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Marc Marquez made it four victories out of four to start the 2025 MotoGP season by winning the Argentina Grand Prix at Termas de Rio Hondo on Sunday. 

Nostalgia sells. It always has, and the motorcycle market is no exception. The so-called "retro tax" is alive and well—just look at all the café racers, scramblers, and sportbikes with classic styling that command a premium over their more "vanilla" counterparts. Why? Because motorcycles are emotional machines. If pure practicality…

Manufacturers are working hard to make their bikes more efficient, whether through better combustion tech, aerodynamics, or weight reduction. But with tightening emissions standards and rising fuel costs, many brands are going electric.

The Mad Max soundtrack heavyweight was still best known for his A Little Less Conversation remix when we spoke to him in 2008

The Yamaha R9 is hands down the coolest sportbike to come out in years. Yeah, I’m biased, I’ll admit that upfront, but tell me another manufacturer that’s done what Yamaha just did. Instead of watering down a middleweight with budget components or an uninspiring engine, they went all in and…

This technology-packed digital piano is the ultimate home learning companion for aspiring pianists - all backed by Yamaha’s renowned craftsmanship

I think it's pretty clear what the motorcycling world is calling out for right now—a $110,000 bagger. Of course, this couldn't be further from the truth and it's a pretty extreme example. But in a time where the cost of living is getting out of hand, we as motorcyclists have…

I have a confession to make: I am an absolute Yamaha simp. No, really. I’ve owned three MT-07s, an MT-10, an XSR900, a Fazzio, and even a PG-1. And if Yamaha came out with a toaster that sounded like a crossplane R1, I’d probably buy that too.

A recent CFMoto patent shows that the brand could be developing a new parallel twin engine with a continuously variable transmission (CVT). The patent itself is interesting, but I think it's more interesting to imagine where the future lies for this powertrain.

The Live Aid orchestrator and Ultravox synth-pop pioneer looks back at his trial by fire with Thin Lizzy, swapping out his Yamaha electric because it wasn’t cool enough, refusing to join the Sex Pistols, and how The Edge might have changed Band Aid’s charity single

Honda won the inter-Japanese contest in the Thai Grand Prix after Johann Zarco finished seventh on the best of the RC213Vs, four places ahead of the highest-placed Yamaha of Jack Miller.