The Yamaha RD500LC is a high-performance, ... With the success in the early 1980s of Kenny Roberts and the Yamaha YZR500 in Grand Prix motorcycle racing Yamaha realised that a road going replica of their 500 cc racing machine would sell well. Using the similar technology of the smaller RD series of two-stroke motorcycles the RD500LC was ...

The 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 55th F.I.M. Road racing World Championship season. ... Yamaha Racing Team: 4, 9 Gauloises Yamaha Team: 4 Alex Barros: All 19 Olivier Jacque: All D'Antin Yamaha Team: 56 Shinya Nakano: All Source: Key Regular Rider Wildcard Rider

La Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd (ヤマハ発動機株式会社 Yamaha Hatsudōki Kabushikigaisha?) è un'azienda produttrice di veicoli motorizzati, motoveicoli e motori marini.Nasce il 1º luglio 1955 come scorporo dalla Yamaha Corporation, a sua volta inizialmente Nippon Gakki nata nel 1897 e impostasi come costruttrice di organi e pianoforti. È nota come "La casa dei tre diapason", …

The first bike manufactured by Yamaha was actually a copy of the German DKW RT 125; it had an air-cooled, two-stroke, single cylinder 125 cc engine; YC-1 (1956) was the second bike manufactured by Yamaha; it was a 175 cc single cylinder two-stroke. YD-1 (1957) Yamaha began production of its first 250 cc, two-stroke twin, the YD1.

The Yamaha YZF-R6 is a sport bike, produced by Yamaha as a 600 class from 1999 to 2020. From 2021, production availability is limited to race-only specification in most global markets, causing race organisers to re-align their engine eligibility criteria to encourage other manufacturers having larger than 600 cc displacements to enter road-race competition from …

The 2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 58th Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) Road racing World Championship season. The season consisted out of 17 races for the MotoGP class and 16 for the 125cc and 250cc classes, beginning with the Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix on 26 March 2006 and ending with the Valencian Community …

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Yamaha launched the YZF-R1 in 1998 after redesigning the Genesis engine to create a more compact engine by raising the gearbox input shaft and allowing the gearbox output shaft to be placed beneath it. This "stacked gearbox" was followed by other manufacturers. Compacting the engine made it much shorter, allowing the wheelbase to be shortened as well and the center of …

Yamaha MotoGP Racing or Yamaha Factory Racing is the official Italian-Japanese factory team of Yamaha in MotoGP.. The team was founded in 1999 following the retirement of Wayne Rainey, who had run a factory-supported team in the 500 cc class for the previous two years, with Kenny Roberts and Giacomo Agostini having run their own works supported teams before him.

History. The team was created by former world champion Jorge Martínez in 1992, when he was still riding a Honda RS125R.For 1993 Martínez expanded his operations into the 250cc class debuting with Juan Borja.For the next two seasons the Aspar team switched to Yamaha TZ125 bikes leaving the 250cc division. In 1996 Aspar started an 18-year relationship with Aprilia; in …