Yamaha products have become part of a wide range of recreational items and industrial products, such as motorcycles, scooters, four-wheelers, snowmobiles, outboards, water vehicles, boats, golf cars, go kart engines, power generators, water and sludge pumps, industrial engines and accessories.
Little engine. Big fun. Yamaha understand how to have fun without needing a big bore quad.
THE word Tenere - a word boldly emblazed on many Yamaha off-road bikes over the past couple of decades literally means desert. And if riding in the desert isn't your idea of an adventure, I'm not sure you still have a pulse.
Apart from the small Virago Yamaha didn't really have anything in this category and now they've filled the void with something that is really going to take it up to the competition.
When Yamaha released the details of their 2011 YZ450 and there were no major changes, we weren't exactly surprised. The blue empire stayed with what they know for season 2011.
If Yamaha has purposely gone the modular motorcycle route then it's worked in this case, it's produced a motorcycle which is easy and exciting to ride.
YAMAHA'S XT660R still follows the time honoured XT ethos of being a big single cylinder machine that is well and truly road capable, but will still get the blood pumping when the tar disappears and the dirt appears.
YAMAHA has been a leader in the four stroke revolution of off road bikes, which is a testament to the quality and number of its bikes you see hit the trails or track with regularity.
IT MIGHT be dubbed the super trail from its makers, but the Yamaha WR250R is a true road trail machine with the right blend of both road and off-road manners.



