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Race Bike Rundown GYTR YZ125

The Yamaha YZ125 truly stands the test of time and now 15 years after its last major update, the bike still has the track credibility to win not just races but championships at any level. It has been a main stay on the podium at junior nationals in recent years and even took out a world championship in 2018. Read More
Coming of Age

Maximus Purvis is a rising star of New Zealand motocross with several championships under his belt and is now ready to announce his arrival in the Australian MX2 scene at the 2020 MX Nationals. Read More
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