Marcus Fistarol yes. Hydraulic clutch, disc brakes & water cooled engines. State of the art

@@TimGuitarcouk I bet a WORKS bike now is worth $250k one off factory exotica constructed from unobtainium

Yep, disc brakes on the factory bikes, watercooled already in the 500 class, many 125’s were already watercooled in ‘79, the works bikes anyway. Yamaha has a factory 125 watercooled works bike in 1976. There was even use of some limited carbon fiber as early as 1980 that I can confirm (Kent Howertons’ factory 1980 Suzuki 250 bike had a carbon fiber rear chain guide). I am sure it was already being used for small parts here and there. Kevlar also, I have seen a few Kevlar/Sglass air boxes on one off works bikes as far back as 1978. Before the AMA Started the production bike rule in 1986, the factory works machines were super exotic, especially the Honda’s from 1982-1985, they were phenomenal. Some of the Kawasaki, Yamaha and Suzuki’s were very special as well...the YZM500 works bike, only raced in Europe....while there is no rule against works bikes in Europe, the AMA took the exotic out of the sport in 1986, limiting everyone to production based machines....it was fateful and such a shame. Pro motocross in the 70s and 80’s had so much excitement surrounding the technology leaps you could glimpse in the works bikes....for me, it was almost the best part about it.

@@robertrishel3685 .. i have been in St. Anthonis in 1983 as a kid and saw Carla become World Champion on his Yamaha...but man, those Hondas were- bad ass....even vromans and everts had water-coold RM 500s....and later in 87 , i saw the YZM in Namur😊