Tt600: Only For Italians
TT600: ONLY FOR ITALIANS
EVERY COUNTRY HAS ITS own special brand of hardcore enthusiasm, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a harder-core, more enthusiastic bunch than the Italians.
The Yamaha TT600 is evidence of that. It is, strangely enough, a street-legal, dualpurpose Yamaha that has never seen the inside of a proper Yamaha factory. It was assembled entirely in Italy by Belgarda, the Italian firm that imports Yamahas to that country. It is based on the trusty XT600 engine, and uses plastic, frame and swingarm designs that all are very Yamaha-like. The fork is a 43mm inverted Kayaba with 12.2 inches of travel, and the shock is an Öhlins unit that allows the Deltabox swingarm 10.6 inches of travel.
The TT600 rolls on street knobbies and tips the scales at a claimed 298 pounds dry.
Don’t get your hopes up about being able to get one here in the U.S. This is a forItalians-only machine, with about as much chance of coming to the U.S. as an Italian hoops team has of beating Jordan and the Bulls. We can dream, though.
