Yamaha R1
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Lewis Hamilton CRASHES Yamaha YZF-R1 at Jerez. Don’t worry though. He’s fine.
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Reigning-Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton took part in a World Superbike test at Jerez this weekend with Alex Lowes and Michael Van der Mark. During the test he had a small spill on the Yamaha R1 he was riding – but thankfully, the British multiple-time F1 champion escaped uninjured. Sick couple of days in Jerez…
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Video: PGM V8 – The world’s most powerful production motorcycle?
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Out of Australia comes the new PGM V8 motorcycle, powered by two Yamaha R1 engines. Pat Maloney is the man behind the new PGM V8. Maloney is an Australian engineer who previously worked with the F1 Sauber team, and helped develop the three-cylinder Petronas engine for MotoGP that ended up in WSBK. He now runs…
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FREE ringtone from us to you (it’s the PGM V8, the world’s most powerful production motorcycle being revved up). Sounds awesome.
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Fancy bagging yourself a FREE ringtone? How about a FREE message alert for your phone, too? Cool, so how about we give you them here and now for FREE. Yeah. FREE. OK, so you’ve got that this costs you nothing and here’s the rub, these audio delights are of the PGM V8, the world’s…
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Yamaha YZF-R1M online applications NOW open
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The Yamaha YZF-R1M online application system is now live – so, if you’ve got just shy of £20,000 sat in the bank, this is your chance to put your name down for a new YZF-R1M for 2018. Inspired by the MotoGP-winning YZR-M1 machinery made famous by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Viñales, the high specification…
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VIDEO: Yamaha’s MOTOBOT is back. And the damn thing is getting quicker and closer to Valentino Rossi…
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You ever see that film The Terminator? Where machines rise up against humanity? Check out this video from Yamaha of the latest step in the factory’s Motobot project. The any-bike riding bolt-on robot’s team has been tasked with using the latest tech and a combination of learning AI to make a bot that can be…
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Don’t doubt Vale: Rossi puts R1 through its paces at Misano
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Valentino Rossi is hard at work, after breaking his tibia and fibula in an Enduro accident at the start of September. The surgeon who operated on Rossi predicated a recovery time of well over a month, and expected him to be side-lined for around 40 days, which would have effectively put an end to his…
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2017 YZF-R6 coming in at just under £11k…
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Yamaha has just announced the UK price and vital statistics of its awesome new 2017 YZF-R6 – and with first shipments due on British shores in April, the eagerly anticipated production version of the three-time World Supersport Championship winning machine is nearly here… The suggested retail price for the UK is £10,999 – which although a…
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Video: MEGA footage of R1 chasing an R6 at full chat around the Nurburgring. It’s BRILLIANT! Turn it up loud, too.
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Video: MEGA footage of R1 chasing an R6 at full chat around the Nurburgring. It’s BRILLIANT! Turn it up loud, too. Check out this sweet video of an R1 belting around the Nurburgring chasing an R6 at warp factor nine. It’s mega – turn the sound up loud and sit back for an excellent 7…
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And here’s the 2017 R1 and R125 in their new colours for next year…
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And here’s the colour changes for the 2017 YZF-R1 and YZF-R125 – the bike’s are mainly staying the same aside from the colour switches, but we figured you’d want to see them here. Here’s the R1: And here’s the R125:
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Video: Porsche 918 Spyder VS Yamaha YZF-R1
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Video: Porsche 918 Spyder VS Yamaha YZF-R1 Here’s a cool little video for a bit of Friday fun: Porsche 918 Spyder racing Yamaha YZF-R1 on track. It’s a short film showing the superbike and supercar going head to head, complete with a bit of high-speed wheelie action (from the R1 that is, not the Porche).…
