There are few sport bike lines with as much heritage ... take advantage of the R3's surprisingly decent touring capabilities. Up next is the Yamaha YZF-R7, which debuted in 2022.

But where the MT-09 isn't getting any big updates for 2025, Yamaha has seen fit to bring a bevy of changes to the Tracer 9 to keep it competitive against the other major sport touring bikes.

When you think of Japanese motorcycles ... first generation Royal Star Venture was more of a sport tourer, but with the second generation, Yamaha decided to make it more along the lines of ...

Sport-nakeds had become the top-selling category of motorcycles by the early 2010s and Yamaha were forced back to the drawing board after failing to execute the tried and tested method of simply ...