Yamaha
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Get your hands on a piece of racing history: 1992 Yamaha Harris YZR500 OWC1 Screamer on eBay
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Oh boy! Look what we just spotted on eBay: a pukka 1992 Yamaha Harris YZR500 OWC1 Screamer. This is a proper Grand Prix factory bike, built for the teams that raced at the top level back in the day. Tipping the scales at 130kg and pumping out around 155bhp, the Harris-framed two-stroke YZR500 is a…
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine!
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine! Here’s a story from our friends in Japan that’s going to get the motorcycle world hopping around in New Year excitement – a return of the RD350! Kind of! What this story surrounds is news from our friends at Japanese…
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live. Umm… we’ve shown you previous episodes of this series before, it’s a Japanese animation from Yamaha that’s you’re usual Japanese motorcycle cartoon fare – but this stuff is centered around riding bikes from the MT series of…
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant.
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant. Check out this super sweet MT-03 special dirt-tracker. Built by German custom house Kingston Customs the bike is essentially the same MT-03 in terms of engine and major components but what KC has done has really made a difference. The special gets semi-knobbly tyres, a…
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Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-09
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Revamped for 2017, the new MT-09 remains true to its values… WORDS: John Milbank, Editor, Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine PHOTOGRAPHY: Yamaha What each of us can afford to pay for a bike is invariably subjective. What some might consider a bargain price, others might well struggle with. But there can be no argument, surely,…
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Video: AWESOME YZ125-powered go kart onboard footage (trust us)
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Video: AWESOME YZ125-powered go kart onboard footage (trust us). https://youtu.be/F5qXy91OIgc Check this out – it’s pretty awesome. This is a minute and a half of madness onboard footage from a Yamaha YZ125 powered kart. It’s frickin’ great and we’ve wasted an hour today watching this over and over before seeing how cheap we can get…
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Revealed: Yamaha’s first full patent drawings for its production all-electric off-roader (just appeared)
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Revealed: Yamaha’s first full patent drawings for its production all-electric off-roader (just appeared). These designs for a fully electric motocross-styled bike have just appeared at various registry offices around the world and they show that Yamaha has worked out exactly how its long-standing off-road electric ambition is to be realised. There’s not much detail…
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Motorcycle Live! Loads of Milan show motorcycles are heading for the NEC next week!
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Motorcycle Live! Loads of Milan show motorcycles are heading for the NEC next week! The EICMA motorcycle show opened its doors in Milan, Italy yesterday with the world’s leading motorcycle manufacturers unveiling even more brand new models for 2017 – many of which will be heading to Motorcycle Live at The NEC, Birmingham next week.…
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Milan show: Get a glimpse of Yamaha T7 concept adventurer in this VIDEO
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Yamaha has revealed its vision for the future of adventure bikes in Milan with the unveiling of the new T7 concept bike. The T7 is inspired by the legendary XT600Z Ténéré, but since this is a concept bike, there’s very little information available at the moment. What we know at this stage is that the T7…
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Honda and Yamaha in talks to work together on range of bikes – yeah, really.
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Honda and Yamaha in talks to work together on range of bikes – yeah, really. An announcement has found its way to us from Japan which says that the two companies have started discussions toward an ‘alliance’ that will see Honda providing engines for certain Yamahas. So far, the only bikes that have been included…
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