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Race Bike Rundown CDR Yamaha YZ450F

Take a brand new YZ450F, add in the most experienced and professional team in the pits and a rider with years of racing knowledge and you get a race bike that is the envy of others. Read More
Race Bike Rundown YRT R1

Yamaha’s thundering R1 has been an iconic and flag-ship model for the brand as it represents the company not only on the road in the sports bike market, but also on the race tracks around the world in major championship events. Read More
Five Year Flashback

The last five years have seen Jay Wilson pack a lot into his life. In that time, he has won championships in both Australia and New Zealand, raced in Europe, had a daughter, got married, raced in the US and continued to race in Australia and started a coaching business. Read More
Race Bike Rundown

Over the coming weeks, we will lift the lid on some of the race bikes used by the Yamaha Racing teams during the 2020 season. With the production bike at such a high level of performance, refining a bike for race conditions is more a matter of personalising it to the rider rather than making wholesale changes. Read More
Colouring In Competition

Enter our colouring in competition and you could WIN one of six Xbox One S MotoGP18 Bundles. Read More
Teammate Takedown

The Yamaha Active8 Yamalube Racing team are an eccentric bunch of characters. And, the two lead riders, Josh Green and Luke Styke, are the odd couple of the off road world. Two riders are so different in so many ways yet have a common goal in racing and a love for riding dirt bikes that has spanned decades. Read More
Information Highway

Yamaha Motor Australia has a vast bank of knowledge when it comes to motocross coaching. Most states have their own coach in place to cater for riders of all levels and across all off road disciplines and Yamaha continue to work with them to ensure they offer the best possible advice and tuition. Read More
Two Tribes

Both were riders at the highest level. Both have managed race teams to great success. Both have been in racing for over 30 years. One is JCR, the other is CDR. Coppins and Dack. Between them there are countless championships around the world, years of experience and a shared passion of dirt bikes. Read More
Fountain of Knowledge

In 2016, Yamaha celebrated its 60th anniversary and part of that was a travelling road show of famous bikes and people that make up Yamaha and more importantly, Yamaha Australia. Of course, the usual suspects were rolled out, Stephen Gall, Craig Dack and Geoff Ballard but another person was part of that group and has had just as big an impact to Yamaha as each of the names above. Read More
Back on Blue

The name Hayden Mellross to Australian fans usually conjures up two memorable moments, neither of them pretty. One is the heart break of losing the Australian SX2 Supercross Championship when his bike stopped on the final lap, at the final round of the championship in Sydney, while leading and causing a DNF that saw defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. The other is his monumental crash in the 2016 AMA SX where both he and his bike went hurdling over a berm and onto an infield fence causing riders and teams to scatter as the carnage flashed before their eyes. Read More