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    2012 Yamaha WR450F
    2012 Yamaha WR450F is now here. However, before I write about how every thing updated, new, borrowed & unique, you may wish to ask your self what a perfect off-road 450 cc-class bike should be. Do not compromise. Your expectations should be set high. This is 2012 after all. I’d think that manufacturer can build perfect bike now & never mind fact that they’ve EPA, DOT, CARB & some other acronyms for appeasing. We’d want 2-stroke lightness, fuel-injected smoothness, four-stroke traction, plush suspension which doesn’t bottoms out ever, & we’d want it looking really awesome & unique at same time. We’d want it to be legal on street & I’d want for racing too. Finally, it should be cheap. Knowing the consumer-bred difficulty that is going in to such exercise is why it is pretty exciting  [...]
    Posted at April 12th, 2012 in Yamaha
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    2012 Yamaha Zuma 125 – Tough Scooter
    If you are castrated by riding a scooter having a small-bore, then the Yamaha Zuma 125 is just for you. With its plump, semi-knotty tires, rocky belligerent styling (specifically in black) and sufficient power to take the rider at pace equivalent to any average bike, the 2012 Yamaha Zuma 125 is as mannish as it is reasonable. While most of the scooters are variants of urban themed street-legal scooters, the Zuma 125 emits a lot more audacious brashness with a guise which suggests adventure biking and pace. All that daring spirit of the bike comes from the plump 12-in rim 130/70 rear and 120/70 front enduring tires. The big-diameter bare steel chassis is one styling component for the 2012 Yamaha Zuma 125, which could be attributed for the usage of plastic in the bike by the Yamaha designers. Even the plastic used at the bottom of  [...]
    Posted at February 13th, 2012 in Yamaha
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    Yamaha Bikes: Raider & Roadstar
    Yamaha Bikes have been in the market since decades says Mr. Ginichi Kawakami, President of Yamaha Motor Company. Yamaha is one of the largest motorcycle manufacturing companies in the world with its motto, creativity and strong spirit of challenge. The company was found in the year 1877 as Nippon Gakki Company which was later changed to Yamaha Corporation, manufacturer of fine musical instruments. The company grew very fast and explored many fields of opportunity in textile industry. During Second World War, company set up a factory for manufacturing airplane propellers which played an important role in Yamaha’s entry to motorcycle industry. Yamaha Bikes initially started with the production of scooters in the year 1955 and began exporting them to United States in 1960s. Most of the models launched by Yamaha became quite successful  [...]
    Posted at January 27th, 2011 in Yamaha
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    Yamaha motorcycles: Yamaha FZ600S
    Yamaha Motorcycles is a conglomerate based Multinational Corporation in Japan which is involved in manufacturing motorcycles, musical instruments and electronics and power sports equipments. The company was found in the year 1887 by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company Limited in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. After Second World War, Genichi Kawakami, president of Yamaha, repurposed the production of machineries and metallurgical technologies for manufacturing motorcycles. The first motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha was YA-1 which was powered by single cylinder 125CC two-stroke engine. In the year 1959, success of YA-1 resulted in founding new firm called Yamaha Motor Company Limited. Yamaha Motorcycles is a Japanese vehicle manufacturing company and a part of Yamaha Corporation which is located in Iwata, Shizuoka. In 1955, Genichi  [...]
    Posted at December 31st, 2010 in Yamaha
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    Yamaha bikes: Yamaha YZF R6 & Yamaha YZF R1
    Yamaha Bikes has manufactured more than one million bikes in a year which leaves Suzuki far behind. Till mid fifties, Yamaha didn’t launch any of their motorcycle. Torakusa Yamaha is the father of Yamaha and in the year 1887 he started manufacturing reed organs. Today it is known to be the second largest bike producer in the world which is way far for a fledging company that has just arrived in motorcycle industry. The first bike produced by Yamaha was YA1 that comes with single cylinder two-stroke 125cc engine and is a copy of German motorcycle. This bike is also known as Red Dragonfly which laid the foundation of company’s reputation for success and reliability on the race track. The first motorcycle designed by Yamaha Bikes was launched in the year 1957. In those times, Yamaha was the only company to provide sports model  [...]
    Posted at December 1st, 2010 in Yamaha