YAMAHA R5

Great R5 ad from Popular Mechanics, June 1972.

I, as probably most of you, didn't know who came up with the iconic yellow and black/white stripe on Yamaha factory racers of the early ...

Great vintage photos sprinkled throughout this huge thread on the Autosport Bulletin Board . Via A Time To Get .

Ajith wrote in to let me know about the existence of the Rajdoot 350, which was a licensed copy of the Yamaha RD350B, modified to suit India...

Kynan recently wrote in and was asking about the R5 for an interesting project he had in mind for a project bike: My father had a R5 in 1972...

After coming across the BikeEXIF article, I received the following letter and excellent collection of photos from Bob Crossman: Lawrence .....

Steve McQueen's international motorcycle license. Too neat, had to post. Via welovetypography.com

Good article over on the Kneeslider about the German roots of early Yamaha motorcycles .

Compilation of various Yamaha advertising for their RD models over the years. Gotta love the "soundtrack"!

Check out this great archive photo of a clay mockup of the (then unreleased) R5.