1968 Yamaha 250 DT1 Single Road Test / Specs

...Now a Japanese manufacturer has built a motorcycle - from drawing board to finished product - with only one customer in mind, the U.S. off-road citizen. Yamaha's new DT1 is as American as Coca Cola. The fact that it can be ridden on the street is an added bonus. Very efficient lighting and silencing make the DT1 a most pleasureable mount for going to the market. Or if called upon to make a highway jaunt. The 5-speed transmission allows 60 mph at a modest 6000 rpm, while bottom is low enough for plonking through the woods...

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