genre. it was the focus of attention also for the bold adoption for the first time ever of a forward inclining upside-down rear suspension on a trail model. it was on an xt500 that the sonauto yamaha team’s cyril neveu won the motorcycle division of the 1st paris dakar rally in 1979.
1976
1976 yamaha xt500
air cooled, four stroke, single cylinder, sohc, 2 valves per cylinder 30bhp @ 5800rpm 5 speed single drum brakes 59mpg 100mph 139kg this model was developed as a desert race enduro machine. released as a street-legal version of the tt500 enduro machine launched the year before, this model became the pioneer of the big single off-road genre. it was the focus of attention also for the bold adoption for the first time ever of a forward inclining upside-down rear suspension on a trail model. it was on an xt500 that the sonauto yamaha team’s cyril neveu won the motorcycle division of the 1st paris dakar rally in 1979.
1976
Yamaha XT500
1976
Yamaha XT500C
USA Specification Model.
1977
Yamaha XT500
1977
Yamaha XT500D
1979
1979 yamaha xt500
1979
Yamaha XT500
1980
Yamaha XT500
1980
Yamaha XT500
1981
Yamaha XT500
1983
Yamaha XT500
1984
Yamaha XT500
1984
Yamaha XT500
1986
Yamaha XT500
1986
Yamaha XT500
1988
Yamaha XT500
