Where Sport Quads Are Born

I'm beyond excited to share my Yamaha factory tour with everyone. In celebration of 20 years of YFZ450 production, Yamaha decided to invite myself along with other journalists and factory riders to see the YMMC production facility in Newnan Georgia. This whole experience was the opportunity of a lifetime. I think I can confidently say, on behalf of the entire sport quad community. THANK YOU Yamaha for continuing to keep sport quads alive!
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Chapters
0:00-0:37 Intro
0:38-1:27 Factory Arrival
1:28-6:10 Factory Overview
6:11-7:30 Tour Starts
7:31-8:56 Fiberglass Production
8:57-9:52 Plastics Prouction
9:53-10:17 Plant 1 Welding
10:18-11:00 Plant 1 Painting
11:01-12:09 Waverunner Assembly
12:10-16:47 Sport Quad Assembly
16:48-17:09 Plant 2 Arrival
17:10-17:39 Plant 2 Welding
17:40-18:09 Plant 2 Painting
18:10-19:23 SxS Assembly
19:24-19:43 Robot Pipe Bender
19:44-20:00 Plant 2 Welding
20:01-21:01 Tour Outro
21:02-22:15 Outro
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[@TerrellSpivey]

Ayyee!! Super cool indeed! Thanks To Yamaha for still making sports quads in which I just brought a 2024 Raptor 700R Today! And I shouted you in the video I just uploaded Pete! I hate imma miss ya at Carolina Adventure World! Thanks for bringing us this experience! Definitely interesting being I just converted to Yamaha! Lol I do hope such an informational video like this motivates other companies to start making sports quads again! Thanks for all you do!

[@PeteHager]

Congrats on getting your Raptor Terrell! I can’t wait to see clips of it in action! 😬🤘

[@TerrellSpivey]

​@PeteHager appreciate cha Pete! I got alooot of trail cleaning up to do having been out of action for almost 3 years! Lol aaand it rained 1 inch last night! I'm acting like a girl trying to keep it clean for a while! 😂😂😂

[@867diesel]

yamaha is the way to go 🤟🤟

[@PeteHager]

@@TerrellSpivey it’s only brand new one time. Keep it fresh for a minute 😅

[@TerrellSpivey]

​@PeteHager haha! You're so right! But I declare its hard to get it filthy right now! 😂😂 crazy thing is we just got another 3 inches of rain today! 😅

[@Eli-cr1qg]

Shout Yamaha never stop making em baby !!! Yfz450r for life

[@user-bh1ne9tv7s]

I am a truck, driver, and I have been all over this country. I haul anything and everything on a open flatbed, and I do have to say that I have been to that facility and deliver there before. It’s pretty cool, I had a load of steel tubing on. So while I was getting unloaded, I got a tour of the production line and how everything works and I do have to say it was quite an experience.

[@sethanderson9931]

Yamaha needs to bring back the banshee

[@reggiexp69]

facts bring back the 2 cylinder 350cc 2 stroke god dam, yamaha, i would say fuk regulation but they cant... atleast most thing now must have X things that they didnt have to have in 1987... but so sad to see yam only ones still making and suporting SPORT quads..

[@Shadow0fd3ath24]

its impossible...the emissions laws are wayyyyy too strict...Plus, the raptor 700 is MUCH faster with more usable and broad power and is SOOO much better handling, with much better steering, insanely good suspension, super reliable engine with EFI, and reverse.

[@sethanderson9931]

@@Shadow0fd3ath24 The raptor is very nice but the banshee motor platform has lots of potential with new technology

[@coleman_motorsports]

It wouldn’t be impossible for them to make one KTM still makes a two-stroke. It would just have to be like a banshee with fuel injection. And oil injection.

[@MistaPerry]

@@Shadow0fd3ath24 Is this guy on something 😂 the banshee is 30 years younger than the raptor ofc the raptor has better steering but imagine a new banshee that’s the fastest thing in glamis

[@GeauxFastRacing]

So cool to see where my 21 Raptor 700 came from. Yamaha deserves all the credit in the world for keeping new sport quads in production since 1987. Glad I bought one I love it.

[@PeteHager]

They’ve been committed since the very beginning and they’re not stopping anytime soon 🤘

[@mikegoff3130]

I was a Yamaha dealer for 27 years and I have been in that factory and the one in Japan. Yamaha is such a great company.

[@YetiRC]

Thank You Yamaha.

[@danwilliams3728]

Wow, this is a fantastic tour Thank you so much, yamaha, for keeping this sport alive.

[@timmeijerink9504]

Oh wow, what a factory. I am very grateful that yamaha still makes sportquads. Thank you people from yamaha.

[@snake10566]

Grateful to all those line workers. Thank you for keeping the sport alive!

[@Toyahsi2]

As a mechanic for 20 years at a dealer all major certs, I'm amazed at this process. Awesome video. Yea shout out to Yamaha!

[@gregorybrothers9650]

AMAZING! I wish every manufacturer bring back sport quads

[@Nomadic-Nerds]

Thanks so much for sharing this! Almost brings a tear to the eye seeing sport quads being born at the factory.

[@DealinDmg]

Excellent video. That was a badass factory. I appreciate your time spent filming this. Thank you.

[@timpence825]

Awesome video Pete!!! Fantastic job YAMAHA!!!

[@eblacksburg]

Awesome experience! Credit Yamaha for continuing to produce sport ATVs!

[@ruthlessjack7367]

Shout out to Yamaha!!

[@bryce_t_u]

And thank you Pete for posting the SXS part also! Even though it’s a sport quad channel I LOVED seeing everything!

[@eclipes00]

Cool for Yamaha for bringing us in great vid!

[@justincarlfilms]

It's so cool that Yamaha invited you. It makes me appreciate Yamaha even more. Now, someday, I will have ether yfz450r or a Raptor hard to choose cause never ridden either of them, lol. I can't wait to see more riding vids and can't wait to ride with all of yall

[@SmokeyFromThe715]

Awesome video Pete! You did a great job of documenting the whole process even with the high speed of the tour. I’m an engineer for John Deere with a Raptor addiction so seeing the manufacturing side of different companies is pretty awesome. 10/10! Thanks for taking us along!

[@floridatrailrider305]

Awesome experience Pete, thanks for sharing 🤟

[@jtyler7857]

Super cool Pete thanks for sharing!

[@lifeatv]

Very cool video Pete! And like ya said S/O to Yamaha!

[@andrewengland971]

I absolutely love Yamaha. Had a yz125 still have a 2020 raptor 700r and a 2022 gp1800 svho. The paint quality on my ski really stinks but that is my only complaint at all. Amazing machines.

[@bryce_t_u]

This is absolutely amazing man!! 🔥 so cool

[@brokejokeratv5851]

This video is awesome! I'm so jelly not being able to see this😢 thabks for the tour

[@Raptor_Ruckus]

Wow, what a cool experience!!

[@leedimatteo5078]

super cool seeing the sport quad section man!!

[@Anthony_McDonough13]

That’s awesome. I bought a yfz 450R shirt. I’m rocking it right now. It’s so awesome 😁😁😁

[@jsvallee567]

super nice to see thanks for sharing man !!

[@connorwaits6575]

what a cool video! thanks for sharing.

[@edwardstroko4665]

It’s awesome to have all that in house work done because it’s a big part of quality control!!!😎💪🙏🇺🇸

[@stephencrisson3595]

Great video I love seeing this💯🤘

[@davidshock3541]

This was awesome!!! thanks for sharing

[@bradmcdaniel7258]

You Are Great 🎉 your video's and personality are awesome brother thanks for sharing.👍

[@keithmurray8249]

Great Video Pete👌 your the first I've seen do this😁

[@Leland387]

I worked at a Yamaha dealer from 04-13 and went to Orlando mmi to get certified with Yamaha. This is pretty cool. I know we had to put all the four wheelers together when they came in like wheels tires and bars.

[@maikhauser2298]

Thanks for this Video Pete, greetings from Germany

[@KadonRoss664]

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing

[@leonardodelcardo7819]

Excellent video!!!! I am from Argentina, here we have an assembly plant for Yamaha Raptor 700 , but its only assembly, the components are brought from Japan.I bought a 2024 recently, really beautiful machine, brutal torque!.Thanks for share the video!!, greetings from Argentina

[@atozcustompainting]

That was HUGE!

[@grantkopka9090]

God bless them!!

[@adrianbaker7627]

This was pretty awesome

[@cranedaddy678]

Super cool video man!

[@helonwhels1206]

Great video

[@alexmaclean1]

I'm happy to be proven wrong but I suspect a Polaris or Arctic Cat facility is no where near this impressive. This was amazing, but I get what you mean by it being overwhelming just seeing so much...everything. Amazing video man, thank you for putting it together for us.

[@Itsjake908]

Wow thanks a lot for this Pete. Hard to find such footage if any…I was always curious to see power-sports production and the whole backend of things…

[@ononewheel7]

So bad ass man i could spend a week in this place checking it all out.

[@honestjason7854]

Love Yamaha, Raptor was my first quad back in the day.

[@doobyboy21]

This was a good one Pete

[@williamrowe9481]

Cool video brother thanks for sharing

[@edwardstroko4665]

Thank u Yamaha for sport atv’s!!!! I love my Raptor 700R SE

[@compamigue4822]

This is the paradise ❤

[@cadman9615]

Great vid. Production is always cool to see. Now come on Honda & Suzuki, get back to producing Sport quads!

[@scott_newby]

Stoked you could come out! Now it's time to race one at a WORCS or GNCC round 🤘😎

[@208flatbedOO]

Way cool! Wish I could've seen the banshee line back in the day!

[@GaronOffroad]

Awesome 🤙🏼

[@Jasonracer]

Very cool.

[@Primerk5]

Great Video! Makes me want to go buy a new one that might have been built that day!

[@ericcontreras4030]

SO COOL

[@xclife211]

Yo that was awesome

[@dakotaknight676]

Man that’s awesome I love that dark blue with the light blue that’s sharp looking I like it more then the blue on my raptor

[@PeteHager]

I agree! I hadn’t seen any 24’s in person until we were there and they do look awesome 👌

[@patricklavictoire3235]

Thats was so cool,being a yamaha fanatic for the last 27 years ago,i truly appreciate this video,although im into utility atv's,the whole process is mind boggling,110 semi's a day in parts is bonkers,wow,,,

[@PeteHager]

That whole place is streamlined for efficiency. I loved learning some of those crazy facts 👌

[@Adam-cm6ym]

I use to work at a factory that made ford plastic parts and the molds were very similar to the ones u showed in the video. Me and another guy were mold changers and that’s all we did. It would take an average time of an hour to change the molds out from start to finish. Then when the mold is set we would actually lean in or actually get inside between the molds when they were split open which was sometime little sketchy but we would take like this small hammer pin and punch in the date in those small boxes. But ya hot a$$ job and don’t miss it one bit. Definitely a really cool place!

[@PeteHager]

Wow that’s awesome! I bet it gets hot. It would’ve been amazing to see the machine in production actually producing the parts. Pretty wild for sure 😬

[@Vazerin]

My first quad was a 2021 YFZ450R, started riding at 24, im 26 now and I got a TRX250X and Predator 500, love sport quads and sad that everyone dropped them but Yamaha

[@joeypooschke7914]

That must’ve been an awesome experience Pete. Thanks 🙏 for sharing. This is kinda what we do at Boeing just on a much much larger scale because airplanes lol #yamaha4life

[@mattijsleerink6740]

Sooo cool the only sport quad make those days

[@chadriddle3517]

Super cool Pete! I believe that fiberglass stand for the side-by-side molds is to check for imperfections and potential fitment issues.

[@PeteHager]

That makes more sense! Thank you for sharing 👌😊

[@andrewfriesen692]

I got my 2024 raptor 700r 1.5months ago now and I couldn’t be happier. I think why no one else makes sport quads is because everyone wants a SBS where they can sit down and let the machine do all the work. On a raptor or 450 you real got to work you can’t just sit back.

[@foxpuremage]

Customer: "Thanks for selling me this sports quad and motorcycle. I know this is super random but I'm looking for a piano, any idea where I could find one?" Yamaha: "lol you're not gonna believe this"

[@zeehawk6328]

vroom vroom!

[@fleece192]

Thank you so much. My 700 grizzly was born there. I think that would be a cool place to work. Especially with workers discount

[@____MC____]

I like the blue and dark blue plastics.

[@ericriley922]

Awesome to know where and how my 24 700 se was made

[@AllanSmith859]

When I think of the SE Raptor, I think it would be the hardest model to get, but in the past 2 years, that's the only model I have seen around me at multiple different dealers.

[@Green_stax]

This is like visiting the North Pole!! So awesome!

[@Kolleo5.3]

incredible to see where my 2020 raptor 700R SE came from. id love to do a tour through the yamaha factory myself

[@lengmoua16]

Peter they need to bring that color red 700r back

[@billhorrigan4388]

That fiberglass stand for the side by side front ends looked like it's there for some kind of quality inspections. I've worked for GM the last 25 years. That's what my manufacturing experience tells me it's for.

[@PeteHager]

Thanks for elaborating on that! I suppose the racks would be where they finish cooling down 👍

[@billhorrigan4388]

@PeteHager depends on the rack. Though the plastic must be cooled before you even handle it or you'd imprint on it. Some racks are for keeping the checked part for 24hrs. That way if a problem is found they can go back to checked parts and determine how long the problem had been occurring. My first job at GM was plastic mold injection. Though that was 23 years and 8 factories ago. Thanks for your content. This plus others encouraged me to get an old TRX 450r and restore it. I'm now 3 weeks and $3k into my restoration.

[@krowbar23]

Awesome Yamaha AMERICAN MADE IN USA. KEEP IT HERE MORE COMPANY'S NEED TO DO SAME. 😊😊

[@lengmoua16]

Pete tell them to bring the red color back plzz the 700r color u had I would buy one

[@edwardstroko4665]

350 forklifts!!! That’s crazy!!😎💪🙏🇺🇸

[@OdysseyOffroad]

Dude what an experience! That would be absolutely amazing to see. Seeing all those freshies coming off the line really makes a guy want a new one. 😬

[@PeteHager]

It’s been a few weeks since your last new purchase.. I’d say your overdue 😉😂

[@OdysseyOffroad]

@@PeteHager 😀 somebody's got to keep up with Chad 🤣🤣

[@CanadianArmwrestler]

I like when people say do a easy break in, in reality soon as these motors are built they hit the dyno and are pinned

[@PeteHager]

Couple 10 minute heat cycles at varied RPM and you’re ready to send it 😬🤘

[@leedimatteo5078]

loved the tour man, does it make you wanna buy a new quad?

[@PeteHager]

Lol it will be fun to know where they come from the next time I get another new one that’s for sure 😬

[@all_motor_sequence3793]

I would love to work here 😍

[@brandonherber3317]

Are you guys going to make it to Little Sahara Oklahoma snake hunt weekend April 5-7 ?

[@Josie238]

Saw you out rippin ditches today while I was on tge bike 🔥

[@PeteHager]

That may have been a buddy of mine who lives south of kato that also has a red raptor 700 lol. I’m editing currently 😅🤘

[@Josie238]

@@PeteHager yeah that’s probably who I saw haha! great day for it!

[@DUNEATV]

Really cool! Where were the Raptors built more than 12 years ago?

[@867diesel]

that was really cool to see . thank you yamaha for supporting atv racing and sport quads all together . heres to you honda 🖕. i was back of the pack on a honda 450 now im a champion on a yamaha 🤟🤟

[@mauricejones2076]

Need to bring the banshee back! It would sell out more all bikes together

[@Joepagrizz]

Ya save sport quads!!!!!!!!!

[@h2beezy2]

d'awwwwww look at all those baby raptors being born

[@nivbooskila]

wow, amazing Pete @PeteHager You have asked them about future of sport quads ?

[@PeteHager]

All the responses I’ve been told is that they’re committed to sport quads for the foreseeable future. They’re not going anywhere anytime soon! There was a few guys pushing the Yamaha Reps to bring back a midsize machine like the Raptor 250. Hopefully one of these years we’ll see an update to the model line 🤞🤞😊

[@nivbooskila]

@@PeteHager thats a very good answer from them

[@matthewhayes7765]

Question. Sorry in advance if you already mentioned this but I don't have time to watch all the video right now. Did Yamaha give any hits of stopping making their 450 or 700 sports quads? I just skipped to the part where you mentioned" Yamaha are the last ones left making them" and it hit hard. Like you're right, no KTM anymore, no Suzuki. Do you think the Yamaha will be here for a long time yet? Or not?

[@gavincardwell2223]

You should’ve asked them why did they quit making the banshee?

[@dom7713]

I’m sure you probably get this question quite a bit but which do you think feels closer to the 400ex the raptor or the YFZ

[@VermontLife]

Great content Pete. Original and quite interesting. Thanks for sharing. I wanted to reach out and ask about a collaboration but I don't see that you have an email address posted. Is there a way I can DM you?

[@PeteHager]

Hey man thanks for watching! My email is [e-mail] if you want to shoot me a message 👍

[@vintagetrikesandquads4012]

Can't you get the production numbers off the VIN? I thought the last 4 to 5 digits indicate the build number of each machine, so you need to find the highest and that will get you in the ballpark. I don't know if they start over every year. I'd like to know how many banshees they made over 19 years, it must be huge.