Aluminum Frame YZF !!! For Real!!!!

[Satch0922]

Ok...this is an old article but here is an aluminum framed YZ426F works bike. The concept is not new....just goes to show that Yamaha will release one when it's RIGHT~!

Aluminum YZF

[maf1188]

Thats sweet and when they release it I'm buying it.

[yzernie]

Yamaha has historically used Europe and Japan to do pre-production testing and race testing. There are also secret places here in the states where they conduct testing.

I have it on good authority that the aluminum framed YZ-F will not make it to the showroom until the 2007 model year. Rumor has it there will be a whole frame and engine package. Can't wait!!!

[Keetoman393]

Hey, that's not fair! When will they let the 4 stroke (426 - 450) run the same displacement as the 500 2 strokes??

[1989kx125]

gotta love the works bikes. the dark blue plastic and the black rims really go with the aluminum frame. how many were made?

[SirFallsALot243]

Originally Posted by 1989kx125

gotta love the works bikes. the dark blue plastic and the black rims really go with the aluminum frame. how many were made?

one..

[DPW]

I like this one better

[Satch0922]

how did you find that? Covering the frame with blue is the same thing they did with the 125/250 prototypes while testing.

Looking good!!!

[DPW]

Originally Posted by Satch0922

how did you find that? Covering the frame with blue is the same thing they did with the 125/250 prototypes while testing.

Looking good!!!

Here you go, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

[MotoMan]

I for one really hope they release something new next year....I really don't want to switch brands if I can help it, but next year I am going to need a new ride, and unless Yamaha releases something outstanding...well I will be wearing red at this point.

[DCox]

Originally Posted by MotoMan

I for one really hope they release something new next year....I really don't want to switch brands if I can help it, but next year I am going to need a new ride, and unless Yamaha releases something outstanding...well I will be wearing red at this point.

Jim, check out MXA's review of Heath Voss' YZF450. Yamaha is definitely addressing that heavy center-of-gravity issue by rotating the engine slightly forward, and lowering the radiators, etc. It is all beta stage stuff, but the testers said it handled and felt as nice as a CRF.

I don't mean to be a downer on the aluminum frame, and I hope this is wrong information, but I have read a couple of sources now that have said the YZF's will likely not see aluminum frames until '07. Again, this could be wrong, and it seems odd from a marketing perspective. I do know if they address the high center of gravity (which is highly likely) AND move to fuel injection (which is in the works for all major manufacturers), I probably wouldn't care about the frame as much.

But I would also love to see you ride red! I'll tell you what . . . if you buy a CRF next year, I will personally buy you one of those deluxe Team Honda Woody hats and mail it to you.

[MotoMan]

Originally Posted by DCox

But I would also love to see you ride red! I'll tell you what . . . if you buy a CRF next year, I will personally buy you one of those deluxe Team Honda Woody hats and mail it to you.

I am holding you to that D-cox.

[cowboyona426]

DPW, you've got me feeling all tingly inside with that pic! I hope Yamaha waits until 07 for the aluminum frame and wakes the motor back up, because by then I can probably swing a new ride. If they don't make some big changes to the big blue thumper, I too may be riding red...

[Satch0922]

I am not sure why you guys keep saying you would go red...that baffles me. Not that they are bad bikes....we all know they are fantastic....but if you like Yamahas and know how to work on them why would you change colors? It's not like anyone on this board can fully utilize a YZ450F anyway.

Not trying to start trouble but come on. 2 years ago the YZF was king and none of us could utilize it and now no one wants it? Do we have any Pro level or "A" level riders on this board?

Sorry to rain on everyone's parade and shatter your dreams of being RC, MC, CR, JS...I know that is what we all do on the weekends...but let's ground ourselves for a minute.

You guys are a marketing guru's dream ..............

[yzernie]

Originally Posted by Satch0922

I am not sure why you guys keep saying you would go red...that baffles me.

Sheep.....they will follow each other where ever they go. GO BLUE

[MotoMan]

Originally Posted by Satch0922

You guys are a marketing guru's dream ..............

It's got nothing to do with marketing my friend, it's got to do with the fact that the CRF is a superior ride to the YZF right now anyway you look at it.

I have ridden both, and I like the feel of the CRF, it's a solid ride with the most comfortable ergos I have ever had the pleasure of experiancing. The power is plentiful but very tractable, and the suspension is adequate and up to the task.

No I am not a "A" rider, (although very close to being one at one point in my life) and I cannot use every once of HP that my 450 produces, but I can use more of the HP that the Honda uses because it won't tire me out as fast as my current ride does. If you use the analogy of you can't use all the HP that the bike has stock, then why are you modifing your YZ250? To make the power the way you want it to be....and to me the CRF's power plant is what I want, why buy a Blue bike and try and make it into something that I could just go buy right off the shelf?

As for working on them....come on dude, all of them are relitivly the same anyway, what's the difference if I clean the airfliter on a Honda or a Yamaha?

[MotoMan]

Originally Posted by yzernie

Sheep.....they will follow each other where ever they go. GO BLUE

Again....it has nothing to do with "keeping up with the jones's" it's just I feel the CRF is the best choice on the market right now, and it seams that every magizine in print at the moment agrees with me....imagine that.

[DPW]

Originally Posted by Satch0922

I am not sure why you guys keep saying you would go red...that baffles me.
You guys are a marketing guru's dream ..............

A couple of magazines say the YZF's are top heavy and now nobody can corner on them, they have been top heavy for awhile. How cares you adjust if you have to. I will still be just as slow/quick on Windham's CRF.

[MotoMan]

This is something I didn't even hit on....the feel of the crf in the air.

The yamaha feels large and heavy when chucked off a 80' double, the crf feels more flickable, there is nothing you can do to the Yamaha to get that feel.

Don't get me wrong guys, I have thought long and hard about this, and it wasn't an easy decision for me to make, I haven't owned anything but a Yamaha for over 14 years, but in my own mind I guess it's time for a change.

Besides, what ever happened to the analogy of "pick a color and go ride"??

[yzernie]

Nothing personal...I'm just busting your chops. If you want red, yellow, green, orange then go for it and have as much fun as you can. You'll still be riding and that is all that really counts.