Yamaha Road Tests Articles

2009 Yamaha T-Max - Short Shift

V-Max For The Step-Through Set more

The New 2009 Yamaha FZ6R - Starter Supersport

Who says your first streetbike can't be fun? more

2009 Yamaha YZF-R1 - The Game Changer

Yamaha's Crossplane Crankshaft Changes Everything more

Yamaha XT660Z Tenere

Another Adventurous Enduro You Can't Buy Here more

2008 Yamaha WR250X/R - Pocket Rockets

Will that be Supermoto Lite or Demi Dual-Sport? more

2008 Yamaha YZF-R6 - First Ride

Fly-By-Wire Throttle,Variable-Length Intake Tracts And Other Electronic Trickery Make The '08 R6 The Most Potent Yet. more

2004-2006 Yamaha YZF-R1 - Smart Money - MC Garage

Cranking out 158 horsepower at 12,500 rpm, the 2004-'06 model is still the strongest R1, and the last to breathe through 20 valves. OK, so the 16-valve '07 model pulls harder above 7000 rpm. The Genesis version that appeared in '04 is more amenable to travel below 12,000 rpm. The fourth generation o more

2007 Yamaha R1 - First Ride

Check out our first ride on the 2007 Yamaha R1! more

First Ride: 2006 Yamaha FZ1

Smaller, lighter and cooler than before. more

First Ride: 2006 Yamaha FJR 1300AE

New computer-controlled clutch for 2006 more

First Ride: 2006 Yamaha FJR 1300AE

New computer-controlled clutch for 2006 more

Star Power

Yamaha, long the most cruiser-conscious Asian motorcycle maker, has rebranded its cruiser line as Star Motorcycles. Yamaha was the first Japanese manufacturer with a real line of cruisers, rolling out its Special series in the late 1970s. It built the first mo more

2005 Yamaha YZF R6

Mount Palomar's 11-mile East Grade is the road less traveled. It's faster and more flowing than the technical, first- and second-gear South Grade. That flow lures you in, but the road's a trap--it's almost an encyclopedia of flawed pavement: Potholes (filled an more

2004 Yamaha FZ6

No doubt about it -- we were genuinely surprised when Yamaha told us its new FZ6 would be offered in America in 2004. After all, this motorcycle's European intentions couldn't be more obvious if its fairing were carved from brie. Everything about it, from the more

First Ride: 2002 Yamaha YZF-R1

When Yamaha's "new" YZF-R1 was unveiled at last year's Milan show, everyone wondered how Yoshikazu Koike and his design team-still under the watchful eye of original R1 Design Chief Kunihiko Miwa-would fare when reinventing what's arguably the world's favorite more

First Ride: 2002 Yamaha FZ1

Spaining the globe to ride Yamaha's zippy new naked bike more

First Ride: 2003 Yamaha YZF-R6

Yamaha has flown motorcycling's international press corps to Almeria, Spain, to take a crack at the 2003 R6. more

2002 Yamaha FJR1300 Sport-Touring Motorcycle Test

Uncle Jack would proclaim through a haze of cigar smoke, "There's nothing you get by pissin' and moanin'. Shut your trap about it, already." It didn't matter what "it" was, because the great man felt stoicism in all things traced the path to enlightenment or, more