I've had this bike laying around for a few years. Got it for $200 with a plate and title. Did not run. Took about 2 hours to make it run and runs great. Got tired of it sitting around and thought about it and realised it would be silly easy to build a scrambler type bike out of and i have a lot of the parts needed. Hope to have it rolling for summer cruising and exploring when i have a few hours etc. what I started with... 2 hours later...
I think the yellow 1978 Yamaha TT's look the best. This one is real nice. It needs a '79 aluminum swing arm to go with that disk front end. Kelly with your TT, with a plate, I would polish it up and list it for $1k, someone may haggle you down to $750-$800. A big bore plated thumper can fetch some $, but you know that.
Thats a nice TT. Well yeah but the exhaust was a rusted mess, the fenders are gone or crap, the seat foam is gone, the tank is a dented mess... really there is a good frame and motor and suspension is fine. Which led me to hack it and do it up. Going to be a really easy project for the most part then can make it real nice down the road if I like it. Figured it might be a fun back road exploring bike of which there is a lot of right from my house. Want to get a disk brake on the front so might be doing a swap there. It was doing nothing and just thought it would be a fun and funky project. I have ridden it around, should make a great small street bike. I had a mint SR500 back in the day and this is faster for sure. Motorcycles are fun.
had a tt for a few years...easy starter, great torque. very odd, confused handling..i dont think the tt knows if its supposed to be on the street or off. i had mine set up with first gen husky ohlins, but it really needed a leading axle front end...other than the odd steering was a great bike and didnt feel heavy even tho it was.. mine had a mikuni vm swapped on (always had lots of those around) and pulled well, dont wait around to get different forks on. i had an offer i couldnt refuse before i had the chance to realize my tt dream..
I had an orange tank TT 500 and graded out a short track here on the farm and had a blast with it play flat tracking. They have a big following in the vintage flat track classes but the steering head angle needs to be tightened up for best results. Our friend here Les Tinus (LTR suspension) has a TT500 project bike with a very rare Dick Mann frame.
My buddy and i built a 84 TT 600 for moto once crazy motor hole shotted John Desoto at an AHMRA race in Texas on a full house wheelsmith 490 Maico wouldn't have believed it but i saw it twice i bet my buddy had 4k in that bike but DAMN
