1992 Yamaha TDM850

"Park Yamaha's TDM850 at the local sunday-morning motorhead hangout and just listen. Somewhere between the caffein and the lies you'll hear sport-bike guys call it some Paris-Dakar refugee. The Harley boys roll their eyes and enlist it as unimpeachable evidence that somebody at Yamaha is more than a few sandwiches shy of a picnic. And while the dual-sport guys are wishing for knobbies, the surfers stopping in on their way to the waves haven't a clue what to call it. But they like it.

The TDM is like that, it bends the rules, refusing to fit into any prescribed category. You can't call it a sport-bike. It isn't a dual-sport in the traditional sense. It's cool enough to cruise but it sure isn't a cruiser. Add some soft luggage and you could pull off a tour, but it isn't a touring bike either. What it is, in Yamaha parlance at least, is a 'new sports' motorcycle: something that does just about anything you'd ask a motorcycle to do while smashing the status quo into a billion pieces."

                                                                   Motorcyclist Magazine (August 1992)

The link below will take you to another page of mine
with a laboriously re-copied review of the TDM.

The 1992 Yamaha TDM850
(Factory stock configuration)

Above is what the TDM looked like just out of the box,
below would show my first 'change', a Corbin seat.

 A very comfy seat it is too.

Most recent shot of my TDM

Single-side Delkevic silencer, Corbin seat,
Stebel air horn, MRA touring windscreen.
 

Yes, I intend to take a better shot...

(Someday...)

Test video...
(This needs re-shot, way too much traffic on the road.)

Evolution of the TDM...

The TDM was imported into the United States in 1992 and 1993,
This was the Mk1 which was built from 1991 to 1995.

In 1996 the TDM received a make-over with redesigned bodywork
the main change was in the engine. The 360 degree crank of the Mk1
became a 270 degree crank in the Mk2/2a. The engine remained at 850cc's
and the TDM850 continued in this garb until 2001.

In 2002 the TDM900 made it's debut ('The 9er'),
With a boost to 900cc's, the addition of fuel injection,
catalytic converter and the option of an anti-lock braking system.

Still not imported into the US by Yamaha..... go figure.

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