2010-2011 The YAMAHA-YZ250

Yamaha's off road bike saga began after WW-II, when Gen-Ichi Kawakimi - then president of the "Nippon Gakki Company" - decided to make use of a production line & tooling that had previously been used to produce aircraft propellers, to produce the forerunner of Yamaha dirt bikes. Yamaha, named after it's founder - Toracusu Yamaha separated from the Nippon Gakki Company, and produced the DT1- a