I've been riding/racing for over 50 years , never gave the yz400 a try until 2014 , I own 3 of them now , along with 2 426's , best bikes I've ever owned !

I own a ktm 250 4t and it’s good but pretty expensive bike and i never really liked yamahas, until i met 2 yamaha guys, one with 04 or 05 yzf 250 and when he gave me a ride i was „yeah it’s cool but it’s not really my type of bike” but later i met 2nd guy with 01 yz426 and ngl this dude made me fell in love with old yamahas, just everything about that bike is amazing, performance wise it’s great, he’s not type of guy to ride slow trails, he does wheelies on 5th gear non stop and engine survived 250mth of that riding style with proper maintenace, looks wise it’s also best looking bike from that year range, and for me it’s best designed yamaha, and the sound… oh my god it sounds amazing when it goes from low rpm to high rpm when doing wheelie or giving it full throttle on a gravel roads. And after riding couple 450s i thought about buying 426 because in poland cheapest ones that are fully running are starting from 1400usd because i don’t want to sell my ktm and good old 450 that i can get really cheap is good deal i think

I have a 1998 yz400f 1st series white and red 5BE3 Japan, a gem!

I have more modern bikes but got a 400 a year ago just because they are so much fun. Its essentially a 4 stroke designed to handle like a 2 stroke, so it loves kicking that rear end out and lofting the front wheel anytime you throttle. Power is easier to manage than my 450, only downside for me is the brakes and suspension are years behind the motor.

This bike sweeped the start line of Mx worldwide by 1999 ..I purchased one straight after a test ride and loved it and all the other four strokes I purchased after this one

My buddy had a modern trike conversion of one of these, thing ripped. I started it once and felt it rev so high and quick with the high redline you mentioned that I looked into the history of the engine that night, and I borrowed his truck to go buy one less than 24 hours later. I’m now building my own 426 conversion, killer video about a killer bike, cheers Man.

I love my 1999 wr400f, it smokes modern 450s up the hill i do have a nasty hillclimb gear ratio set up but the look on theyre faces is priceless

Husaberg won the FIM 500 cc Motocross World Championship with Belgian rider Joël Smets in 1995, 1997 and 1998. They also won 6 Enduro World Championships in 1990, 1991 (2), 1995, 1996 and 1998. Three more Junior Enduro World Championships followed in 2005/2006 by Joakim Ljunggren and in 2009 by Oriol Mena

Awesome. I have a road legal 2001 yz426f currently. Full big gun race series pipe. It screams and oh does it rip!!! I had a 2000 back when I was 15, it was my 2nd bike after having a 2003 xr100r. It was a big jump lol but I had to own another one here almost 15 years later

I have a 2000 yzf 400 balls to the wall love it it's based off the yz 250 I just hate kicking over lol great bike

I have one it’s 2000 Yamaha yz400f

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One problem with video. Its not really true. One word Husenburg. Yes they had qwerks, and were one of the big four Japanese Co's but they were very competitive, primarily in Europe. p.s. I and two of my buddies all bought and loved 1998 YZ400F's they were such an off awesome new bike + reliable, afforbable + dealer network, the last two were things Husenbergs were not.