YZF750 production years

had a fella from a bike shop look at my bike yesterday and he was trying to
tell me that it was a 1989 build and imported in 1993. Yamaha didn't make a
YZF750 until 1993, and I can't recognise anything the compliance plate that
suggests it's an import. Now before I make a total ass of myself, can
anyone confirm the earliest build data of the YZF750, and aso if possible
how to recognise an import compliance plate... (I always thought they had
import printed on them in the chassis number or on the plate somewhere...)

Thanks
Andy

 

http://www.motoracing-japan.com/result/spl/898h.html

They were racing YZF750's in 1989. By the looks of things they did well in qualifying, but either
didn't finish or came dead last in the race itself.

 

Taken from http://www.petergoddard.com/about2.shtml

"Goddard's overseas results in 1989 included winning the final round of the All-Japan Formula One
Championship at Tsukuba on a works Yamaha YZF750"

Was a 2-stroke though from what I can see in other links (not knowing much about these bikes
myself).

 

http://www.roadracers.co.uk/yamahas.htm

This site has a 4-stroke example.

 

YZF750 was Yamaha's code for their Formula One racing-bike from a long time
back (YZR = 2 stroke, YZF = 4 stroke) and I'm sure that's what you're
turning up in your searches.
The road-going equivalent was the FZ/FZR. (Same as Honda RVF and VFR).

After the death of the Formula One series they called the road-bike the YZF
so it seemed faster!
(I don't know when but '93 sounds about right. Of course; sometimes they
change the Japanese domestic model earlier than the world model so he might
be telling the truth too!)

 

Ask these guys;
http://pub28.ezboard.com/fexupbrotherhoodfrm19

 

I think you may be misinterpreting the reference to "two stroke power
delivery". The bit about problems with valves should be a dead give away.

Moike

 

First imported in Australia in 1993. I remember reading in the AMCN review at
it's launch I think at Phillip Island. The only thing they could fault about
the bike was that the brakes were too good. I think one of the reporters
grabbed a handful of brake and flipped the bike in the pits. Yamaha
eventually offered owners a free replacement brake pad compound which was more
user friendly.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Knobdoodle's memory is far better than mine about F1 750 bike racing, but
the naming of the road bikes based on SBK production racers, I beg to
differ.
The 4 stroker Sport Production (SP), was called the 'OW31,YZR750SP
The street production bike was the YZF750R, introduced into Aust. in 1993,
in 2 colours, the main one, white & pink, the other brown/black, I think.
In the Jap. naming alphabet, F = Flared street bike; R = Racing: S = Half
flared: RR = Race Replica;
N= Non flared.
The FZ's certainly were raced, but were never designed as race bikes, just
street bikes that were hacked into service as a racer.
The TZR 2 strokers were the real racers at the time.

So ends the lesson for today, children.

Rob.
Shoot me down in flames,
I think I am right this time.

 

More than just nice looking, a very close cousin (feelwise not literally) to the
first R1 with Ohlins suspension stock. VERY nice bit of kit. Sharp handling like
a 99 R1 (ie before the R1 got tamed), sweet motor, excellent brakes.

JL

 

That was the white one with the pink bits. Nice bike. Two Wheels did a
panic write-up (beat-up) on the brakes and claimed credit for the factory
doing a fix.

I was told by a dealer that the 'fix' consisted of a stamp in the manual,
but who knows?

 

[scrathes head and stares at blackboard]
What the F?
FZ750s were raced in production and superbike racing from their
introduction in 1985 until they were replaced by the alloy delta-box framed
FZR750s in about 1987 (although Fabrizio Pirovano still raced the
fully-faired FZ750U in the World Supers rather than the FZR... but no-one
knows why....).
The last of the FZR750s was the FZR750RR-OW01 of 1991/2 and then the YZFs
took over (on the road. The Formula-One bikes were always called YZFs).

The YZR (not T) 2 strokes were the real racers of the time (from about
1983-2001).
~

About the colour-schemes; yes.
Clem

 

The F1 formula lasted a few more years in the endurance guise before the
Superbike formula totally replaced it.
the Suzuka 8 Hour, Barcelona 24Hour, Bol D'or, Le Mans etc (and even the
Phillip Island 6 Hour) were F1 events (with Superbikes as a lesser class)
until the early 90s.
After that the RVF750 and the YZF750 names were used on the road bikes to
show that they were "true" racers!!
Clem

 

Knobdoodle,
I bow and scrape, and the feet of the Guru,and ask for to be spared the rod.
My knowledge of ancient motorcycle history, is obviously flawed, o Master.

 

baaah i told him all he knows............i own one

a sweet, 93, pearl white, cherise (its not pink) and aqua yzf750r - 22 thou
kays

excellent bike, less err portly than the zx7r and to a lesser extent the
zx636r , feels like riding a the trx, only lots smoother and lotsa faster

--
cb250rs->gpx600r->xj650->fzs600->trx850->zx7r->trx850->900ss->zx636r->yzf750
r.


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