When the concept of mass-produced dirt bikes was still in its infancy, this bad boy already called trails and unpaved roads its home. When Yamaha decided to tap into the off-road segment with the DT-1 ...

Up until the 60s, if you wanted to ride off-road, you would usually simply convert a conventional street bike into something more useful off-road. Motocross was taking off in a big way, so off-road ...

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It was 1955 when Yamaha Motor Co. was founded, expanding the Japanese company's focus from manufacturing musical instruments to motorcycles. To no surprise, the company applied the same precision ...

The Yamaha DT-1 was the first two-stroke that was actually made to be a dirtbike. Single-cylinder, lightweight, long-travel forks, better shocks-that kind of stuff. I'd been riding BSAs and Triumphs ...