Posts Tagged ‘yamahablog’
Upright, comfortable riding position with great weather protection. Light, effortless handling for urban use, comfortable long-distance cruising, and serious sport riding too.It was Thursday. I was hot in LA when the call came in from MO: “Agent Jason, Yamaha has a new bike available for a few hours and we want you to go ride [...]
Fighting for the Yamaha spotlight with the new Star Motorcycles Raider is a revised YZF-R6 sportbike. But the tuning-fork brand has also unveiled two small-bore streetbikes (a supermoto machine and a similar dual-purpose 250), plus a heavily tweaked XT225 that jumps to the status of XT250.
But the big news is the made-over R6. The [...]
David Philippaerts of the Yamaha Monster Motocross Team has won the 2008 FIM Motocross World Championships.The 24-year-old captured the premier class MX1 title with a fifth-overall finish in the final round of the series, Sept. 14 in front of a crowd 30,000 at the Faenza circuit in his native Italy. Philippaerts finished third in the [...]
“Well, well! Meet George Jetson!” That’s the first thing I heard when I pulled into The Rock Store on a Sunday afternoon. The Yamaha Morphous didn’t stand a chance at blending in with the arriving cascade of crotch rockets and cruisers.
I wasn’t sure what to expect. What would be everyone’s reaction to this perplexing machine? [...]