Yamaha racing teams have designed some striking liveries for the XSR900 GP to celebrate the victories of the race-winning Yamaha YZR500 two-stroke Grand Prix bike. Yamaha revealed all seven XSR900 ...

This Custom-Built Yamaha XZ 550 Nods to Kenny Roberts’ Legendary YZR500 Published: 30 Dec 2023, 18:52 UTC • By: Silvian Secara 10 photos ...

I am from Austria. I have built a replica of Norick Abe´s 1999 YZR500 based on a Yamaha RD500 engine. Modifications and one-off parts are a long list, it took me six years to complete the bike.

Now thanks to Mico Products, you can have your very own, fully-working, fully usable Yamaha YZR500 replica for £18,000. Watch the video for more tech details and a closer look at the Mico YZR500 rep.

For many years the YZR500 has been respected as the best-handling 500, so it has been Yamaha's desire to instil the YZR-M1 with similar characteristics. To that end the YZR-M1 utilises a chassis ...