While Yamaha's YZF-R3 and YZF-R15 look alike, there's an easy way to tell them apart, as the builds have their R-series number assignments emblazoned on their side panels. It so happens that the ...

Yamaha motorcycles designated with the "R" nomenclature, from the R1 to the R6, enjoy a cult following. The 600-class Yamaha YZF-R6, based on the 1,000cc grandaddy YZF-R1, debuted in 1998.

The Yamaha PW50 was a line of two-stroke dirt bikes that ran from 1981 to 2008, and it was first marketed as the "Y-Zinger." There was also a kid's trike called the 1984 Yamaha Tri-Zinger YT60.

If you’re a track-happy yoinker keen on Yamaha’s R1 for the circuits, you’re getting another year+ of inline-four insanity. Remember when tears were shed over the fact that Yamaha was phasing out ...