Ow-10

[charlyxty]

Have you double checked that ?

I inquired and in fact, the bike has gone with JCO (Jean-Claude OLIVIER, yamaha France manager) in his private collection when he retired from Yamaha France.

The problem is that he died in a car accident this year and the bike is not at his home...

It is still in France.

I hope it will still be possible to observe the cantilever TY one day.

[bestrcpilot]

Sorry for not keeping the thread updated sooner. Well the frame is out of the jig. Had to give up On the idea of using a DT frame. The DT head stock that I was going to use would not work, the bearing size was not right. So it took awhile to find a Donor TY 250 frame. The only thing that got used was the head stock and front down tubes the rest had to be cut away. Anyway the frame is done and work is now Continuing with the swing arm. I'm now looking for a shock/spring setup for it as the DT shock/spring setup is too stiff. Pictures of the build and a complete write up will have to wait untill the bike is up and running.

[feetupfun]

In the US where I ride the rules are the year of the bike for what class it can be riden in. So a OW10 would ride with the TS class, or 1970 to 1976 class. Well anyway the build is started, going to start with a 1978 dt175 frame and a 1975 ty250 motor and forks and wheels. Building a frame jig this weekend. All of the pictures are loaded into the computer and a set of blueprints are being printed. Got to love CAD input picture and out comes blueprints. If it was built before, we can build it again.

bestrcpilot, I'm interested in building a replica OW10. Are you willing/able to share the blueprints you generated?