In its second racing event entered, won both the overall and 125cc class honors, starting a racing tradition within Yamaha Learn More: 1955 Yamaha YZ-1 WikiPedia page 1955 Yamaha YZ-1 at Yamaha Motors Global 1975 Yamaha XT500 An enduro that didn't move the benchmark as much as set it ...
The Yamaha YZ450F won the AMA Supercross Championship two years in a row, in 2008 with Chad Reed, and 2009 James Stewart. Yamaha was the first to build a production monoshock motocross bike (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross ...