The very popular Yamaha TDR250 has been around for many a year now – we’re talking 1988 when this amazing bike first debuted.
It was a typically brilliant bike from Yamaha, a company that (arguably) delivers bikes that are just that little bit left field. Think of the VMAX, the original 250 and 350LC, the FJ family, the 20-valve FZ750 and the modern three-wheeled Niken.
The TDR took the superb parallel twin two-stroke motor from the TZR250 and placed it in a sit-upand-beg chassis which was much more comfortable. Some say it preceded the supermoto craze by some years – perhaps that’s why (back in the day) it never really took off, but it has in the last two decades, meaning that a new fan
