The 2014 YZF-R1 price has been slashed $3000 to make way for the hi-tech 2015 R1 arriving in March at...
Yamaha has unveiled its 2015 models including the R1, limited-edition R1M, R3, T-Max, MT-09 Tracer, WR450 Rally and WR250F in...
TV presenter, race car driver and motorcycle fan Grant Denyer says he only got into TV to pursue a racing career. “Racing is very expensive and I worked out early on that if I got into TV I could get sponsorship to go racing,” he told MotorbikeWriter at the launch...
Yamaha will introduce the R3 to the Australian market next year to tackle the competitive LAMS sportsbike market. The Indonesian-made...
The Yamaha Tricity three-wheel leaning scooter costs just $4299 and comes with $60 capped-price servicing. Yamaha Motor Australia spokesman Sean...
Yamaha will reveal its new R1, R6, R3 and an adventure-style MT-09 at the EICA motorcycle show in Milan on November 3. The Japanese company has released a video that gives some hints that the new R1 will be a total revamp with the title “Nothing stays the same”. Even...
Yamaha has followed the lead of Kawasaki and Ducati with the launch of “Episode 1” of a series of teaser...
Before the curtain goes up at the Intermot show in Cologne, Yamaha has already revealed three new model variants. The...
Yamaha has developed a new Blue Core engine which is compact, powerful, but also more economical. The first bike to get the new line of Blue Core motorcycles will be the 149cc FZ-S. It has the same engine as in the Vietnamese-made Nozza Grande scooter. The 149cc engine has 9.7kW...
If you think the MT-09 – the flagship of the Yamaha “Masters of Torque” range – was aggressive, how about...
Novice riders have never had such a wide choice of motorcycles with Yamaha this week adding to the learner-approved motorcycles...
The hybrid-powered Tesseract was unveiled in 2007 at the Tokyo Motor Show, but it has taken until now for the company to announce production. It will begin local sales at one million Yen (about $10,500) soon, but there is no word about other markets. In geometry, a tesseract is a...
Sometimes maligned as a bit of a “softie”, Yamaha Motor Australia has “Australianised” the XTZ660 Tenere. What they mean is...
Yamaha Motor Australia is giving no hints of new models except to say it has “a couple of launches coming up”....
A UK Yamaha dealer has built a Street Tracker version of the naked motard MT-09 and it will be available throughout Europe from August. Yamaha Motor Australia is also considering the bike which is built from genuine factory parts, but they haven’t made a decision yet. The MT-09 Street Tracker...
The new Yamaha Stryker is the second in the comprehensive Star cruiser line-up to feature a modern, minimalist style, following...
Being a communist, Grant Roff (aka Spannerman and Groff) found the original 1978 Yamaha SR500 had great appeal. “They only...
Yamaha’s SR400 typifies Newton’s third law of motion: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As modern motorcycles become more and more technological and electronic, Yamaha is going retro with its SR400 which arrives in Australia at $8999 and has kickstart only. The SR400 is a reaction...
Yamaha Super Tenere now comes in two models, the XTZ1200E featuring extra trimmings such as electronic suspension adjustment, grip warmers,...
Yamaha has added electronic suspension adjustment to its sports tour-de-force FJR1300. It is now called the FJR1300E and costs $26,999,...
Yamaha has just made the TMax 530 scooter safer. Last year they made it lighter and more powerful. Now they have added ABS to make it brake better in all road conditions. It is also better on scooters with automatic transmissions as there is no engine braking to help slow...
The “Masters of Torque” range has increased with Yamaha unveiling the Street Rally version of the recently released MT-09 895cc...
The all-new Yamaha MT-09 naked bike has arrived at $10,999 (plus on-road costs). It promises to be a flexible weapon...
Yamaha XV1300: Most cruisers are air cooled and low revving, but the Yamaha XV1300A and T (touring model) are delightful exceptions. And now Yamaha Motors Australia has increased the appeal with a new industry leading five-year warranty with unlimited kilometres. It covers all nine Yammie cruisers from the entry level...
Yamaha Australia has just announced the pricing on their new bobber-style Bolt cruiser. The base model will cost $11,999 and...
The new Yamaha Bolt cruiser is expected to become the brand’s top-selling non-LAMS road bike with about 500 sales in...
Yamaha Bolt is the new star in its “Star” stable of cruisers. The youth-oriented, stripped-down Bolt hits Australia in September 2013 at a very reasonable $11,999. Looking alarmingly like Harley’s grungy Sportser 883 Iron, it is powered by a 942cc V-twin with similar mid-mount controls, clean and quiet belt drive, a low 69cm...
Yamaha YZF-R15: The quality of bikes coming from India will change the way riders think. The new KTM Duke 390...
Learners really are spoilt for choice with Yamaha now dropping the price and raising the power on the Yamaha FZ6R....
There is no replacement for displacement and you’ll buy the Yamaha Star Tourer (XV1900AT) just for its thumping engine. At 1854cc, or 113 cubic inches in the old vernacular, it’s the biggest V-twin in a production bike in the world. But rather than feeling like two rhinos bouncing on...
The new Yamaha FJR1300A is a big-torquing sports tourer with a healthy dose of modern technology. While keeping the...
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