{"id":21,"date":"2007-04-19T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joewelder.com\/2007\/04\/19\/the-yamaha-80-tt-bike\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T23:34:47","slug":"the-yamaha-80-tt-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/joewelder\/2007\/04\/19\/the-yamaha-80-tt-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yamaha 80 TT bike. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/joewelder\/wp-content\/180.jpg\" alt=\"The Yamaha 80 TT\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" \/>My first &#8220;real&#8221; motorcycle was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yamaha-motor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha<\/a> 80, I got from a girlfriend \u2013 her Dad backed over it with his wagon.<\/p>\n<p>My Dad and I straightened the frame, hand cut then \u201cbobbed\u201d the rear fender, took the emblems off, painted it orange and went racing.<\/p>\n<p>I will never forget that Tuesday night &#8212; a school night.  We went to Trojan Speedway in South Gate CA, a sticky little clay oval next to the LA river, behind the rock quarry, east of downtown LA.<\/p>\n<p>My Dad stopped at Kmart to get a helmet. For $14.95. I remember thinking, \u201cis that all my head&#8217;s worth?\u201d  Dad checked the specs and said  \u201cIt\u2019s Snell approved.\u201d It was a cool looking orange metal flake Grant helmet.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the races! &#8220;I got so excited I let the clutch out early and jumped the start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That race was an eye opener &#8212; the other bikes were fast and highly modified so we bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclemuseum.org\/halloffame\/hofbiopage.asp?id=145\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Clymer\u2019s <\/a>book \u201cHow To Tune A Two Stroke Engine.\u201d I learned early on to research what others have done, it\u2019s your quickest way to the top.<\/p>\n<p>We first went to work on the engine, a rotary valve design which was easy to hop up, new valve, over-bored 7 port barrel, single-ring cut-skirt piston, machined radial head and total loss ignition system.  Finished it off with a tuned exhaust custom fabricated and artfully oxy acetylene welded by Dick Haycock. A beautifully rolled and formed expansion chamber complete with a 7\u201d X 1\/2\u201d stinger tip \u2013 that thing screamed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first &#8220;real&#8221; motorcycle was a Yamaha 80, I got from a girlfriend \u2013 her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-joe-welder","category-memory-lane","category-motorsports","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Yamaha 80 TT bike. . .  - 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