Yamaha DT360 – RT-1/2/3

It’s a well-established fact that when Yamaha whipped the covers of the DT-1 trail bike at the 1967 Tokyo Motorcycle Show, the bike world was slack-jawed.

Here was a purpose-made trail bike from Japan and made for series production rather than being essentially hand-built as were the Spanish and Scandinavian bikes of the time. The 250 single had been in development since 1966 and on American soil but no one had