26/02/16
SO many bikes make so much power that you have to ration it on the road. What happened to machines that were fun because you could spend an entire afternoon thrashing one without going to jail? I don't mean bikes that are just slow.
Yamaha Motorcycle Reviews
24/02/16
Three years after its debut, with the addition of traction control and an improved throttle response for 2016, the MT-09 is still an astonishing bike for the money
24/02/16
Tom Rayner gives his verdict on the latest addition to Yamaha's Sports Heritge range - the XSR900.
02/02/16
Tom Rayner is in Fuerteventura to ride Yamaha's new XSR900
02/02/16
THE latest member in Yamaha's eclectic and rapidly multiplying range of Sports Heritage bikes is the XSR900. With heritage looks and the DNA of the hugely-successful MT-09 – what could possibly go wrong? Very little is the answer.
21/12/15
We pit the two hottest A2 bikes of 2015 against each other in a back-to-back road test
25/11/15
Yamaha has hipster-fied the popular MT-07 to make the new XSR700. So is it worth the £500 extra? Visordown found out at the launch in Sardinia.
24/11/15
Light, mischievous and a lot of bang for not too much buck
28/10/15
Visordown's only road tester with a 'man bun' is sent to Sardinia to ride Yamaha's XSR700
28/10/15
'WE'VE seen our friends in Bologna doing well so we're jumping on the hipster band wagon,' joked Shun Miyazawa, Yamaha's project manager during the presentation of the XSR700. The joke fell flat... perhaps because there's truth said in jest.
23/10/15
The two newest, hottest sub-400cc A2 sports bikes set against each other
07/10/15
Another batch of R1Ms is coming to the UK for 2016. Find out what the higher-spec R1 is like on road and track.
21/09/15
The base-model R1 recently beat Ducati’s 1299 Panigale S in a Visordown back-to-back test - so what in hellfire is the higher-spec R1M like?
04/08/15
The two hottest new sports bikes of the year, head-to-head on road and track
23/07/15
The two hottest new sports bikes of the year, head-to-head on road and track
15/07/15
400 miles from Barcelona to Biarritz on the XJR1300 café racer edition
26/06/15
Yamaha guns for Honda's PCX with the new NMAX 125
22/05/15
The sporty face of maxi-scooters gets sportier
24/04/15
We head out to Catalunya to ride Yamaha's entry-level sports bike on road and track
14/04/15
Bikes under 500cc haven't been so exciting for decades
13/04/15
After a week riding the 2015 R1, Luke's struggling to find anything he doesn't like
09/04/15
A week on Yamaha's new 200hp superbike and Luke doesn't want to give it back