2010 Yamaha YZF-R6 graves as the Project Bike 1. This is a modified Supersport bike that comes with interesting features. As part of the first stage of the build, this bike comes with a few popular power-up goodies such as full titanium race exhaust system, YEC-kit ECU and Dynojet Power Commander V.

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Yamaha Motors India is aiming to enter the gearless scooter segment very soon. A special scooter will be designed by Yamaha for the Indian road conditions. Known as a global leader in the gearless technology for manufacturing two wheelers, Yamaha Motors has efficient scooters ranging from 50cc to 500cc.

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Yamaha is back in news for re-signing the Jorge Lorenzo in which the Spaniard will remain with the factory for the next two years. The 23 year old Lorenzo, who joined Yamaha in 2008 is popular for winning seven races.

Recently Yamaha Motor Europe unveiled the new 2011 Yamaha Scooter line-up. The main highlights of this new line-up are X-Max 125 and 250 bikes. This new collection has two versions, including, the sport and the business versions. Featuring new designer styling and all new color scheme, these new scooters have increased braking performance and more under seat storage.

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  The world renowned, automobile maker, Yahama Motors, has released its plan for launching two new bikes for 2011.

Sanyo will be officially supplying lithium-ion batteries to the Yamaha electric motorcycle, EC-03. The Yamaha electric motorcycle is set to debut in September where the battery combines a number of 18650 sized cylindrical lithium-ion batteries typically used for consumer equipment such as laptops.

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Yamaha is all set to double its India-based showrooms which will help aid in the company’s intent to tap the rural market. India Yamaha aims to increase their number of showrooms to 2,000, majority of which will be situated at small towns and rural hubs.

The company is refurbishing some of the existing outlets in small towns and rural hubs and adding new ones called Yamaha Bike Corners, organizing free motorcycle service camps and test rides. Sales of scooters rose 27 percent to 1.46 million units in the year ended March 31.

The prototypes of Yamaha’s EC-03 were shown last year and now it looks like they are going to invade the Asian regions as well. In fact, they are scheduled to invade Japan this coming Summer to kick off what you can safely call the Asian Invasion.

Yamaha is joining the fray over at India as it plans to launch new scooter lines. At the moment, they are doing their homework and studying market trends. The product line has not yet been named but they will definitely launch a scooter line over at India as bared by India Yamaha Motor National Business Head Pankaj Dubey.

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I don’t know if this scooter concept ever moved from being a concept to a reality but the 2010 Yamaha T-Max 750 scooter was really something made to answer the Gilera GP800. It features an engine capacity of 750 sm.kub. backed with 3 cylinders to power its 500 cubic power unit model.