Yamaha Motorcycle Reviews

With two new shattering four-stroke dirtbikes available for 2002 in the shape of the Honda CRF450 and Yamaha YZ426, we sent our resident off-road specialist Steven Pheasant to various mudholes around the UK to figure out who's packing the big gun.

Yes, it's been out for a while but Yamaha never invited us on the launch. We pitch it against London's broken streets and Birmingham's frozen motorways.

WHEN  it comes to scooters we're miles off the European way of thinking: scooters, especially maxi-scooters, rule. Over here in the UK, we just don't get it; scooters are for delivering pizza or getting 16-year olds to work on time.

Yamaha's first triple for thirty years. Stonking engine and sweet handling belie the budget price tag

Simple to ride, but don't let it fool you!

Would a 100bhp limit be the end of motorcycling?

Can you really have the best of both worlds?

Good choice of door colour!

I've swapped the Speed Triple for something more suited to winter

With the 2012 R1, Yamaha enters the traction control club, but does it move the game on?

Yamaha's flagship scooter

We've lived with the Fazer8 for 3 weeks, how has it held up?

"A roadbike that ticks all the boxes" - we have four weeks to find out

Top Gear's James May and Autocar Magazine's Colin Goodwin team up with Yamaha and Harley-Davidson in a quest for the alternative to scary sports bikes.

I know the R6 well not only 'cos I raced one for three seasons in World Supersport but also because we used 'em as marshals' bikes on our track days.

One man's floor is another man's ceiling. The words 'sports bike' can mean very different things, so we compare two contrasting takes takes on a common theme.

Yamaha hadn’t achieved the racing success they wanted with their OW01, but Ducati enjoyed the opposite with the very pinnacle of 851 development in 1993

Cross-plane crank R1 gets slight restyling and traction control

So you want a brand new 2010 R1 but don’t have £13,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Despair not – the older model is a peach, so leap in there, grab a bargain. Here's how

In 1985 Yamaha launched an unashamed brute of a bike. Born on the drag strip the V-Max was a mass of metal and chrome which instantly drew a cult following. Now, 23 years on, does the old master still command any respect?