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As the era of Naked Bikes arrived in the early 1990s, Yamaha was behind the trend and wanted to keep up with their competitors. With the arrival of the Kawasaki Zephyr, Yamaha based their benchmarks on the renowned motorcycle and the result was a 399cc oil-cooled sports naked motorcycle, the XJR400.
The first bike manufactured by Yamaha was actually a copy of the German DKW RT 125; it had an air-cooled, two-stroke, single cylinder 125 cc engine [1] YC-1 (1956) was the second bike manufactured by Yamaha; it was a 175 cc single cylinder two-stroke. [1] YD-1 (1957) Yamaha began production of its first 250 cc, two-stroke twin, the YD1. [1]
The Yamaha XJR1200 is a motorcycle manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Company. It was designed in the early 1990s to compete with the high powered naked bikes already on the market such as the Kawasaki Zephyr 1100 and Honda CB1000 .
In 2009 Yamaha re-launched the Diversion line in the form of the XJ6 Diversion, XJ6 N and XJ6 Diversion F. [2] The former has a half-fairing while the N version is a naked motorcycle. The fully faired FZ6R is the American equivalent to the European XJ6 Diversion F model with the exception of not having the ABS and electronic immobilizer.
Yamaha Lagenda (known as Jupiter Z in Indonesia & Vietnam. Vega in the Philippines and Spark Re in Thailand) is a series of underbone motorcycle produced by Yamaha for the Southeast Asian market. It was introduced for the 2000 model year replacing the SRX 100. A more performance-oriented version of the Lagenda is marketed as ZR.
Yamaha was the first to build a production monoshock motocross bike (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross production bike (1977 in works bikes, 1981 in off-the-shelf bikes). Yamaha's first Motocross competition four-stroke bike, the YZ400F, won the 1998 USA outdoor national Championship with ...
President-elect Trump mocked his ex-ally, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Saturday by seizing on the mysterious New Jersey drone controversy on his social media.
Oil prices dipped as the decision from OPEC+ to delay a planned hike in output to April highlighted concerns about weak demand. Brent crude futures fell 0.5% to $71.71, while U.S. West Texas ...