Yamaha "WR Adventure" TV Ad

Love the vid. Wondering if that "WR advenure" is simply a street legal 450F? If that's going to be avail. here, too, my WR will be up for sale!!!

https://youtu.be/3w_Q0OZr2qQ

I believe that's an Australian WR-450F advertisement from a few years ago.

In the USA, a WR-450F is not sold as a street-legal bike as it comes off the dealer's showroom floor.
In Australia, the WR-450F enters their country and is then equipped with parts to make it street-legal, and then sold to the end user (customer).
The guys adding the street-legal parts are either the Yamaha importer, or somebody approved by the importer to do this.

Either way, the laws allowing this to happen are definitely more relaxed than the ones in the USA where Yamaha Motor Corp., USA (as well as Honda, Kawasaki, and Suzuki) would be worried of a lawsuit (and a lawyer getting involved) if someone were to get into a wreck or some other situation where somebody was injured, killed, or incurred damages from riding a dirt bike on the street.

I believe this is why you don't see street-legal dirt bikes like a WR-450F sold in this country, and after the lawsuits of the 3-wheeled ATVs and the resulting ATV consent decree from around 1988, I really doubt they feel like risking it.

If that was an ad they don't get much better than that!

Other big issue in the US is they have to be super quiet and fart out purified air to be legal. Also need mirrors, blinkers, running lights, etc... Hence all the crap our 250s come with.
Those bikes look like they just slapped plates on a 450 and called it legal.

Also been wondering about this one... anyone ever notice that if they can't get something to be legal in Cali, they just don't import it? whats up with that! Screw Cali.

The end of that video certainly hits home!

As for Cali, I suspect that if they go far enough to make a bike legal in the other states, that they may as well make the Cali model. The size of the Cali economy may have some influence... http://econpost.com/californiaeconomy/california-economy-ranking-among-world-economies Short version: If one looks at Cali GDP as a country and compares it to the countries in the world, it was the 8th largest economy in 2009. The bean counters probably find it vary hard to say screw Cali.

Bad ass!