Yamaha
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Yamaha’s concept scooter revealed – and it’s ‘Glorious’
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Yamaha has shown this funky modern/retro scooter at the Ajang Vietnam Motor Show. The Yamaha Glorious 155 Concept – what a name! – might ‘just’ a concept at the moment but, to be honest, it’s a pretty standard chassis, engine etc under the swish bodywork so this scooter would be pretty straightforward to take from…
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Help four-year-old Izabella to get back on two wheels
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Izabella Tunnicliffe from Tetbury, Gloucestershire has offered to buy her stolen Yamaha PW50 back from thieves using money from her piggy bank – and to help her get back on two wheels we want the motorcycle community to come together and contribute to a recently launched GoFundMe campaign. Her beloved Yamaha PW50 was taken during…
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Valentino Rossi is the oldest rider to top the World Championship since 1949
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At the grand old age of 38 years old (and 66 days), Valentino Rossi is still breaking records. The 15 year veteran of the MotoGP grid has just achieved another huge milestone, by becoming the second oldest rider in history to lead the MotoGP World Championship, after his podium in Austin this weekend. Valentino is…
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Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha TMAX DX
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Out of maybe twenty motorcyclists coming the other way, only two returned my waves. Why should they? Yamaha’s TMAX DX isn’t a ‘proper’ bike – it’s an automatic… pah; what soft biker is going to want that? And it’s got enough space under the seat for up to one full-face and one open-face lid. Or…
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Launch report: Yamaha XSR900 Abarth
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“This’d be fantastic around Cadwell,” exclaimed one journo as he jumped off the XSR900 Abarth. He’s right, but it’s a shame I found it so uncomfortable on the tight twisting roads of Sardinia where we were riding it. To be fair, I was the only one who didn’t seem enamoured with the limited-edition…
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Ex-racer sells TT trophy to fund Ferrari-powered motorcycles!
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With a relatively successful racing career behind him, including a Canadian National Championship and an Isle of Man TT podium, former racer Andreas Georgeades decided to hang up his leathers and pursue his passion of squeezing powerful car engines into custom built motorcycles. Between 1978 and 1998, Andreas built three Ferrari powered custom motorcycles. Two…
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Launch report: Yamaha SCR950
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Yamaha’s SCR950 is hampered by its marketing. Described as being: “Inspired by the street scramblers of the 1960s,” many journalists’ default position will be to thrust it straight into a pigeon-hole already swollen with the likes of Ducati’s Scrambler, Triumph’s Street Scrambler and BMW’s R-nine-T Scrambler. I’d consider the XSR700 to have more potential to…
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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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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…
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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…
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