Yamaha
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)
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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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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…
