Make Model Yamaha YZF-R 125 Year 2012 Engine Liquid cooled, four stroke, single cylinder, DOHC, SOHC, 4 valve Capacity 124 Bore x Stroke 57 × 58.7mm Compression Ratio 10.4:1 Induction Fuel Injection Ignition  /  Starting TCI  /  electric Clutch Wet Multiple-disc Max Power 12.6 KW 17 hp @ 8500 rpm Max [...]

Check out this video for some serious skills on the new Yamaha R1  

Recently whilst browsing through the classifieds I came across a 2008 Yamaha with 10 000km silver, with many extra’s for R28 000. At the current exchange rate that works out to roughly USD 3500. So instantaneously I slammed my coffee to the desk and snatched my phone. I rang up the so called ‘owner’ to [...]

The YZF-R15 version 2.0 is a new model that has been developed under the concept of a “Graded Up R15.” While maintaining the proven ease of handling of the existing R15, the R15 version 2.0 boasts of spruced up looks and better performance in circuit riding. The design elements are borrowed from the supersport model [...]

Jorge Lorenzo was involved in an unfortunate accident in warm up during the Philip Island MotoGP race. He entered into a tank slapper and somehow managed to catch his left ring finger between the handle bars and the bike. The force of the tank slapper severed the end of his finger off which was later [...]

American Ben Spies, who was edged out of pole position by Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini Team), rode a perfect race to cross the line 7.697s ahead of Casey Stoner in second place. The Texan had a good start, allowing him to narrowly avoid the drama of the first lap, when pole starter Italian [...]

It was a Repsol Honda 1 – 2 on the podium, with Casey Stoner taking his 27th victory and the Championship lead in the AirAsia British Grand Prix MotoGP race on Sunday. Team mate Andrea Dovizioso finished second, with Colin Edwards (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) riding a brilliant race with a broken collarbone to land [...]

  2011 marks a very special moment in two wheeled motorsport as the 50th Anniversary of World Championship Grand Prix racing for Yamaha. As part of a series of ongoing activities to celebrate this landmark Yamaha Factory Racing will run a special livery, the ‘YZR-M1 WGP50th Anniversary Edition’ for the Assen TT and Laguna Seca [...]

After a race long-duel with fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing), Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) raced to victory at the bwin Grande Prémio de Portugal on Sunday and with it claimed his first win at the Estoril circuit in any class. Third was Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda). Pedrosa, who only recently had surgery on [...]

Casey Stoner had a titanic tussle with his Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa at the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar in the first round of the 2011 MotoGP World Championship to take all 25 points on his debut ride with the factory team. Stoner eventually finished 3.440s ahead of defending World Champion Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha [...]

2011 witnesses a landmark of World Championship Grand Prix racing for Yamaha, having successfully competed at the highest level for 50 years. From the very first Grand Prix entry in the French GP of 1961 to today, Yamaha has been an icon at the forefront of Grand Prix racing with countless victories delivered the world [...]

After thirteen stages of racing and more than 9000km covering two countries and a sizeable chunk of South America the 33rd Dakar rally has finished with Yamaha present on two of the final podiums. As the teams and riders celebrated the end of another gruelling event Yamaha Racing France Ipone’s Helder Rodrigues was thrilled to [...]

After a season fraught with challenges ranging from serious injury to race position penalties, Ronan Quarmby wrapped up the 2010 Interfile National Supersport Championship on board his Interfile/tyre in Transit Yamaha R6 after the first race of the final round of the championship series held at Kyalami this past weekend. Quarmby then went on to [...]

Going to Cape Town for your December holidays? Would love to be able to take advantage of the magnificent summer weather and cruise the mountain passes on a bike, or commute by bike through the traffic mayhem around Camps Bay? But you can’t take your bike with you because you have to pull a trailer [...]

Day two of the Valencia test started under better conditions than yesterday, allowing Yamaha Factory Racing riders Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies a full morning’s riding in the Spanish sunshine. Both riders had completed their testing schedule by the lunchtime break, giving the Yamaha engineers enough data to work over the winter break for the [...]