Yamaha
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WANT TO SEE some ICONIC 90s race machines at this weekend’s Silverstone BSB?
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Celebrating the launch of its classic motorcycle insurance policy, Bennetts is displaying a selection of iconic racing metal on its stand at this weekend’s British Superbike Championship at Silverstone. The display will include race and championship-winning bikes spanning from the early 1990s to the late 2000s. From James Whitham’s 1993 Fast Orange Yamaha YZF750 and John…
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MotoGP: Marquez WILL NEVER ride for Yamaha (or so he says).
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Four-time MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez has admitted he doesn’t have many friends within the Yamaha MotoGP team. While being interviewed on Italian television, the Repsol Honda rider suggested that it’s not just Valentino Rossi who’s not a fan – but also Yamaha’s Race Boss, Lin Jarvis. With his fifth MotoGP World Championship on the…
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VODKA-powered Yamaha XS850 sets new SPEED RECORD at Bonneville
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Montana-based Montgomery Distillery has set a new record average speed of 113mph at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials – on a custom 1980 Yamaha XS850 which has been converted to run on recycled-vodka. The XS850 custom was hand-built by the distillery’s owner Ryan Montgomery – who reportedly began planning for the event last winter after…
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VIDEO: President of Indonesia STUNT RIDING a Yamaha FZ1 (well, kind of…)
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo has helped to open the 2018 Asian Games in style, riding a Yamaha FZ1 into the opening ceremony. The Asian Games kicked off last weekend with a ceremony to rival the Olympics. The Games takes place every four years and gathers athletes from right across Asia – and this year it’s…
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SPOTTED: Yamaha’s new YZF-R3 caught testing. SPY SHOTS confirm it’s on the way.
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Yamaha’s new YZF-R3 has been caught on camera while out and about testing – and from what we can see in the snaps, the latest version of the potent A2-licence sportbike is well on its way to production. There’s been talk that Yamaha has been hard at work developing a new R3 for well over…
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Yamaha’s plan for airbags on scooters revealed
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We all know that you can’t fit airbags to sportbikes, largely because of the almost-prone riding position that the sporty motorcycles sit the rider in – an airbag can’t be sited under the chest of the rider for obvious reasons. So where can you fit an airbag in the modern motorcycling world? We’ve had one…
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Honda boss goes public on Hornet rumours: ‘We’ve got TWO new 650s coming! One will be funky, one will be mainstream.’
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How about this for all you Hornet fans out there? Great news coming to us in the shape of a top interview with Fabrice Recoque, director of the motorcycle division of Honda France (below). The interview was carried out at the recent Forza scooter launch by top French magazine Moto Revue and is a real…
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VIDEO: Minibike track training with Valentino Rossi. AND Franco Morbidelli.
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We’ve just been sent this brilliant video of Valentino Rossi and Franco Morbidelli pushing some little minibikes to their limit – while helping Rossi’s VR46 Academy riders hone their skills out on track. Looks like the lads had a lot of fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtroyKI5gss
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EWC: Yamaha Factory Racing Team claims fourth win at Suzuka – F.C.C. TSR Honda France, the first Japanese team World champion
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Yamaha Factory Racing Team has claimed its fourth consecutive Suzuka 8 Hours win despite stiff competition from Red Bull Honda with Japan Post and Kawasaki Team Green. Another Japanese squad also stepped into the limelight: F.C.C. TSR Honda France, the first Japanese team in the championship’s history to win the FIM EWC title. The 41st…
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Want to ride a Yamaha NIKEN? Then get to Matlock tomorrow and Sunday for a go on the three-wheeler
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We reckon you’ll have to move fast to book your place on this because the spaces available for a go on the MT-09-powered funkster aren’t going to hang around for long. The NIKEN Tour truck carries a large fleet of NIKEN bikes and customers will be taken for a test ride lasting almost one hour…
