He came out of nowhere in 1973, was named to the MXDN team in his rookie year, blazed a trail across the AMA Nationals in 1974 and disappeared Read More...
"The Monoshock system started the whole suspension revolution because everybody eventually went to a single shock. Yamaha was the first factory to recognize that increasing rear-wheel travel would allow you to go faster over the bumps." Read More...
Yamaha was ready to take the works Monoshocks (originally labeled the Monocross by Yamaha) from the limited-production 1974 YZ models to mass-production machines in 1975. Read More...