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  • Lorenzo launches attack on Rossi and Yamaha

    Lorenzo launches attack on Rossi and Yamaha

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    Jorge Lorenzo has opened up about his time at Yamaha in a wide-swinging interview where the Majorcan claims that he wasn’t treated as well as teammate Valentino Rossi. In the quite astonishing interview for the website Marca  the Ducati rider spoke about his former relationship with Rossi when the pair were racing for the Japanese factory: “Yamaha…

  • Here’s Yamaha’s production plans for its mass-production TWO WHEEL drive bike. Conventional motor at the back, electric motor at the front.

    Here’s Yamaha’s production plans for its mass-production TWO WHEEL drive bike. Conventional motor at the back, electric motor at the front.

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      The patents on the designs have just been granted and by registering them Yamaha has given away one of the bikes that is likely to make up part of a future range. There’s no indication of when this motorcycle will see the light of day (to be fair, the designs themselves have been registered…

  • Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-10 SP & Tourer Edition

    Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-10 SP & Tourer Edition

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    Yamaha’s MT-10 is a stunning machine. Launched last year, the company was keen to stress that it wasn’t ‘just’ an R1 with wide bars, though given the fact that it uses the hyper-sports bike’s frame, swingarm, suspension and headlights, not to mention many of the crossplane crank motor’s main parts, you’d be forgiven for thinking…

  • MotoGP: Vinales ends Sepang test on top

    MotoGP: Vinales ends Sepang test on top

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    MotoGP: Vinales ends Sepang test on top. First it was Ducati test rider Casey Stoner, then Team Suzuki Ecstar’s Andrea Iannone – but it was the fastest man from the Valencia test, Maverick Viñales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), who hit back on Day 3 to head the timesheets. Fastest in the session and setting the quickest…

  • SPOTTED! Yamaha’s undercover MotoGP wings caught on camera.

    SPOTTED! Yamaha’s undercover MotoGP wings caught on camera.

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    SPOTTED! Yamaha’s undercover MotoGP wings caught on camera. Here’s the best picture yet of the ‘hidden wing’ fairing that Yamaha used on its M1 at the Sepang tests, the lads at motorsport.com have caught the front view of the bike and – as you can clearly see – there are wings still on the bike.…

  • Video: Maverick Vinales rides the Yamaha R15 at Indonesian launch

    Video: Maverick Vinales rides the Yamaha R15 at Indonesian launch

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    Yamaha new-boy Maverick Vinales has been out in action on the new Yamaha R15 for a launch of the mini-superbike at Sentul, Indonesia. Here’s the footage that Yamaha has put up from the four laps that the MotoGP chap put in on the new bike. https://www.facebook.com/yamaholigan/videos/10154323472452643/ And here’s the pics. Nice touch to get Vinales…

  • First look: Rossi and Vinales’ 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike unveiled

    First look: Rossi and Vinales’ 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike unveiled

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    First look: Rossi and Vinales’ 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike unveiled. Here’s the 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike which has just been unveiled by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales at the Movistar Yamaha’s 2017 launch. The bike looks pretty different to last year’s bike – in colourscheme at least. Here’s the 2016 bike so that you can…

  • Watch Rossi and Vinales at Yamaha’s MotoGP launch here LIVE at 10.30am UK

    Watch Rossi and Vinales at Yamaha’s MotoGP launch here LIVE at 10.30am UK

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    Watch Rossi and Vinales at Yamaha’s MotoGP launch here LIVE at 10.30am UK. Hit the button on the screen above and you’ll get to watch Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales uncrate their 2017 MotoGP Yamahas. It’ll be a bit of a show and then everyone saying how excited they are and how amazed they are…

  • Yamaha putting XSR900 Abarth special on sale tomorrow (only 95 bikes up for grabs – so be quick)

    Yamaha putting XSR900 Abarth special on sale tomorrow (only 95 bikes up for grabs – so be quick)

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    Yamaha putting XSR900 Abarth special on sale tomorrow (only 95 bikes up for grabs – so be quick). Yamaha is turning on the online registration for those wanting to buy its XSR900 Abarth. Only the first 95 customers will be able to register their online order for the limited edition with the process going live…

  • Here’s how to get your hands on Paper Craft’s 2017 Yamaha MT-10 plans for FREE. Download, get printing and enter the big-bike fold… (sorry)

    Here’s how to get your hands on Paper Craft’s 2017 Yamaha MT-10 plans for FREE. Download, get printing and enter the big-bike fold… (sorry)

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    Here’s how to get your hands on Paper Craft’s 2017 Yamaha MT-10 plans for FREE. Download, get printing and enter the big-bike fold… (sorry). We’ve seen plenty of great paper models of modern superbikes that you can download, print out and make – but this is probably our most favourite so far. It’s the new…


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