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2007 Yamaha FJR1300 Comparison
…superb-handling Yamaha FJR1300 was back for top honors in our '08 shootout.2007 Yamaha FJR1300 Motoring at a rapid pace up the coast past Cambria and San Simeon, it is easy to fall in love with the Yamaha FJR1300. We already discovered as much in our previous S-T comparos, with the FJR victorious in 2004…
2008 Super Sport-Touring Comparo
…pitted the Yamaha FJR1300 against the then all-new BMW K1200GT. In that face-off, the Beemer was victorious by a slim margin over the Yamaha, which was the winner of our first-ever S-T Shootout back in 2004. We knew bringing back the Beemer and Yamaha, along the auto-shifting AE version of the FJR, was a…
Yamaha FJR Sets Continent Crossing Record
…of Alaska. 5,191 minutes later, Ryan was in Key West, Florida, having traversed the entire North American Continent, the long way, on his 2005 Yamaha FJR 1300, outfitted with Metzeler Z6 Interact sport-touring tires. And with those 5,191 minutes, or, if you prefer, 86 hours and 31 minutes, Ryan totally…
2005 Yamaha FJR1300 Comparison
Yamaha has built one stout sport-tourer in the FJR. It can keep up with a ZZR on a twisty road while providing nearly the comfort of the ST1300.Midway up the coast, our group pulled into Nepenthe, a spectacular hillside restaurant/souvenir shop overlooking the rugged coastline. A combination of fresh…
2008 Honda ST1300 Comparison
…smooth. Eck, how can we get this smooth taste out of our mouth?Well, don't talk about the transmission because it's, you guessed it, smooth! Like the FJR, the Honda transmission is just five speeds, but sixth gear isn't missed, with the ST's velvety gearbox accurate and, what's the word... "Reliable,"…
2006 Yamaha FJR1300 First Ride
…2004 Sport-Touring Shootout. Although the FJR wasn't the most powerful (Kawasaki ZZR1200) or the most luxurious (Honda ST1300), its hunger for speed combined with its far-ranging versatility made it our class favorite.Still, the "Supersport-Tourer," as Yamaha likes to describe it, was not without a few…
2005 Kawasaki ZZR1200 Comparison
…is Highway 101. Now back aboard the Yamaha, we had time to notice its nicely finished cockpit and handlebars, the most attractive in this group. Its bars are slightly forward compared to the Honda, which is either good or bad depending on your taste. While the FJR has a fairly supple seat, the rear portion…
2006 Super Sport Touring Faceoff
The Yamaha FJR1300 has been the class leader in the Super Sport-Touring segment, but The BMW K1200GT has emerged from the Motorrad garage as a new challenger to knock the latest FJR off its throne.Yamaha has owned the Super Sport Touring class since it coined the term when the FJR1300 was introduced…
2008 Triumph Tiger, Sprint ST & Daytona
…and shoot affair, with the Sprint's able motor and deft handling making us long for a potential faceoff with the 2008 Super Sport-Touring winning Yamaha FJR... The big upgrade to the 2008 Sprint is its new steel fuel tank. Oddly enough, the inability to attach a magnetic tank bag was one of our few gripes…
2008 Super Sport-Touring Comparo FMM
…MadsonMCUSA Managing EditorFMM: YamahaFor me it's the Yamaha regular FJR, without question. It's one of the cheapest bikes in our test, which is a huge factor in all my FMM pick. But even if money was no object, I think I'd still pick the Yamaha because I loved riding it the most.Bryan HarleyMCUSA Cruiser…
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