Loris Capirossi is on a hot streak. Three straight pole positions in three straight races. Since he went on to win the last two races, are we seeing the new rising star? Valentino Rossi won the championship last week but there are other positions up for contention in the championship points race plus much to [...]
September 2005
While I was perusing the new Yamaha models yesterday, I noticed something we haven’t seen for some time, … horsepower numbers. Right there among all of the other specs were clearly stated horsepower figures, FJR1300 at 145 hp, FZ1 at 150, R1 at 183, pretty interesting stuff. When Kawasaki released their new models, those numbers [...]
The big Yamaha FJR series has always been a very nice bike, lots of folks swear these are the best sport touring machines out there. This year, Yamaha has a nice high tech touch available on the FJR1300 AE model, electric shift five speed transmission, there’s no clutch lever. You shift with paddles on the [...]
Yamaha brought out all of their new 2006 models, among them, the 2006 Yamaha R6. We don’t see the need to review each model every company brings out, they have whole websites for that, but we like to highlight a few distinctive features here and there. The feature about the R6 you’ve probably heard about [...]
