Yamaha Motor Corp U.S. recently launched additional models of its 2013 motorcycle product. In the SuperSport category, the 2013 YZF-R1 ($14,290) and YZF-R6 ($10,999)...
Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., is pleased to announce its complete schedule of customer-focused activities for the July 27-29 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at...
(This article was published in the July 2012 issue of Rider magazine.)
Story by Greg Drevenstedt, Photos by Nelson and Riles
Starting in the late ’70s,...
After debuting its crossplane crankshaft in 2009, Yamaha's 2012 update of the YZF-R1 has focused on refinement, adding traction control, updating the look and...
photography by Kevin Wing
This 2011 BMW R1200GS Adventure vs. 2012 Yamaha Super Ténéré Motorcycle Comparison was originally published in the January 2012 issue of...
For 2012, Yamaha’s Star Motorcycles division is launching a factory-custom line, called SCL (Star Custom Line). The first model will be the Raider SCL,...
Consecutive AMA American Superbike Championships in 2010 and 2011, plus a World Superbike Championship in 2009, give the 998cc in-line four Yamaha YZF-R1 sportbike...
photography by Rich Cox
With chopper-mania fading farther and farther in the rearview mirror, the V-twin world has shifted its attention to baggers. As a...
photography by Rich Cox
A large chunk of American motorcyclists are beholden to the past. For years the highest percentage of motorcycle sales has been...
Like some recent sports and entertainment notables, motorcycles occasionally experience positive character changes as a result of forced intervention. This certainly was the case...
photography by Riles & Nelson
Ténéré (pronounced tey-ney-rey), which means “desert” in the language of nomadic Tuaregs, refers to a vast, dune-filled Saharan plain that...
photography by Riles & Nelson
Cruisers, baggers and cruiser tourers account for nearly 50 percent of the motorcycle market in the USA, and subsequently dominate...
Yamaha has been inundated with requests to bring the XTZ1200 Super Ténéré adventure-tourer to the U.S. Named after a challenging Sahara Desert stage of...
photography by Riles & Nelson
If you’re into cruisers and have kept your eyes open, you may have noticed that baggers—cruisers with saddlebags (and often...
Whizbang technology from Yamaha’s M1 MotoGP racebike trickled down to the masses in 2009 when the R1 sportbike became the first production motorcycle to...
photography by Scott Hirko
It all started in 1971, when Harley-Davidson introduced the Super Glide, a new model with a big 1,200cc V-twin shovelhead motor...
photography by the author, Rick Oxton and Paul Drevenstedt
FJR Tour, 4:40 a.m.—Blink, blink…up early, picking up Paul, coffee & doughnuts from Russell’s, driving...
When Yamaha introduced the boisterous new Vmax streetfighter last summer, another "Max" had already slipped into the market under the radar. Billed as a...
In my past life I was a scientist-specifically, a demographer who studied trends in human mortality (depressing, I know). Although my number-crunching days are...
Photography by Kevin Wing
Motorcycles included in this review (2008 model year): Honda Nighthawk, Kawasaki Ninja 250R, Star V Star 250, Suzuki GZ250, Honda 750...
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