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£2,200
1986 Yamaha TY250, 246cc. Registration number C181 JGL. Frame number 59N 001784. Engine number 59N 001784.
Sold with the V5C, Yamaha dating letter, expired MOT.
Having come to dominate the spheres of road racing and moto-cross, the major Japanese motorcycle factories turned their attention to the trials world in the early 1970s, recruiting top British riders to assist with machine development. In Yamaha’s case this meant Mick Andrews, late of Ossa, who began work on the TY250 in 1973. A conventional, air-cooled, single-cylinder two-stroke equipped with Yamaha’s reed-valve induction, the TY250 proved good enough for Andrews to win the arduous Scottish Six Days Trial in 1974 and the model went onto establish a formidable reputation in observed trails. Mono-shock rear suspension and a six-speed gearbox were among the innovations tried, both of which later found their way on to the production model.
This example was first registered in the UK in 2018 to Martyn Smith, who fully restored it, our vendor bought it from him and has used it very lightly.
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