You might have seen the name of Dutch watchmakers TW Steel on the fairing of the Yamaha MotoGP team, various F1 cars and via ambassadors and partners including Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi. But for the Son of Time project, they turned to countrymen Numbnut Motorcycles. Working alongside each other, TW Steel Chief Designer Ton […]
2016 Yamaha Tracer 700 Announced
The new 2016 Yamaha Tracer 700 has been announced as a middleweight adventure sports tourer based on the already successful Yamaha MT07 platform. It follows the introduction of the MT09 based Yamaha Tracer 900 which was introduced in 2015. 2016 Yamaha Tracer 700 Engine & Chassis: The 2016 Yamaha Tracer 700 engine is the same […]
Yamaha XV950 Ultra Yard Built Special
The Yamaha XV950 ‘Ultra’ Yard Built Special is a definitely different take on the Yamaha XV950 by Swiss company GS Mashin. Builder Tom Mosimann has created this radical change without any cutting or welding to the frame, as required for a Yard Built special. Apparently Mosimann was inspired by Gothic architecture, but the Ultra looks […]
Yamaha Teases Faster Sons Chapter Two
If you look past the slightly pretentious language about heritage concepts and coffee-shop barista beards and tattoos, Yamaha and their ‘Faster Sons’ idea led to bikes which were easy to customise, some very cool specials and a project with builder Shinya Kimura which led to a mainstream model as well. It’s obviously doing well for […]
2016 Yamaha XVS1300 Custom Goes Grey
It’s not just my hair which is going grey for 2016. The 2016 Yamaha XVS1300 Custom isn’t getting much of an update, but the standard colour will change to Matt Grey. Previously it’s been available in Black. It looks like it might have been a bit dark in the studio for Yamaha press shots that […]
Yamaha Announce R1 Factory Team for 2016 WSB
Normally when we cover motorcycle racing it tends to be the experiences of a man with a van and shoestring budget. On some occasions, we find someone with a bigger, expensive van managing to race something slightly mad on a bigger budget. But we don’t spend too much time of MotoGP, WSB etc because we […]
2016 Yamaha YZF-R1 60th Anniversary Edition
Yamaha has unveiled a special edition 2016 Yamaha YZF-R1 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the company beginning motorcycle production. Originally founded in 1955, Yamaha Motor began by producing the 125cc single cylinder YA-1 which immediately took a class win in the Mt Fuji Ascent and took all three podium places in the All Japan […]