REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
Oct 29, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS // STEPHEN TUFF
PHOTOS //
KANE O’ROURKE
When Yamaha’s YZ400F arrived in 1998 it signaled the changing of the guard. The lightweight four-stroke boom had begun and by the time the killer 426 arrived two years later you were either on one or trying to keep up on a two-stroke.
Pretty soon the other manufacturers were pumping out four-strokes to compete against this game-changer, but history records that Yamaha started the revolution. More than two decades down the track, these
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