Welcome to 'www.classicyams.com', the site dedicated to all classic YAMAHA motorcycles, road/race/off-road, 2/4 stroke and the men who rode them as well! Ludy Beumer

For our section 'Yamaha Classic Owners', we are looking for stories of other Classic Yamaha enthousiast from all over the world, so please don't hesitate to send us your story and images!

When you look for a model, just type the name, like YDS3, in the top right "search" space, all relevant articles will show up (do not type Yamaha, only the modelname!)

Website "constructed" by Remko Visser, Yamaha Motor Europe N.V.

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BASICALLY THERE ARE WEEKLY UPDATES !!

June 6, 2010

Dear Yamaha fans and collectors!

Colin MacKellar, author of several Yamaha books, has just completed his latest superb book: "Yamaha Street Bikes 1955-2009". It is available now from your local bookstore under ISBN 978-1-84797-163-0

Aug 17, 2010

Richard Tracey, who has been featured regularly on these pages, is building a new Yamaha "Special", based upon a Yamaha TD1C, but with muuuuuch better handling and steering!

Aug 17, 2010

Rolf Fritzsche from Germany was very lucky. He found a very complete Yamaha AS-2 in untouched condition. A bit of cleaning and he has a perfect bike!

Aug 12, 2010

Tomas Karlsson from Sweden had his first ride on his Yamaha semi-works replica (Y)Z-608 350 cc racer and it did very well last weekend!

Mark Cowdery from England finally found a Yamaha YD1 250 cc in pretty good condition. It is much rarer than a Bugatti Veyron! And it is more than 50 years old!

Aug 9, 2010

This picture I just received from a true enthusiast, about him later. It is the most intrigueing picture i have ever seen. It "breathes" the atmosphere in those early Yamaha racing years in Japan.

Aug 6, 2010

The Yamaha Trailmaster is practically unknown outside the USA, here is the brochure of this 80 cc machine.

Aug 3, 2010

The Yamaha MF1 is now nearly ready. If your are interested, please follow the (nearly) last steps in building this rare old Yamaha moped.

Aug 3, 2010

Tomas Karlsson sent some more engineering details about his marvellous Yamaha YZ608 replica racer. He is a far better engineer than I am, that is for sure!

July 21, 2010

Dear Yamaha fans, who can help me....?????? I am now going to try to restore a MF2 moped.

Most of the parts are there but I need the side-covers. I can make them in fibre-glass but the easiest is to use a pair originals as pattern. Who has a set that I can loan/borrow, pay for, whatever you want????????  You can see the shape on the small pics.

July 20, 2010

I received a great picture last week (details later). Yamaha's first production twin, the YD1, on the assembly line in Japan. A truly historical picture!

July 19, 2010

Luca Bali, Webmaster of the "TZ Club Italia" likes your attention to their new website. With your "Google" bar you can translate the site easily. Lots of information!

July 16, 2010

Yamaha race fan Warren Warner from Wisconsin, USA, found this great article about a race between a Yamaha racer and a Helicopter over a closed circuit. Nice reading!

July 14, 2010

An excellent source of parts for street and racing bikes might be: www.classicracing.nl.

You find the new link on the link page: HERE! A must for all of you!

July 14, 2010

Guy Reynolds from Yamaha US (Kennesaw, Georgia) was so kind to send this fantastic picture of one of the earliest Yamaha riders in the US, Roxy Rockwood.

March 23/April 2, 2010

After the Yamaha YGS1 Paul Simmonds from the U.K. quickly restored a Yamaha RD250DX 1977 bike in just 2 months! That guy is very, very quick!  Look at the results!

March 23, 2010

This week we go to Bavaria, Germany! Stefan Edmueller built from scrap parts already back in 1985 a Yamaha TX750 Cafe Racer! It is fast and very reliable too.....!

March 16,2010

Walter Williamson from South Africa has a very nice Yamaha FS1, the original fast motorcycle!

March 15, 2010

Ross Yeatman from New Zealand did his best to buid a stunning Yamaha YL1 100 cc bike.

March 9, 2010

George Taylor, who is 71 years young, went to Daytona for the 51st time !!!! But this was his first time as owner, so not as a rider. Read his fascinating diary! George added his boat-racing career and his ultimate achievement during the Daytona 2000 races!

Here is George (2nd from the left) with from the the left: Nigel, Marty Lunde, Chris Spargo (George's rider this year) and Chris' Mother and Father.

Feb 22, 2010

Tom Craig from Canada found a Yamaha Trailmaster in quite complete condition. See for yourself! This is the ideal restoration project as it is too cold to ride in Canada now I think!.

Feb 16, 2010

Kurt Swenson from Connecticut, USA, is typical of those guys with a long Yamaha inspired racing career. He is telling us how he got "hooked" on Yamaha TZ racers (and others too!)

Jan 29, 2010

I found some old color slides and pictures from Giacomo Agostini, Jarno Saarinen, Teuvo Lansivuori and Kent Andersson, those are added to their respective files. Please note: (4 direct links for each rider)

Jan 29, 2010

Leo Commu was a very talented Dutch rider at the end of the 1960's. Apart from being a good rider, he was also a very skilful mechanic and builder. Here are the pictures from his 1971 Yamaha TD2 "Special".

Jan 18, 2010

The Yamaha TR2 production racer was the machine all private racing riders were waiting for. Fast enough to compete with nearly all factory bikes of that time, it was the machine to have in 1969 and later of course! And it really came with a kickstarter as you can see....!

Jan 11, 2010

Fried Anepool, the founder of the Dutch "Yamaha 650 twin club Nederland", now in its 20th year already ! gave me these excellent old press pictures at the occasion of the 40 th anniversary ot this fabulous twin!