Archive for the ‘Tech Stuff’ Category

Yamaha Official Wide Wheel kit 2014

  Yamaha VMAX blog has been testing the Yamaha Official Wide Wheel kit (240 series tire) for the past few months. When the 2014 VMax first came out, we immediately checked for clearance to see if a 240 + widened rim would fit. Soon after the launch Yamaha Europe announced at last year’s Yamaha dealer […]

Yamaha VMAX Cruiser with power

  At the end of the decade of the 90s, the team Yamaha VMAX development began work on the revival of the VMAX. They knew how special it was the VMAX for their owners, and for all those who admired that bike even without having ever worn. The team scored four goals project is essential […]

VMAX Customization on steroids

Do you remember the Hyper modified draft of the Yamaha V-MAX? At that time 3 of the great masters in the world of personalization such as Marcus Walz, Ronald Sands and Ludovic Lazareth got to work to create as many units of Nippon really spectacular special model.   Now these great teachers were invited by […]

Yamaha Star VMAX Comparison

In the land of bigger is better, a motorcycle like the VMAX has a lot of pull – literal and figurative. The PR claim is a head-glitching 197.4 horsepower at the crank, so our test began in full once we rolled the burly Star onto the dyno Shop owner, Mickey, said it all after the […]

2007 Yamaha V-Max devilish patents revealed

For those of you with a technical bent here are some of the original patent elements of the latest VMAX as submitted by none other than Yamaha´s engineers The patent drawings, taken from several patent applications regarding different aspects of the bike, show how the firm is developing the stubby exhausts of its 2005 concept […]