Yamaha

Cast your mind back to the 1960sm the Beatles were top of the pops, BSA, Norton and Triumph were ‘kings of the road’ and the Japanese were only famous for tiddlers, two-strokes and cameras. A big disadvantage when any serious motorcyclist...

By: Brooklands Books . Starting with the FZR1000 in 1988, Yamaha introduced several motorcycle engineering firsts including the boxed aluminum DeltaBox frame, advanced intake and exhausts technologies including a 5 valve-per-cylinder head and an exhaust...