{"id":5371,"date":"2009-08-18T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2022-06-21T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:14:06","slug":"yamaha-moto-bike-bmx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/yamaha-moto-bike-bmx\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day You&#8217;ll Own a Yamaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_1.jpg\" alt=\"Moto_Bike_1\" width=\"487\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_1.jpg 487w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_1-278x218.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>In the protean cultural mass that was the mid seventies, the Yamaha Moto Bike was a classic bit of corporate kidsploitation.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/ca2\/dtown\/\">Dogtown the Z-Boys<\/a> were riding pools in long white tube socks in the first skateboarding wave, spanking Chargers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camaros.org\">Camaros<\/a> were cruising the wide boulevards of Detroit despite the oil crisis. And <a href=\"http:\/\/bmxculture.blogspot.com\/\">BMX<\/a> riding grommets were defining the cycling version of a faddish culture that would by the turn of the century flower into an Olympic discipline.<\/p>\n<p>You could see Yamaha&#8217;s logic. Draw in a future generation of YZ series motorcross riders by using their hard won expertise in producing a pedalled version of the crosser for the kids. Brand loyalty garnered. A youth cult created.<\/p>\n<p>Except, the Moto Bike, while undeniably cool through the retrospective gaze of the 21st century, didn&#8217;t work, despite the extensive marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Its oil-damped shocks were super heavy, interminably slow, soft and weighty. The heavy gauge frame was also ponderous and over-rigid. The whole issue was extremely tail-happy \u2013 which allowed for wickedly easy wheelies but was wholly, ridiculously, inappropriate for racing (this was way, way before the real growth of freestyling).<\/p>\n<p>The kids had it sussed. The men in suits missed a trick, and as soon as we could save up, me and my mates bought a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikepics.com\/kawasaki\/kx250\">KX 250<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5387\" title=\"Moto_Bike_3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_3.jpg\" alt=\"Moto_Bike_3\" width=\"416\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_3.jpg 416w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_3-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Moto_Bike_3-278x255.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate exploitation: a tale of BMX dreaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,110],"tags":[251,2077,2815,247],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-blog","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-japanese-bikes","tag-yamaha","manufacturers-yamaha-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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