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Yamaha Tesseract – Ouch, my brain!

Monday, October 29, 2007

As complex as the fourth-dimensional hyper cube after which it is named (ask Carl Sagan), the Yamaha Tesseract made quite a splash here in the 3rd dimension. What is it? A tall quadrunner? A 4-wheeled motorcycle? An MP4? I don’t know how to classify it other than an oddity. Is there really any more of […]

Yamaha pulls out the stops for the Tokyo Motor Show

Saturday, October 6, 2007

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Yamaha makes the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show fun again with a boat load of new prototypes. Continuing with their tradition of flashing fanciful scooters during the Tokyo show and doing a damn good job of taking the spotlight away from Honda, Yamaha has some real eye-candy for you this year starting with their take on […]

Off topic?: VH1′s The Pickup Artist concludes… scooterist doesn’t win this time

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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(Portland scooterist and pickup artist who bowed out too soon… Spoon) Don’t know if you were keeping up with this entertaining and educational show. I won’t say the winner’s name to prevent spoilage, but I will mention another one of the competitors, Stephen Poon AKA Spoon (title link). Sure, he may have been the first […]

A fresh load of Tokyo Hotness available for your viewing pleasure

Thursday, September 20, 2007

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Our good friend in the Land of the Rising Sun, Kuroneko (AKA Skorji), has graced us with a fresh batch of Japanese customs today. Lots of great ideas for Yamahas, Hondas, and more! I love Kuroneko’s work so much… I supported him by hooking him up with a Pro account at Flickr. I mean, where […]

Bat Maxam!

Friday, September 7, 2007

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Remember the “Ghost Morph” from last November? This is a photo shared by Tokyo_Scooter_Stuff titled “Maxam – Gero Gero version”. I’m a newb when it comes to cool Japanese phrases, so I don’t know what Gero Gero means. Best I could find was that it meant “Ribbit Ribbit” or “Disgusting”. Personally, I think it’s kinda […]

Yamaha C3′s new colors for 2008

Monday, August 13, 2007

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For 2007 we had the C3 available in Yamaha Team Blue and also in Silver. In 2008 (starting November 2007) we can expect to see a new Red and a White version of the C3. Everything else is pretty much the same. Still expect the jaw dropping 116 MPG performance from her.