Perfectly formed!
Every now and then you just know, regardless of engine capacity, a certain bike is going to be a hoot to ride.
Sometimes that feeling may come from a machine’s reputation, it could be the model has a certain cachet or it’s simply the supposed inherited DNA. In the case of this particular machine it’s probably the genetic make-up of Yamaha two-stroke twins that gives the game away. From the firm’s earliest offering of the YDS1 sports twin through the entire RD range, then the seminal LCs and on to the TZRs, every machine therein had been performance orientated. Our blue and white test bike may ‘only’ carry a nominal 100ccs of swept volume, but there’s almost an unwritten guarantee that each single cubic centimetre will have a little touch of the Iwata magic. That diminutive motor will have the essential essences that carried the likes of Read, Duff, Ivy, etcetera over the finish line ahead of the rest.
You may not necessarily have heard of the LS2 as it was never sold in the UK. It’s a machine primarily aimed at
