When I was a freshman in high school, before anyone in my circle of friends had a driver's license, one kid in our group had one of these. Needless to say, he was the coolest kid that ever existed on planet Earth at the time.
Sounds like a childhood in Israel, at 16 you could've get a license for a 50cc motorcycle, a license for a car is at 17, so we had no other choice, and you also needed one of the parents to sign off the permit at the DMV. So when I turned 16 I bought an aprilia RS50, my best friend bought a suzuki Wolf, I traded my aprilia for a yamaha DT, 97, with a front disc brake. Now days i have over 4000cc in motorcycles at home and I miss that 50cc feel so much.
Stunning I had the air cooled version back in 86 loved it being 17 it could just about pull the skin off a rice pudding 😄. Great getting up in the morning living in England 🏴 and tuning into you guys 👍
Nice Bike. I've never seen one of these before. The bike that got me into dirtbikes, first I saw and first I rode....1978 Yamaha DT 125 2 stroke, when I was 5 years old. Dad's was a Spearmint Green Metal Tank! Gorgeous. My Uncle had the 78 DT 125 too. His was a Yellow Metal Tank, with white and black. Amazing childhood memories.
here in the Netherlands during the 80's and 90's most 16yr olds were riding Honda MT50 MTX50 MB50 NSR50, Yamaha DT50 or or a Suzuki TS50. great times, i can still remember how it smelled working on them.
Boas a todos,aqui em portugal esta motorizada foi um grande sucesso de vendas e ainda temos muitas a circular eu na altura do lançamento deste modelo era mecânico de motas e arranjei e alterei centenas de motinhas destas e as minhas preparações ficavam sempre em 1 lugar nas corridas ilegais noturnas no distrito de setubal,grande nostalgia ver uma em tão bom estado fisico mas está com a cor do deposito de gasolina errada pois deveria ser azul com letras amarelas essa é a combinação certa para este modelo,eu proprio fui dono de pelo menos 3 iguais desta cor e por isso sei qual a cor certa do deposito e ao todo fui dono de pelo menos 130 unidades de todas as cores do catalgo possiveis,continuem o bom trabalho quem me dera ir trabalhar ai com esta equipe!!!!💪💪💪
Viva, esta unidade nao apresenta poisa-pés para passageiro. Com certeza era averbada nos EUA para uma so pessoa. De notar ainda as diferenças nos piscas e farol traseiro, para os regulamentos do pais em que seria comercializada.
I wish Yamaha would go back and look at these cool small ideas they had, and do them again, esp 2 stroke with new tech! So many very cool bikes that so many would just love to have now!
@@techs1smh13 first thing the lads did to the 50 was order a big bore kit & a Micron exhaust because they were really slow. In mid / late 80s all the lads old enough to get a provisional bike licence (16) had either a DT 50, an mtx 50 or an AR50. My next door neighbour had a lovely white AR80 with lovely decals, his bro had a Pepsi rgv250 , I can near smell the street as I remember,. Gotta love two stroke aromas😎👌🤣
My cousin had one these when we we're kids and I loved it! I was taller and had a Suzuki DS80, he rode mine and I rode this when we rode together.. Good ol' days for sure
Had my first DT50LC YPVS in 1982 in South Africa - produced 7.2kw (I stand corrected) and we removed the baffler to give e a different tone and sprocketed it using a YB100 front sprocket and two teeth less on the rear which would give us 50mph... caveat...I only weighed 65kg then. My best friend and I would go everywhere on them and I did 30 000 km with only I rebore. In July 1983 we left Durban for the Drakensenburg range of mountains - a 320km trip. We left a three in the morning and by the time we got to escort the temperature gauge wasn't recording anything....it just lay all the way to the left. Used to do a lot of trials riding on it to and was nippy and ultra reliable. Possibly the best bike I've had...other my Super Tenere 1200 Worldcrosser 😂
my bro had the red/white DT80 aircooled , same as that really, it was so comfy having a nice low seat height. that bike is phenomenal. better than all the rest imo
In portugal this model is one of the most popular bikes we have and mechanics here explore th big bore kits to the extent of making 30 plus hp and going 99mph
This video is a time machine! That sound! That look. Those clocks I had one when I was 16. I did 12,000 miles in 1 year on it. That's a lot of hours on something that would max out at 45-50 mph. Cost £1,000 or £1,200 in England back in 1989. Every 2 months or so it would lose about 5-10mph top speed. I learned it was some 2-stroke oil coke clogging the exhaust header the engine. 3 bolts to undo to remove the exhaust. I would use elastic bands to tie a rubber glove around the engine end of the exhaust to seal it. Then I would get some caustic soda crystals from the chemist and a bucket in cold water and mix them together carefully - water in the bucket first, followed by slowly adding a few crystals and stiring then a few more and stiring then a few more and staring. Then pour this mix into the end of the exhaust with it standing up against the wall corner. Leave it for 30 minutes. Then pour the dirty mixture away, which was the gunk slowing the bike down. Rinse out the inside of the exhaust with clean water. Refit and ride faster! :-) A quite famous pop star in London had one back then. That's what the bike shop owner told me. And I did see famous people on his wall. He would import exotic bikes we well as "better foreign market" versions. The UK was getting the air cooled - low rev, 30mph, 4 gears only version. But in this video was see the American 6 gears, 50mph version, with 10,000 rpm redline. Great bike back then!
Here in Sri Lanka we had lot of these bikes on an early years.but now its very rare to see due to difficultis in finding spareparts and emmission tests.
For anyone who thinks this bike doesn't have zip or is capable of doing at least 55 mph think again. When I was 14 in 1972, and this is my only comparison experience I had a Chibi mini bike with a two stroke 58cc Briggs and Stratton engine, 3 speed. That bike had zip and it could get up to speed no problem. Great piece Kaplan America 🇺🇸 and thanks for the memories. Grandfather John Pennsylvania
Yamaha always put out these street legal limited production 50cc 2-stroke specials. Even the Rz50 was street legal. Each dealership would only get a few and that would be it.
That bike looks amazing !!! thanks to the internet i keep seeing models that i never knew existed . Seen a MK1 80cc and 125cc but never a 50 . early 80.s In the UK when i was 16 my restricted DT50MX was nothing like this .....although in my mind it was 🤣at the time i would have done anything to own this though.
Phenomenal bikes on this channel constantly, but this is RAD 💥 . Had a Honda ZB 50 but the little wheels were the downer for me cool as it was at the time 🙂💫✨⚡️
i just bought mine last November and its been a little kick ass bike. it had 8000km and was sitting for 5 years not running i had to replace the carb,cables, forks and clean the gas tank but she is a little weapon now just took her on her first enduro ride about a week ago and she almost kept up with the big bikes🙂
I do ride my 50cc from time to time. I remember it felt so fast when i first got it. With a 65cc big bore kit I felt like I was the fastest, zipping around local trails at 40mph.
aquí son ciclomotores y no pueden pasar de 45 kph unas 27 mph pero con unos ajuste básicos se des limitan y corren 70-90 kph ( escape y carburador) así es España :( un abrazo equipo 😀
A friend of mine has that's motorcycle in 75 CC Air cooled, the engine is the old one, diferent. That's engine is 72cc in Spain, it's used in the latter model DT water cooled and the Tzr 80 Deltabox (i own one Marlboro réplica Rainey full fairing1991), just change the pipe and run about 140kph, love It screaming at 13.000rpm...
@@KaplanCyclescracking little bike.. while i never had one i did ride one a few times and i can confirm that for a luttle 50 these things are rocket ships.... and still big enough for a full sized adult
Dt-50 has alot of potential. Mine, bored now to around 56 cc (max is 60cc with stock cylinder) do 56 mp/h all day with a tooth more in front sprocket, i am 6 feet, 200 pounds.
The reason I ride a 50cc is because of the Sons of Anarchy wannabes who pushed through a no helmet law ! Now the insurance in Michigan is so outrageous it’s counterproductive to ride a bike ! I remember $35.00 a year insurance for almost any bike. Now because of so many “ Tough guys “ the insurance starts around $400.00 a year .
@@danielthatcher5345 haha just kidding around. It is kind of an inside joke because I was on here claiming my husky 501 puts down 60 rwhp uncorked and sr called me out to put it on dyno. And I realized I have no idea how much power it makes and it was all speculation…
here in portugal we put them with +100cc, and because the bike is so light its insane, imposible to not whellie almost every gear and hit around 170kmh, amost 100 miles hour ua-cam.com/video/Fkmfqv3_AxI/v-deo.html
When I was a freshman in high school, before anyone in my circle of friends had a driver's license, one kid in our group had one of these. Needless to say, he was the coolest kid that ever existed on planet Earth at the time.
Wow, I had a nice little Rd50m did 50mph layed flat
Sounds like a childhood in Israel, at 16 you could've get a license for a 50cc motorcycle, a license for a car is at 17, so we had no other choice, and you also needed one of the parents to sign off the permit at the DMV.
So when I turned 16 I bought an aprilia RS50, my best friend bought a suzuki Wolf, I traded my aprilia for a yamaha DT, 97, with a front disc brake.
Now days i have over 4000cc in motorcycles at home and I miss that 50cc feel so much.
Here in the Netherlands is still a lot of these old mopeds alive!
Love to see such a little 50cc in the big USA.
I can't say I see them a lot in the Netherlands, especially this generation. Also the air cooled ones are starting to get rare in my opinion.
Do you know anyone would sale up to me ? I’m from Tahiti thank you
Stunning I had the air cooled version back in 86 loved it being 17 it could just about pull the skin off a rice pudding 😄. Great getting up in the morning living in England 🏴 and tuning into you guys 👍
Nice Bike. I've never seen one of these before. The bike that got me into dirtbikes, first I saw and first I rode....1978 Yamaha DT 125 2 stroke, when I was 5 years old. Dad's was a Spearmint Green Metal Tank! Gorgeous. My Uncle had the 78 DT 125 too. His was a Yellow Metal Tank, with white and black. Amazing childhood memories.
All the DT’s were fab all the way up !
here in the Netherlands during the 80's and 90's most 16yr olds were riding Honda MT50 MTX50 MB50 NSR50, Yamaha DT50 or or a Suzuki TS50. great times, i can still remember how it smelled working on them.
Boas a todos,aqui em portugal esta motorizada foi um grande sucesso de vendas e ainda temos muitas a circular eu na altura do lançamento deste modelo era mecânico de motas e arranjei e alterei centenas de motinhas destas e as minhas preparações ficavam sempre em 1 lugar nas corridas ilegais noturnas no distrito de setubal,grande nostalgia ver uma em tão bom estado fisico mas está com a cor do deposito de gasolina errada pois deveria ser azul com letras amarelas essa é a combinação certa para este modelo,eu proprio fui dono de pelo menos 3 iguais desta cor e por isso sei qual a cor certa do deposito e ao todo fui dono de pelo menos 130 unidades de todas as cores do catalgo possiveis,continuem o bom trabalho quem me dera ir trabalhar ai com esta equipe!!!!💪💪💪
Viva, esta unidade nao apresenta poisa-pés para passageiro. Com certeza era averbada nos EUA para uma so pessoa. De notar ainda as diferenças nos piscas e farol traseiro, para os regulamentos do pais em que seria comercializada.
Eles nos usa são mais flexíveis nesses pormenores
I wish Yamaha would go back and look at these cool small ideas they had, and do them again, esp 2 stroke with new tech! So many very cool bikes that so many would just love to have now!
Wow! my sister got a brandnew DT 50 in 1980 at age 16 from the local YAMAHA dealer here in Germany. Best wishes ! I was driving the DT 175
I remember those being very common in Honduras growing up
Had a black 80cc dtlc at age 17 in France.
Not fast but a real bike.
Then got a 60p xlrm.
Thanks for the inspiration and keep on trucking!
You mean a DT 80? Fucking love that thing!
I've never seen a DT50! I live in Australia and the smallest I have seen is a DT100.
Mostly DT175 and DT250's down here back in the day.
Never seen one either
We got a dt80 too (UK/Ireland)in this market, I remember because a friend and me went thru a hedge on one on a costal path 💯😂
Didn't know that they made a 50
@@techs1smh13 first thing the lads did to the 50 was order a big bore kit & a Micron exhaust because they were really slow. In mid / late 80s all the lads old enough to get a provisional bike licence (16) had either a DT 50, an mtx 50 or an AR50. My next door neighbour had a lovely white AR80 with lovely decals, his bro had a Pepsi rgv250 , I can near smell the street as I remember,. Gotta love two stroke aromas😎👌🤣
We used to have and still have a LOT of these dt50`s here in Finland. Cheers. :)
dt50's are all around in norway too, but mostly the newer, more boring ones.
Brings back memories. I bought one brand new when I was 12 gave it hell
That takes me back. My first road bike was a brand spanking new 82 black DT air cooled 50. Put full fresco and 60cc kit on it. Wish I still had it😍😍😍
My cousin had one these when we we're kids and I loved it! I was taller and had a Suzuki DS80, he rode mine and I rode this when we rode together.. Good ol' days for sure
I have a dt 50 with 1600 miles on it and it is just as mint as this one. Great little bike.
Can't be many of these still around, I think your right about it being a museum piece.
@@damien5748 no kidding?
condition is amazing that is unreal pristine like magic
Had my first DT50LC YPVS in 1982 in South Africa - produced 7.2kw (I stand corrected) and we removed the baffler to give e a different tone and sprocketed it using a YB100 front sprocket and two teeth less on the rear which would give us 50mph... caveat...I only weighed 65kg then. My best friend and I would go everywhere on them and I did 30 000 km with only I rebore. In July 1983 we left Durban for the Drakensenburg range of mountains - a 320km trip. We left a three in the morning and by the time we got to escort the temperature gauge wasn't recording anything....it just lay all the way to the left. Used to do a lot of trials riding on it to and was nippy and ultra reliable. Possibly the best bike I've had...other my Super Tenere 1200 Worldcrosser 😂
my bro had the red/white DT80 aircooled , same as that really, it was so comfy having a nice low seat height. that bike is phenomenal. better than all the rest imo
In portugal this model is one of the most popular bikes we have and mechanics here explore th big bore kits to the extent of making 30 plus hp and going 99mph
Nice! I have a blue one also. My tank is blue same as fenders. Runs well for a 50.
This video is a time machine! That sound! That look. Those clocks
I had one when I was 16. I did 12,000 miles in 1 year on it. That's a lot of hours on something that would max out at 45-50 mph.
Cost £1,000 or £1,200 in England back in 1989.
Every 2 months or so it would lose about 5-10mph top speed. I learned it was some 2-stroke oil coke clogging the exhaust header the engine. 3 bolts to undo to remove the exhaust. I would use elastic bands to tie a rubber glove around the engine end of the exhaust to seal it. Then I would get some caustic soda crystals from the chemist and a bucket in cold water and mix them together carefully - water in the bucket first, followed by slowly adding a few crystals and stiring then a few more and stiring then a few more and staring. Then pour this mix into the end of the exhaust with it standing up against the wall corner. Leave it for 30 minutes. Then pour the dirty mixture away, which was the gunk slowing the bike down.
Rinse out the inside of the exhaust with clean water. Refit and ride faster! :-)
A quite famous pop star in London had one back then. That's what the bike shop owner told me. And I did see famous people on his wall. He would import exotic bikes we well as "better foreign market" versions. The UK was getting the air cooled - low rev, 30mph, 4 gears only version. But in this video was see the American 6 gears, 50mph version, with 10,000 rpm redline.
Great bike back then!
I had a couple of yamy mr50 s here in nz back in the 80s road legal topped out about 80kms hr great little bikes🇳🇿
I once had a iT 125 back in the day
Mines was air cooled 1978
Great little machine!
Here in Sri Lanka we had lot of these bikes on an early years.but now its very rare to see due to difficultis in finding spareparts and emmission tests.
For anyone who thinks this bike doesn't have zip or is capable of doing at least 55 mph think again.
When I was 14 in 1972, and this is my only comparison experience I had a Chibi mini bike with a two stroke 58cc Briggs and Stratton engine, 3 speed. That bike had zip and it could get up to speed no problem.
Great piece Kaplan America 🇺🇸 and thanks for the memories.
Grandfather John
Pennsylvania
I have one i just fully restored i absolutely love it 1988
What a beauty!
Yamaha always put out these street legal limited production 50cc 2-stroke specials. Even the Rz50 was street legal.
Each dealership would only get a few and that would be it.
@@damien5748 were they unlimited?
That bike looks amazing !!! thanks to the internet i keep seeing models that i never knew existed . Seen a MK1 80cc and 125cc but never a 50 . early 80.s In the UK when i was 16 my restricted DT50MX was nothing like this .....although in my mind it was 🤣at the time i would have done anything to own this though.
@@damien5748 and every thing else , stlll loved mine though . should have kept it , they cost a fortune now :/
Lovely wee bike. I take it the front brake lever is on back order..
Phenomenal bikes on this channel constantly, but this is RAD 💥 . Had a Honda ZB 50 but the little wheels were the downer for me cool as it was at the time 🙂💫✨⚡️
i just bought mine last November and its been a little kick ass bike. it had 8000km and was sitting for 5 years not running i had to replace the carb,cables, forks and clean the gas tank but she is a little weapon now just took her on her first enduro ride about a week ago and she almost kept up with the big bikes🙂
I do ride my 50cc from time to time. I remember it felt so fast when i first got it. With a 65cc big bore kit I felt like I was the fastest, zipping around local trails at 40mph.
These things can really haul with some mods, but they are too rare to mess with if clean! These are great as an RV bike to go to the store etc.
In a way this reminds me of the Honda MB5 which was also way ahead of its time.
That lite skimmer is super flyyy..
Rarer than rocking horse shit here in Australia.. I'd love to have one as a fun bike ! Very cool !!!
I like "rarer than rocking horse shit" never heard that in the 🇺🇸
@@liamneal5325 I thought that it was a common phrase in the States as well ? 🤔
Do you still have this bike for sale I'm looking for one for a long time, I grow up having one and I really want to find one
I had that bike it was alot of fun.
aquí son ciclomotores y no pueden pasar de 45 kph unas 27 mph pero con unos ajuste básicos se des limitan y corren 70-90 kph ( escape y carburador) así es España :( un abrazo equipo 😀
Good looking 👌
The 125cc 16.9kw Dtr in Europe was something special
That is very rare. I think one kid in our whole town had one
Oh boy those were the bikes to have in the 80's and you just turned 16. The Honda MB50 and Mbr weren't far behind either.
Now _that_ is a muscle bike
A friend of mine has that's motorcycle in 75 CC Air cooled, the engine is the old one, diferent.
That's engine is 72cc in Spain, it's used in the latter model DT water cooled and the Tzr 80 Deltabox (i own one Marlboro réplica Rainey full fairing1991), just change the pipe and run about 140kph, love It screaming at 13.000rpm...
I used to sell these , and loved to ride it to lunch!
Exactly what I need for exploring the foot hills of Post Oregon. eBay?
Yes next week
@@KaplanCyclescracking little bike.. while i never had one i did ride one a few times and i can confirm that for a luttle 50 these things are rocket ships.... and still big enough for a full sized adult
That's 2 cool.
Sweet bike 🏍
these are very common in sweden but only the aircooled ones. ive never seen a liquid cooled dt50 of that year
Nice! Looks brand new a time capsule fosure
I had one of those at the cabin in Michigan when I was a kid
I had 4 Yamaha DT125R s in 90s
Best 50cc ever created
Kap can even make a 50cc look badass
I love the sound of a 2 stroke.
That's so cool.
Tank isn’t original but it’s still a very nice example of a rare little zinger.
I have an dt 80lc2 this thing is sweet!
I have just rebuild this thing, 96' 20k kms, rather mint condition, nice bike,)
its a shame you guys in the US don't have dt125r's, theyre great
Muy linda la dt 50 cc Aca en ARGENTINA NUNCA LLEGO
They used to get used and abused here in the uk,you could pick them up for £100 when i was a teenager they was everywhere,not so now.
Did they not make the 125 lc in the states or the dtr
The motor is still alive in Europe, Derby Sender, Aprilia, etc are. Using this motor and some others.
Nice I have a dtr125r with a dtr 200 engine in it amazing bike s
Dt-50 has alot of potential. Mine, bored now to around 56 cc (max is 60cc with stock cylinder) do 56 mp/h all day with a tooth more in front sprocket, i am 6 feet, 200 pounds.
How much
Even as an adult i would buy 1 of these for every day use.....i find the fact it is only 50cc quite endering
That's the biggest 50cc I've ever seen!!
I think those had boots on the forks nice bike
We only got white and black my best mate had one he got knocked off by a car
Throttle side bar weight missing?
Kids still ride one on the streets with a Moped license at 14
My frst ever bike .I had black
sweet bike 😍
Great video!🔥
Thumbs up and much support from my side :)
The dt50 whas very popular here in Portugal on the 90
Nice bike, i want.
A bit less torque than the XR650! 😅
How much cost
Try 81 yalaha XT 500 you can wheelie with One hand everywhere staying on One wheel all day long.you can Cook with the other hand
If you have one let me know , I will buy it, I'm located on Worcester ma, I'm looking for a decent dt lc 50 for years ,
Hell yeah in Finland we have a hole underground culture around tuning and making "50cc" mopeds faster check it out
The reason I ride a 50cc is because of the Sons of Anarchy wannabes who pushed through a no helmet law ! Now the insurance in Michigan is so outrageous it’s counterproductive to ride a bike !
I remember $35.00 a year insurance for almost any bike. Now because of so many “ Tough guys “ the insurance starts around $400.00 a year .
60 rwhp all day
It's a 50cc not a 500cc
@@danielthatcher5345 lmao...
@@danielthatcher5345 more like 6 horsepower lmao
@@danielthatcher5345 haha just kidding around. It is kind of an inside joke because I was on here claiming my husky 501 puts down 60 rwhp uncorked and sr called me out to put it on dyno. And I realized I have no idea how much power it makes and it was all speculation…
Little mosquito but it actually sounds quite unique
Nice
here in portugal we put them with +100cc, and because the bike is so light its insane, imposible to not whellie almost every gear and hit around 170kmh, amost 100 miles hour
ua-cam.com/video/Fkmfqv3_AxI/v-deo.html
I've never seen a DT50.
There is another variant of the DT 50 almost identical to this but it has a didc brake (front) and pillion foot rests
Thanks for 3 seconds of riding 🙄