Yamaha has given its flagship YZF-R1 superbike a significant update for 2020, with an ever so slightly new look, a new Euro V-compliant and more efficient engine, and some updates to the electronics and chassis. Naturally, there's also an extra-fancy R1M with all the carbon and Ohlins you can eat.
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Three years ago, Yamaha launched a new line of acoustic guitars sporting technology originally developed for its pianos. The TransAcoustic guitars could breathe concert hall warmth into the driest of rooms. A bunch of new models were released in January, and we snagged one of them to try out.
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Yamaha has announced the Wabash Adventure Gravel e-bike, which has the look of last year's Urban Rush e-bike, that we first clocked at Interbike in 2017, but with some important tweaks for tackling hard surfaces or loose dirt.
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The remarkable rise of "basketcase" prices continued at the British National Motorcycle Museum on Saturday March 2, when a new world auction record for a Brough Superior motorcycle was set at £425,500 ($561,556).
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The motorcycle marketplace is recalibrated each year with the January Las Vegas sales, and this year saw new records and the changing tastes of the buying public. While vintage bikes performed well, the real movers were two-strokes, seventies classics and Japanese motorcycles.
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Keyboard players rarely get to the front of the stage. If only they had an instrument they could strap on like a guitar... There is of course just such a keyboard, but the keytar hasn't really caught on. Yamaha is hoping that will change with the launch of the Sonogenic SHS-500.
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Decked out in full carbon, and with a list of upgrades a mile long, the 2019 Yamaha YZF-R1 GYTR "20th Anniversary" will be assembled by the Yamaha Racing Team crew for the 20 riders lucky enough to get their hands on one.
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Yamaha is finally giving seriously dirt-oriented adventure riders what they've been asking for: a road-legal, long range dirt squirtin' middleweight that looks a bit Dakar-ish and doesn't weigh as much as the giant Super Ténéré 1200.
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Bonhams' Stafford Motorcycle auctions are held each spring and autumn at the Staffordshire County Showgrounds in the United Kingdom, and these auctions invariably throw up some fascinating motorcycles.
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A few years ago, designers from Yamaha Corp and Yamaha Motor switched for a while. For the company's &Y project, engineers from both have collaborated on concept models, the latest being a music device made of vehicle parts.
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