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Yamaha Motor Company has been making motorcycles since 1955 and today hols many world racing titles in road and off-road racing. Legendary Yamaha riders include nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi. The company produces a wide range of motorcycles from dirt bikes to road bikes, cruisers, sportsbikes, ATVs, scooters and electric motorcycles. We preview coming models, attend product launches and road test Yamaha motorcycles for performance, handling, styling, economy and more.
Yamaha has given the popular YZF-R3 learner motorcycle a MotoGP-inspired styling makeover plus LED headlights and hi-spec upside-down forks. We expect the R3 to arrive in the first quarter of 2019. It will be interesting to see if Yamaha Motor Australia can keep the price at a keen $A6299 (plus on-road costs). It’s in a …
Yamaha has issued this teaser video which could be the production version of the long-awaited Ténéré 700 adventure bike. It features British cyclist, motorcyclist and author Nick Sanders who is the fastest man to ride around the world. He completed the 32,070km (19,930 mile) trip on June 9, 1997, in 31 days, 20 hours. In 2005, he did …
Yamaha Motor Australia has slashed $2000 from the price of its learner-approved V-Star 650 cruiser to compete with other learner cruisers in the market. The XVS650A Classic was $11,299 and is now $9299 while the XVS650 Custom was $10,799 and is now $8799. (All prices in this article are retail and do not include on-road …
Imagine a Yamaha VMax with 147.2kW of power and 166.8Nm of torque packed into a leaning three-wheeler motorcycle with two front wheels. That’s Yamaha’s vision of the future as they have applied for a patent for the design. The filing comes as Yamaha is launching its Niken leaning three-wheeler based on the MT-09 but costing …
Yamaha is developing hybrid engines for cars with the technology helping the Japanese company produce electric motorcycles. Company boss Yoshihiro Hidaka (pictured above) says Yamaha has been supplying engines for Toyota since 1967, but now must develop hybrid engines to keep pace with Toyota’s hybrid powertrain development. “I have a sense of crisis that if …
Yamaha’s latest side-by-side X4 Wolverine is a four-seater mountain goat, slush puppy and go-anywhere off-road taxi, says ATV correspondent Bruce McMahon: The Wolverine X4 – the first of this model with room for four Australian-sized adults – scores a race-bred motor, self-levelling rear suspension, fly-by-wire throttle plus a tonne of ability for tackling tough tracks. …
Yamaha has released a video explaining a little more of the Niken three-wheeler it will release in 2019. We’re not sure whether to call it a “trike”, although it does have three wheels. Yamaha refers to it as a leaning multi-wheeler (LMW) and promises there are more to come. We’ve ridden the Yamaha Tricity scooter …
Big-bore trackers could be the next big thing with Valentino Rossi receiving a Yamaha XJR1300 tracker from fans and Deus Ex Machina making a Kawasaki Z900RS tracker. Rossi’s VR|46 friends have just gifted the MotoGP legend with a custom-built flat tracker called “VR46 Mya”. Rossi is a big fan of flat track racing and has built …
Yamaha has unveiled updates for its popular Masters of Torque MT-07 and introduced an MT-09SP edition (pictured above). The bikes were unveiled ahead of today’s ECIMA motorcycle show in Milan, along with a Tenere prototype and Super Tenere Raid Edition. It also follows MT-09SP edition Launched in 2013, the MT-09 has been a huge success …
Yamaha has moved a step closer to introducing a midsize parallel-twin adventure bike with the Ténéré 700 World Raid prototype which will visit Australia in 2018. The bike was unveiled at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan today as a bit of a disappointment as many expected the final production model would be revealed. Last …