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I have no idea where to put this.
I found this bike on ebay tonight and thinking "damn this thing looks good"
Clean, replaced the stock tank with a YZ250. I totally forgot that Yammi brought the 490 out of retirement for a year (or two, cant remember)

Makes me want to rebuild my old 81 465 that I left back home at the parents house.
Brings back memories,
-went like hell
-brakes were shit
-cold siezed that prick 3-4 times trying to ice-race that thing
-I loved the big bore, air cooled, sound

I have a 92 wr500. Love it! I would love to do that tank swap! Think that it is a 90 YZ250 tank? And the pipe? I see that it has the wr inlet welded on to it. But what is the rest? Stock something. I see big seams on it. like the stock CR pipes.

that bike is CLEAN! holy crap!

those older bikes look way cooler left untouched in original form

100hp honda wrote:those older bikes look way cooler left untouched in original form

Yah, Here is mine unmolested. exept for the carb out for jetting

wr500 aint something you see everyday. cool piece of history for sure