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Is i t a dirt bike, a street bike, or both? Yamaha's all-new TDM850 is a li q uid-cooled, five-valves-per-cylinder twin with long-travel suspension and it's all street!
The 600cc Seca II is powered by an
air-cooled four-cylinder engine with
a six-speed transmission.
amaha recen tly unveiled its lin e
of 1992 street and o rr-roa d mo tor cycles at the company 's annua l
dea ler sho w, which th is year took pl ace
in O rl and o, Flor ida. Yamaha will offer
25 models for '92, in cl ud in g th ree new
mode ls : T he 600cc Seq. II a n d
T DM850, stree t bikes, and the XT 225
Serow dual -purpose bike. Also bei ng
offered for the first time by Yamaha
. in the U.S. is a bike with an anti-lock
braking system, the FJI200ABS.
Perh aps the most interesting of the
1992 models is the uni q ue-loo king
T DM850, a motorcycle that ma kes one
ask, is it a dirt bike, a stree t bike, or
both?
Looking more like a Paris-to-Dakar
rall y bike than anyth ing else, the
TDM850 is a fu ll-£ledged stree t bike,
powered by an 849cc, liquid-cool ed
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Yamaha's popular sport-touring FJ1200 is basically unchanged for '92, except
it 's now offered with or without an anti-lock braking system (ABS).
Yamaha added another motorcycle to
its dual sport line - the electric-start,
four-stroke XT225 Serow.
twin cylinder engine, bui lt wit h the
same five-valves-per-cylinder design
that powers Yam ah a' s FZRIOOO street
bike. The in -li ne twin engine is surro unded by a ligh tweight Deltab ox
fram e. wi th long- tra vel sus pension 6.3 inc hes up front and 5.5 in ches in
the back.
T he DeCarbon typ e gas /oil rear
shock. whic h is mo u nted directly to
the box-section swingarm, features
variable-rate rebound damping and
pre load adj ust ments , while the telescopic fork features 41mm stanchion
tubes and a cartr idge design.
T he T DM850 was recen tly introd uced in Eu ro pe, crea ting a n ew
category designa tio n th ere - " New
Sport," mean in g it manages to mer ge
state-of-the -art supersport racing technology and perform an ce with all of the
