When Yamaha's "new" YZF-R1 ... a super-sport 600. Sounds familiar, eh? Although total claimed horsepower of 152 hp at 10,500 rpm is only a couple of ponies up on the previous-generation bike ...

On one hand, we’re seeing the slow death of the beautiful 600 cc super-sport class ... now, the all-new Yamaha YZF-R7. If the latter name sounds familiar, it should. The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 ...

This is why Yamaha is working on the next-generation YZF-R1, which would sit at the top of the sports bike lineup upon arrival. Hirotoshi Noguchi, General Manager of the Product Design Division at ...

The Yamaha YZF-R6 was introduced ... The R6 has a history of being “the first motorcycle to…” including the first over 100 HP at 600cc when it launched in 1999, and it continues to be one of the most ...

Less than a decade ago, 600-cc supersport ... almost overnight. Yamaha, for instance, had sold about 110,000 YZF-R6s in the U.S. – its largest market – in the first nine years of ...

Like most motorcycle manufacturers Yamaha doesn’t list ... clutch out and get moving, your first impression is that there’s a big gulf between 300ccs and 600, or a thousand.

Finally, a new 600 supersport from Yamaha for 2017. How new is it?

Switching to a cross-plane crankshaft, the Yamaha YZF-R1 was one of the first liter-class superbikes ... images pointing toward its use on the next-gen Yamaha YZF-R1. A seamless gearbox, once ...

Yamaha has decided to now give ... purpose of the famed parent. The original YZF-R7 was an absolute expert-level machine, whereas the new-generation offering has a far broader reach when it ...