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The Yamaha YZ450F is a four-stroke racing motocross bike built by Yamaha Motor Corporation.It was the successor to the previous YZ426F which was discontinued in 2003. It is credited by Cycle World and Dirt Rider magazines as the bike that started the four-stroke dirt bike revolution.
The first bike manufactured by Yamaha was actually a copy of the German DKW RT 125; it had an air-cooled, two-stroke, single cylinder 125 cc engine [1] YC-1 (1956) was the second bike manufactured by Yamaha; it was a 175 cc single cylinder two-stroke. [1] YD-1 (1957) Yamaha began production of its first 250 cc, two-stroke twin, the YD1. [1]
Manufacturers kept plugging away at roughly the same recipe for decades until Yamaha released its YZ400F four-stroke dirt bike, which won its first race (1997 Las Vegas Supercross) with relative ease.
Although the advancement of two-stroke engine technology was the primary focus of the major Japanese motorcycle manufacturers well into the mid 1990s, a rekindled interest in engineering a competitive, lightweight four-stroke motocross race bike was expressed among several brands, including Yamaha Motor Corporation and Husqvarna.
Yamaha introduced the WR 400F in 1998. The 400F is a 400 cc (24 cu in) four-stroke off-road motorcycle produced for three years, beginning in 1998 and ending in 2000 (only the YZ was upgraded to 426 cc in 2000). The WR400F is related to the YZ400F, a motocross model.
The Yamaha YZ250F is a motocross motorcycle first released in 2001 by Yamaha. It features a DOHC , four-stroke engine and initially had a steel frame and subframe in 2001–2002. In 2003 it received an aluminum subframe, which was replaced in the 2006 model with an all-aluminum frame.