Yamaha
DT-07 Flat Track Concept Bike
Yamaha
Motor Corporation, U.S.A., today unveiled a radical new flat track concept bike
at the AIMExpo in Orlando, Florida’s Orange County Convention Center.
Codenamed
the “DT-07,” the bike is a one-off creation designed and built by Jeff Palhegyi
Design in conjunction with Yamaha’s U.S. race shop. The DT-07 features a
special race-tuned FZ-07 twin-cylinder engine with an exhaust system created by
Graves Motorsports.
With
its one-piece bodywork resplendent in 60th-Anniversary race livery, the DT-07
features a purpose-built frame, swingarm with an adjustable pivot and link
system, modified R6 conventional-style forks, an Ohlins rear shock, wheels by
Propulsion Labs, and of course, the FZ-07’s compact, liquid-cooled,
fuel-injected, twin-cylinder engine is the focal point of the machine.
One
of our specific goals with the DT-07 was to retain some of the FZ-07’s styling
cues. The entire bike was essentially built from
scratch, and it is Yamaha’s interpretation of what a dirt tracker designed from
the ground up in 2015 should look like.
