Whether you’re a veteran rider or a beginner motorcyclist, you shouldn’t let price tags get in the way of enjoying a great motorcycle ride when the highways, country backroads, and urban streets beckon. Concerns that…

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Yamaha has taken the luxury hi-fi game to a whole new level with their latest release: the YH-5000SE luxury headphones. These over-ear headphones are both rugged and subtle with a magnesium-machined frame and a soft…

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The summer isn’t over just yet, so there’s still ample time for a road trip… on two wheels. Even with current stratospheric gas prices, there’s still nothing like an open-road motorcycle road trip to escape…

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While streaming continues to be the dominant music listening platform, there has been a significant uptick in physical audio purchases. Most notably in vinyl sales but CDs and even cassette tapes have seen a resurgence…

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The turning of the weather means the motorcycling season has kicked in. Motorcycling is truly liberating, and just because most folks are intimidated by the notion of cruising down the highway on two wheels with…

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More of a moped than a scooter, the EMF is a joint effort between Yamaha and Taiwanese firm Gogoro. The EMF uses Gogoro’s swappable battery tech, and the body of the scooter is slicker than…

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The Yamaha Ténéré 700 is a great adventure bike that hits the model line’s middle sweet spot. The folks at famed Deus Ex Machina developed their own version of the Ténéré 700 for its annual…

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The end of the aughts Yamaha TTR250 Motorcycle is a small-bore dual-sport bike that’s as reliable and efficient as it is, well, if we’re being honest, unassuming and otherwise boring. This is most certainly not…

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Indonesia’s Studio Motor has created a truly special vintage-style Speedway bike based on a midsize 1980 Yamaha XS650 cruiser. ‘The Skinny’ is inspired from drifting oval-track racers, and it looks like it came straight from…

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Named after a desert region in the south-central Sahara, the Ténéré is a dual-sport legend since 1983. The new 700 Rally Edition pays homage to the Yamaha factory bikes raced by Paris-Dakar ridersJean-Claude Olivier and…

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This dirt bike turned bona fide flat tracker is known as “The Edge” (no relation to U2’s guitarist). The German father and son custom bike shop team of Michael and Allen Posenauertook a Yamaha WR400…

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If you’re looking for a phenomenal bike to ride around the island of Bali as you enjoy your time in Indonesia, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better option than what Joy Ride Motocamp–aka JRM–has…

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What does it take to turn a small vintage Japanese moto into a murdered out beauty that will turn heads today? About 550 hours of meticulous craftsmanship. French moto shop Panache Customs morphed the 1977…

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Taiwanese moto shop Hide Work Custom just built an aggressive scrambler/tracker-style bike out of 155cc Yamaha MT15 by imbuing it with the kind of styling more commonly found on big displacement bikes. It gets a…

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ESG has created one superb Yamaha bobber crafted from an XS650 Special from the ’80s. Normally, ESG specializes in customized cafe racers, but this divergence has paid off in terms of artistry. The black and…

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Over the past handful of years we’ve seen a big resurgence of custom bikes based on the American classic that is the flat tracker. Leave it to Deus Ex Machina to add the special touches…

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