The City of Johannesburg extraordinary council meeting to approve the 2025/26 operating adjustment budget was abandoned after the item failed to get the required votes, forcing deputy mayor and ...
In the '90s, Japan's "big four" (Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha) clashed for superbike supremacy, making some of the fastest and wildest superbikes the world had ever seen. Launched in 1998, the ...
If you own any three point hitch implements that are PTO driven, they likely have some sort of fail safe that will save you from damaging your tractor's transmission. There are generally two kinds, a ...
Government has offered public sector unions a new wage deal, which includes a monthly cash allowance of R1 000. The offer will see the lowest-paid workers get a 11.7% payment hike. A Cosatu ...
Once an absolute force to be reckoned with, the iconic Yamaha R1 now seems to be slowly walking into the setting sun. Ironically, this is happening in the land of the rising sun (AKA Japan) with the ...
Charles has been in the industry for 19 years now, and has worked with brands such as Autocar India, Overdrive, Motoring World, CarWale, BikeWale and Powerdrift. He has more experience reviewing cars, ...
If you spend enough time on the internet, it’s easy to feel like you’ve seen it all. Lots of horsepower in a tiny car. An engine stuffed in both sides of a car. Pfft, that’s been done. So, here’s ...
Yamaha Motor Company has launched the 2025 YFZ-R1 and YFZ-R1M for certain global markets. There is no official word on the India launch. The flagship Yamaha motorcycle features a series of changes.
The new R1 is powered by the same 998cc CP4 crossplane engine mated to a compact, stacked six-speed transmission with advanced assist and slipper clutch. It features a ride-by-wire Yamaha Chip ...
There are far fewer established bike makers in this world than automakers. In some sense, that means the competition between them is a lot more fierce, in all aspects of their existence, from sales to ...
"A DOWNGRADED small-capacity R1 engine and budget suspension" - that's Jon Urry's first impression of the 2010 Yamaha FZ8 and Fazer 8. Jon's testing the new 800cc machines in Southern France and here ...
The 2007 R1 looks the goods but is it? Who better to say than Niall Mackenzie, ex-GP god turned mortal? Yamaha's target for the fifth-generation 2007 R1 was simple - to put it back on top as the best ...