MINESWEEPER YAMAHA YZ250 PROJECT: TWO-STROKE TUESDAY

On this week’s Two-Stroke Tuesday we take a look behind the scenes of our video editor Travis “Raw Dog” Fant’s Yamaha YZ250 rebuild. Travis is paying respect to his dad by honoring his service to our great country as a Naval Minesweeper. The “Minesweeper” YZ250 project has been two years in the making but is almost complete, enjoy some images from the build process below.

2-STROKE BEHIND THE BUILD

If you are a fan of Supercross and motocross and over the age of 25, you might remember watching Jeremy McGrath in the late ’90s and 2000 aboard his Chaparral Motorsports-supported Yamaha YZ250 dominating SX main events across the country. This team made history as the first non-factory team in the sport to win a premier-class Supercross championship. We just assumed that McGrath had at least one of these championship-winning Yamahas in his collection. After all, he has memorabilia from just about every era of his career. However, we were shocked to find out this was not the case.