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Post by solo2racr on Jul 3, 2008 10:21:04 GMT -5
That's one of the things I learned working on these things (Honda and Yamaha in general) is that Honda tends to put alot of gimmicks on their bikes but Yamaha tend to stick to sound, basic engineering. The only two things I can think of that Yamaha did back then to their bikes that was gimmicky is the Y.I.P.S. (waste of time) and the Y.P.V.S. ( good enough to get copied by most everyone). Both of these things are 2 stroke innovations which Yamaha was already the king of.
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Post by StewRoss on Jul 4, 2008 2:16:05 GMT -5
Then there was YEIS...Yamaha Energy Induction System...that I know did work! SR  |
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Post by dutchcool on Jul 29, 2008 2:25:46 GMT -5
What i found to be a great advantage of the XT/SR in comparisant to the Honda XL : More motor oil to keep the engine cool and lub ed ! ( dry sump ) Ball bearings ! Bigger airfiler ( the XL/XR sucked a hole in a dirty filter ) ! The Yamaha's didn't have a Honda name on there Tank's ! ( Amen ! )  |
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Post by aero on Jul 29, 2008 4:43:50 GMT -5
I'd have to echo solo2racr's comments.
I worked in a dealership that sold honda/yamaha/suzukis and worked on anything. I always remeber having loads of warranity recall with Honda bikes, so much so I could never work out why that got a reptuation for being reliable. There was shrine to Honda's erm 'reliability' in the form a picture of the workshop, with every space taken by brand new CX500 engine stripped down for modifactions (about 20 of the in all) although the cx500 was before my time Hondas did seem more fiddly and although made very accurately there was always less you could do to repiar one due to the lightweight/complicated make up of the parts.
yamahas were easy and more reliable, and much simpler machines by and large, although they did make a few howlers.
I remeber taking a BSA apart and not being able to believe what I saw. After working on an XS650 I couldn't get my head round what a heap of crap the engine was. The mains were like the wheel bearing off the XS. Although there were 100 and 1 ways to repair the BSA it seemed you needed to know every one of them. Still shouldn't be too harsh on the old crap, I learnt a fair bit about bikes from them.
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