What a privilege to be asked by Clubby to write about what looks set to be a whole new generation of dirtbikes … whoa there hang on a minute! That was the brief for my first Leisky’s Line editorial way, way back in DIRT ACTION issue number one!
That was 25 years ago, when Yamaha turned the MX universe upside-down with the release of the YZ400F in 1997. Here was a four-stroke bike that embodied all