1966 Yamaha YL1 Full Review (Long Term) | 100 Twin Jet | Vintage Motorcycle Ride
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Today i take a ride on my 1966 Yamaha YL1 100cc Twin Jet vintage motorcycle. This blast from the past is a really fun bike to cruise around on, and i hope you guys enjoy my full review on it!
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LOVED these bikes in the late 60's and early 70's while living in Venezuela. They had a ton of zip and that 2 stroke sound is so memorable! As a young teen riding this bike was a super thrill! We always called them "Twin Jet 100's"..
I have two of these little YL1s which I have restored to showroom condition including many sourced new parts and rechroming. I first saw one in 1967 when as a schoolboy my pocket money was 5/- (25pence) per week) They are very rare now, very sought after, very expensive but great fun to ride. I'm 71 now but still love these little ''Yammys''
wow! thanks for sharing our experience with them. If you ever want to sell your bikes let me know. I may be in the market.
There is a mint one locally for just over $1000 USD that caught my eye, they switched handlebars is about it..
That was my first motorcycle. Got my license with it at 15. Rode it to school. Same color and everything! Great memories!
Me as well!, not sure why he is giving this bike a bad review, back in the day, this bike rocked!!!
@@greglamb2559 I gave this bike no bad review at all
I had a new one in 1967. The engine was the most advanced piston port 2 stroke available at the time and the basis for most of the Yamaha 2 strokes that followed. Your test bike is out of tune! It sounds like your timing is off or some other ignition issue as that engine will rev faster than you've demonstrated in your video. The only issue I had with that bike was that it was sensitive to spark plug heat ranges. If the plug were too hot, at extended higher speeds, which for that bike were in the 65 MPH range. It would fry the plugs electrode. Although I quickly moved up to a Kawasaki Avenger, then onto a 500 triple. The YL1 was my gateway to smokey 2 stroke power and a sweet little machine....
Great little bike, bought one brand new in Malaysia in 1966. Rode it everywhere, including North malaysia to Singapore and return faultless 1600 km trip...never missed a beat. ETANOL GAS??? wouldnt run it in a gokart .!Dispute his claims of lack of waterproofing ......rode my YL100 in monsoon rain in Malaysia.....neat looking bike.....doesnt look like a plumbers nightmare like "modern" bikes! Have ridden bikes for 60 years and owned 25!!
My first bike was a Twin Jet 100. So much fun. Got me around town. Woke the parents up every night when I came home. So used to rev her up, get some speed and then turned the bike off and drifted about half way down the street and into the driveway. My 72 CB 350 was a touch quieter. Only had to turn her off about 3 houses away.........
They were definitely loud bikes! The EPA would never allow a bike to be this loud in stock form these days. Very unique.
That was my first bike, I rode the wheels off it as a young teenager. I could do all the work my self…awesome!
Picked up a wrecked one in the late 60s. Straightened the fork and patched the hole in the crankcase with epoxy. I rode it hard for two years on trails and had a blast with it. It never missed a beat.
FIRST BIKE I EVER OWNED in 1972. Mine wasn't in quite such condition.. but I LOVED it. 27 bikes since
Youngsters, if you get a vintage two stroke, do not treat it the same way when you ride it, as you would a four stroke!!! These engines need higher revs to maintain a healthy spark and combustion, etc. They need a nice high note to sing along!
This comment is why none of them are around anymore and they are in junkyards 😂
I raced these bikes with my Yamaha 80cc back in the day. 🤣😂🤣 The shops pushed this bike to 15-17 hp. My y-80 put out 13 hp with a git-kit....💥
That’s awesome! My dad talks about how these were fast back in their day. The Git-Kit seems like a popular way to go!
Bought one for $250 in the mid-1960's. First bike and I loved it. Friend was riding it and a lady turned left in front of him. he went into her windshield but was ok, slow speeds back then. Then he physically picked up the bike off the ground, carried it to the side of the road and heaved it onto the grass. Did I mention he was a pretty strong guy? :-)
My first bike. Loved it!
Nice! These are sweet!
This was my first motorcycle I owned and rode at 15 (didn't get caught) until I got my license at 16 in 1969. I loved it. I had a black & white painted model. Then I inherited my brother's 305cc YM-1 two-stroke with Yamalube.
You are riding a 60 y/o Japanese motorcycle…..looks and runs great. They made great bikes…..
While there were no good Twin Jets when i wanted a 100cc 2T street bike. if there were id have one for sure. My 74' RS100 is so stupid fun even at 230lb geared up it is unreal sometimes. Long live ANY small cc street 2T. So much fun.
These little bikes are a blast! I would switch to an electronic ignition if i wanted to ride it much though.
I remember when I was a towheaded adolescent, I have seen scads of those Yamaha Twin Jets. Red and blue ones all over Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Sounds like you were lugging it and "not" staying in the rev range for most of the video. Better bike than you think it is.
I was absolutely staying in the optimum rev range for cruising
@@RacerRed Well ok then. I stand corrected. Probably need my ears checked.
@@RacerRed You're absolutely wrong. Should be at least four to five thousand rpm just to cruise along. You are damaging this lovely two stroke by lugging it like that. I've had almost a dozen of them, it was my first bike. Don't ride two strokes this way, you're showing you know little about them.
My dad and uncle and one of their friends went and rode on a 53,000 acre ranch through the desert creek beds and rocky sandy roads on bikes like that in the mid 60's close to big bend national park in south Texas, cool bikes
These old bikes changed so much as manufacturers started to figure out now to make bikes the right way. In The 80's bikes started to become really reliable, but also a lot more boring.
love vintage motorcycles . had one of that same model in 1971 but in blue, nice find
The blue ones looked nice, too. I have seen a couple of these bikes around Idaho but not often.
That is an awesome bike!!
Thanks! It's got like 2 horsepower until you reach 8k RPM ha ha
It seems to be down on power, maybe the engine is worn. I had one as my first bike, and it was pretty quick up to 45 mph . Started first kick every time . If timing is off, this affects it a lot, too, and dirty baffles , air cleaner , choke it down a lot
It runs amazingly. Especially for its age. These bikes are rare these days as people just didn’t know how to maintain them.
Wrong on the speed. Because of the small pistons it would rev a lot higher than the factory spec of 8000 rpm. I had mine to 55 mph in second gear and still pulled at 80 mph in fourth. It held the world speed record for a stock 100cc motor bike at 106 mph at Bonneville in the late 1960's.
I assure you that i'm right on the speed. I know because i currently ride one that runs really well. I also know because I ride with several people who grew up on these bikes and report the same exact speeds. Your "Bonneville" bike must have had twin turbos!
I bought one of these new for 409.00 dollars in 1966, It was blue. I don't remember having any issues with like is mentioned here and I certainly did not have to readjust the points. Try lubing the points cam...
I can’t tell if this is satire but in case it’s not, the points need to be filed every 2-300 miles. It’s a mechanical ignition and that’s how fast it wears down. It’s just that way new, or used. If you never do this your bike will slowly run worse and worse.
@@RacerRed Never happened! I'm a retired Master ASE tech, i started with VW in 1971 and all those cars used points and they did not have this problem unless they were never lubed. Replacement points came with lube on the lube block because too many people installed them dry. Excessive point wear (metal transfer will be cause by a faulty condenser)... My twin-jet 100 did not suffer this issue
@@Bass.Player the points need filed because they make contact many times per minute and they eventually get dirty. The points in a larger vehicle are a bit different. If you never had to file your points and adjust the gap, well, I’m glad your bike was so good to you. The points need lubed, cleaned, filed, and gapped VERY regularly on small engines. Big engines can go longer without maintenance.
I know a lot of older motorcycle mechanics who love these old bikes but they are constantly sanding down the points. Constant maintenance.
If you ever left the key on while the bike wasn’t running it would ruin your points because they would make constant contact. A lot to worry about with these little bikes.
@@RacerRed It has nothing to do with the size of the vehicle....I stated correctly in the previous post... I'm done here, I'm starting to feel like I need a tetanus shot!
@@Bass.Player like I said, if your bike ran for a long time and it never stopped working then you did great.
You should have the pleasure of finding one of these bikes used and ride it. Not many have been maintained well enough to still be around. Most are in junk yards.
Old bikes kan be really bad even bikes from 80 or 90, but properly restored bikes work just fine😊
Since when is a rotary shift bad? Bridgestone was the only one I know of that you could go from fourth gear to neitral. That was a good system. The Bridgestone 175 cc and 350 cc were rotary if you moved a lever on the tranny that eliminated fifth gear. No, you did NOT have to mess with the points every 2 or 3 hundred miles. It's a good thing it isn't electronic ignition. Where would you get parts if it is electronic ignition? Old school bikes are much easier to keep running.
At least you have an opinion based in reality unlike some comments! Personally, i like electronic ignition though. No maintenance, and lasts forever.
You have to hope electronic ignition lasts because at times it does quit. If it is factory electronic ignition (like most recent bikes) and quits you have very little option to repair the ignition. Points can be substituted with similar points from other brands of scooters. Reliability isn't everything. I have my 1965 Yamaha Riverside 55 with 13,000 miles on it that l bought brand new and points ignition is still of little problem but the spark plugs would only last 500 miles before misfiring under load was a problem.
This engine that the time was aircraft standards probably still better than today's metallurgy
Wow, you are so wrong it’s not even funny. No wonder you were butthurt in your previous comment.
I had one that was blue (I don't know what year) and it was a 5 speed, not a four speed.
Definitely some cool looking bikes!
Hieno !! Minulla oli samanlainen vuonna 1970 ....Tätä katsoessa palaa muistot mieleen😍 Asun suomessa ( Finland )
Love this content. Gorgeous bike just packed with character. How long have you owned and maintained this bike?
Thank you! I have had this bike in my possession for around 15 years. My dad gave it to me a while ago, and he built it. He still comes by and tinkers with it once in a while. I can't take credit for maintaining it, although maintenance is very simple. I don't put hardly any miles on it because parts are hard to come by and it wouldn't last long if i was riding it much. Owning this bike a balance between enjoyment as a collectible, and enjoying the ride.
If I were an engineer and mechanic I would definitely recreate and convert this bike to maintain the same standards as a new motorcycle so it would be more durable and have some more horsepower to it
I see videos where people convert the twin jet to electronic ignition
Having visited other sites with this model, riding one in my younger years and reading comments by many readers..........................your review sucks. I stopped at 2:36 !
From your gear changes, it seems that you don't understand how the bike should be ridden !
Thumbs down !
Love you too! Everything I said was accurate, and I am an A class rider. I also have access to several old timers/mechanics that know these bikes in and out.
These things are a lot more robust than you make it out to be. I run normal gas in my 60s 2 strokes and don’t need to adjust my points ever. Also ride in all weather. It’s funny that my 350 cc 2 stroke scrambler sounds exactly like the little 100.
you need to adjust the points ever 200 miles at least. This is true across the board with these old 100cc bikes. They are not more robust than i make it out to be. lol
Good one: long term review
Thanks!
No transmission 😂ever cycled through except a Bridgestone 175. But it had a lever
“Except” means I’m correct and for some reason you’re butthurt
Too cool!
Thanks! love the oldies
The only transmission that Jammed back into first after fourth are none.... You're totally wrong on that buddy... except for the Bridgestone and there was a lever and you can choose you don't know what you're talkin about on that jamming crap I don't know what it is with you new guys
And if it was that way and you can't shift the transmission and don't know what Gear its in you shouldn't be riding a motorcycle
“Except “ means im correct but for sone reason you’re butthurt 😂
I just got one of these a while ago, previously had restored an HS1, and my (supposedly) 70 model YL1E is the same as that above but w the 'electric starter'. However, mine has the 'rotary shift of death' that will roll thru 4th, back to N, then back to 1, just like the 67C2TR kawi that I also currently have. So, it mine might not actually be a 70 even though thats what the title says. Very interesting. As far as ethanol, you can run it on ethanol just fine. I run *all* my 2 strokes on pump gas. there no 'tank lining', its metal. The rubber this is exposed to is the fuel lines, which after 50 years should be long changed out, and the petcock & choke plunger seal. thats it. they survive just fine. My 2 r5s, ds7, t500, 2rd 350s, 67 kawi all run e10 pump gas with zero ill effects. all but 2 bikes are on the injection pump. and i ride my bikes a LOT. Just saying. Nice review though, they are fun little bikes to ride in town for sure.
I ride with a lot of people who are classic motorcycle enthusiasts. We have seen seized engines, and bad lubrication from ethanol. It attracts water, phase separates, causes more detonation, and demolishes old bikes. You are literally the first person I have EVER heard say otherwise. We are extremely careful about putting ethanol in the old bikes.
@@RacerRed look at my youtube vids. all of them run/ran on pump gas. I have never seized a bike due to ethanol fuel, or damaged one because of it. People are way, way too paranoid about ethanol. that's (current bikes) 70hp lc rd hybrid (which ive had for almost 20 years now), 87 tzr250, stock 70 & modified 72 R5, stock 72 ds7, stock 72 T500, hot rodded aircooled 350, and some modern bikes. People blame ethanol for blow ups because they usually don't tune them correctly, sorry, is what it is. And I ride all of my bikes a LOT. as in every day it doesn't rain or is over 45F (in sc) Its like people blaming oil pump failures because they forgot to fill the tank. want fuel to last longer? put 1 oz of 2 stroke oil in 2 gallons of ethanol, will last much, much longer if you are going to let it sit for more than 4-6 mos. Some people are always going to blame it for their woes, i get that. But, in my experience, nope. worried about detonation, up the jetting 10%.. on a stock rd, thats running a 140 main jet, that puts it at roughly 140+14= 155 ish main jet. But i will guarantee it will run too rich & I've never *had* to do this though. .02
You sound like you should be checking out electric bicycles
Sure buddy
The 17-inch that's not a moped size
I buy moped/scooter tires for this bike. Stop being butthurt.. it’s just a motorcycle
It's not that primitive you want it to be, when new they where as good as any bike from the 80's 😅
I want it to be primitive? 80’s bikes have electric ignition and can go 100k miles. The yamahas of the 80’s were so much more refined than this bike its not even funny
Those were made to run wide open throttle there is no cruise I was a kid when these were new as a 10 year old I thought I was on a rocket .Please open the throttle
@@Ekimsrevo engine is designed just like all other two-strokes. Too much throttle for too long is why 99% of these sit in junk yards now and mine is still working great
@RacerRed most of them are in the junk yard because they had value which is good because now there worth a lot crazy some of the values are just had a guy offer too give me a GT380 Suzuki only 10k miles stored dry it was in a basement I just don't have the time to restore it working on a old dodge trk.
De-coke the baffles and mine would do 80 accd. to its' speedo.....
The bike drinks cola, and so it does about 60 tops.