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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...