Big Bore Retro: Motorieep turns the XT600E into a 60-hp monster… In 1990, Yamaha introduced the XT600E, an electric-start version of their fabled 595cc air-cooled single-cylinder dual-purpose machine. The original XT500 was a legend in […]
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Retromotard: Yamaha XT600 Supermoto
Yamaha XT600 “Funbike” from Warkot Motorcycles… The Yamaha XT600 is one of those big, beefy single-cylinder dual-sports that’s as likely to survive the apocalypse as anything on two wheels. The XT featured 10 inches of […]
Retro Enduro: Yamaha XT600 Vinduro
VMX-Style XT600 from Garage Esquinita… Back in 1984, Yamaha introduced the XT600, their new “go-anywhere, do-anything flagship. The 595cc dual-purpose machine could be traced back to the iconic XT/TT500 models, which had proved their […]
Ultra Lightweight 500: TT-Powered Yamaha XT500 Street Tracker
From Eric Dean Design: Yamaha XT500 Meets Suzuki TL1000R… The street-legal Yamaha XT500 and its off-road sibling, the TT500, quickly made a name for themselves in the late 1970s. Not only did they win […]
Yasuke: Yamaha XT600E Street Tracker
Retro-futuristic XT600 from WKND Customs… Introduced in 1984, the Yamaha XT600 was the last of the Yamaha single-cylinder four-stroke XT lineage that began with the legendary XT500, winner of the first running of the […]
Sonauto Edition: Yamaha XTZ750 Super Ténéré
Dakar-inspired Super Ténéré 750 from BIKE Factory… In 1947, famed French racing driver Toto Veuillet founded Saône-Auto (Sonauto), which would become France’s first importer of Porsche cars and Yamaha motorcycles. Sonauto was involved in many […]
Continent Crusher: Yamaha Ténéré 700 Custom
Etto Motorcycles Recreates a Trans-Australian Ténéré… The original Yamaha XT600Z Ténéré launched in late 1982, and it brought some serious innovation to the enduro / dual-sport world. Named after the brutal desert section of […]
Electric Boogie: Yamaha XT500 Restomod
Electric Start, Air-Cooled: Motogadgets’ 1980 Yamaha XT500… By the early 1970s, the big single-cylinder four-stroke off-roader was thought a species all but extinct. After all, the great British 500 singles like the BSA B50 […]
La Bastarda: Yamaha XT550 Restomod Scrambler
In 1982, Yamaha released the XT550 as the next evolution of their four-stroke dual-purpose single-cylinder motorcycle. The 550 had big shoes to fill, as the XT500 it replaced was a multi-time winner of the Paris […]
Bring the Kick Back: Yamaha XT600Z Ténéré
80s Rally Bike from The Kickback Company… At the 1985 Paris Motorcycle Show, Yamaha unveiled the second-generation XT600Z Ténéré 1VJ — a bike intended to be even closer to the company’s factory rally bikes. As […]
