the YZFs got aluminum frames now

thats right they got them for 2006 check out the pics...the pic is straight from japan yamaha

I heard the only YZF to get the aluminum frame will be the 250f and not the 450f. Don't know if there's any truth to it though.

someone else on here posted pics w/ both the 250f and the 450f...and both have the aluminum frames.

Yeah this was posted up a few weeks back, but it's obviously news to some people.

That's not a great picture either, it's impossible to tell what kind of frame is on the bike from that pic.

UrbanRacer wrote:

Yeah this was posted up a few weeks back, but it's obviously news to some people.

That's not a great picture either, it's impossible to tell what kind of frame is on the bike from that pic.

Well you can tell its sure not the old one.

its easy to tell that frame is aluminum. because that frame is powdercoated and you can only powder coat aluminum

plus ive noticed diffrent parts on that bike from the current 05 YZF bikes like the suspenstion on the engine looks diffrent
as well as the kickstarter is diffrent from the 05

How can you tell it's powdercoated though? I know it definitely is, but how can you tell by just looking at it?

There's a lot of changes on that bike, all the plastic's are different too incase you hadn't noticed.

mad trev wrote:

its easy to tell that frame is aluminum. because that frame is powdercoated and you can only powder coat aluminum

...since when? thats news to me.

Didn't even twig onto that one lol, you can powdercoat nearly anything Trev. you must be getting mixed up with anodising?

i was going to say

you can powdercoat pretty much any metal, anodize only aluminum

and see if you can fnd brian (grizzly) old topic on the alum framed yzf, its got even more better pictures

I think you can anodize Ti also.

And yeah look for my post, it has more pics...

mad trev wrote:

its easy to tell that frame is aluminum. because that frame is powdercoated and you can only powder coat aluminum
plus ive noticed diffrent parts on that bike from the current 05 YZF bikes like the suspenstion on the engine looks diffrent
as well as the kickstarter is diffrent from the 05

Your thinking about anodizing. You can only anodize aluminum, pretty much anything solid can be powdercoated (spare wood and a few other things).

yes i was thinking of anodizing my bad. but that frame looks anodized from my veiw...but it could be just the fresh yamaha blue paint making me think that....but we all no now its a aluminum frame

Your thinking about anodizing. You can only anodize aluminum, pretty much anything solid can be powdercoated (spare wood and a few other things).

lol,

you can powdercoat, or anodize alum

you can only powdercoat steel,