The Yamaha YZF-R6 for 2010 gets a few updates to its engine management system, increasing torque at lower and mid revs. The muffler has also been redesigned to contribute to the greater acceleration response and smoother progression in torque and power.

While still the same bike in its essentials, the YZF-R6 has been designed to improve on both the road and track handling riding experience it’s famous for. The 2010 model is available in Yamaha Blue, Competition White and Midnight Black.

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This Yamaha YZF-R1 has been transformed into an M1 replica, of which only the chassis of the original seems to have remained.

The engine is a Superbike-spec, with the same forks used by Carlos Checa in the 2003 MotoGP, and an Ohlins TTX shock absorber. The exhaust is from the UK and the 16.5 inch alloy wheels come from Dymags.

The details have been attended to maniacally. The price for this little gem is 65,000 USD, equivalent to about 50,700 euros (something less than a Ducati Desmosedici RR). It is currently produced and distributed in the US and UK by GP Motorsports.

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British GSE Racing announced today that it will enter a new partnership over the next 3 years with Yamaha. GSE Racing will ride the next coming years with direct Yamaha factory support with the YZF-R1.

Yamaha Managing Director Andrew Smith is very delighted about the new partnership with GSE Racing, the most succesful race team in the UK.

Team Manager Colin Wright commented: “We are very excited about the new association with Yamaha, this represents a new challenge for the team but as ever we intend to be competing for the British Superbike Championship from the start.”

Team Principal Darrell Healey added: “We have had an excellent relationship with Ducati over the years, winning 3 British Superbike Championships and achieving numerous successes in the World Superbike arena. I’d like to thank them on behalf of the entire team for their support.”

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Here are the first two official videos of the new Yamaha YZF-R1 2009 model. The first is an introductory video, and in the second you can see Colin Edwards who describes the characteristics of the new Yamaha model.

Both videos were presented at the press conference at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas where Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Colind Edwards and James Toseland were present. After the jump, the second video.

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The Yamaha YZF-R1 2009 has been presented for the European market, showing a radical superbike look with some great technological innovation. The 998cc engine has been developed with a MotoGP culture, and never before has this bike been so linked to the technology developed in MotoGP.

The bike has a special Deltabox alluminium chassis and improvements to the engine have been made through the mechanics, not the electronics of the bike. The racing double overhead camshaft is a significant element for this bike, giving it incredible linear torque and high traction levels. Torque control is the crowning success of this 2009 YZF-R1.

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A winning model should never change and so Yamaha is keeping its successful YZF-R6 as it is for 2009, offering just a couple of extra colours - Racing Red and Midnight Black.

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Our reader, ottononservono, gave us this tip of a Chinese site that sells motorcycles at such low prices we doubt them to be true.

A Ducati 1098 Biposto is going for 2,400 EUR (could it really be euro??), and a Yamaha R1 from 2006 is up for only 1,550 EUR - it’s just a shame the one in the photo is a YZF-R6 and not an R1.

The e-commerce site doesn’t just sell motorbikes, although we recommend you check out the credentials before making any purchases!

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Paola Cazzola, born in Vicenza, Italy, riding her Yamaha YZF R1 from the Yamaha Team Pielle Moto. Paola likes motocross, jet ski, snow boarding and motor racing. Paola is a winner, she won the Italian Campionato Italiano Motocicliste in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and the European Women Cup in 2006.

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Paola Cazzola Yamaha

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It’s still the lovely Yamaha YZF-R1 2009 and one of the most anticipated supersports motorcycles for next year. Motociclismo.es has put together these shots from MCN, collected from some spying and rumour mongering going on.

The company is said to be working on a super-lightweight superbike, thanks to the use of magnesium in many of its components, including chassis, engine carter and others. The magnesium should allow a two kilo reduction in weight in the chassis and overall a good ten kilos less. For a 190 hp bike, that’s hardly to be sniffed at.

The look will be similar to that of the smaller and slimmer YZF-R6, with a short side exhaust. No news on the engine is available, but it could be a four cylinder in-line, along with a new traction control system. The 2009 Superbike Championships are already looking hot.

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The YZF is a name that guarantees: it invented the four-stroke of the modern cross, showing the way for those who followed. And now the Yamaha YZ four-stroke (with an F), is among the bikes that have dominated motocross, starting from the 1997 debut, and since 2004 has won more world titles than any other in the MX1 and MX2 classes.

The YZF have been the perfect alliance between champions of calibre such as Josh Coppins and David Philippaerts (in Mx1) in addition to local Antonio Cairoli in the MX2, who are around again in 2008 to race in the world championships.

We also add that Chad Reed has recently won the prestigious AMA-SX, and even in the World Female Championships Katherine Prumm is battling with her YZ250F: and the scene is complete.

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