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RIDE THE REVOLUTION.

2018 Yamaha NIKEN Review on Total Motorcycle:

This large-displacement Leaning Multi-Wheeler (LMW) is powered by a liquid-cooled in-line 3-cylinder engine. This model is equipped with LMW technology to reduce the effects of changing ride environments and to deliver a high feeling of stability when cornering. It achieves excellent performance for spirited and sporty riding on various road surfaces and the capability to freely carve through the continuous corners of winding roads. The body design makes full use of the unprecedented front-end suspension mechanisms pairing 15-inch front wheels with dual-tube upside-down forks to visually accentuate the machine’s sporty performance and create a high-quality look and feel at the same time. New Yamaha NIKEN. Ride the Revolution.

• Length x Width x Height = 2,150 mm x 885 mm x 1,250 mm
• Engine type = Liquid-cooled 4-stroke, DOHC, 4-valve
• Cylinder arrangement = In-line 3-cylinder
• Fuel supply system = Fuel injection

New Yamaha NIKEN. Ride the Revolution


2018 Yamaha NIKEN – Totalmotorcycle.com USA Specifications/Technical Details
US MSRP Price: $ USD

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NOTE: THIS MODEL JUST LAUNCHED AS A PREVIEW TO ITS RELEASE. MORE INFORMATION TO COME NEXT MONTH, BUT THIS IS ALL I HAVE RIGHT NOW.


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With so many great new motorcycles this week I put up in the 2018 Motorcycle Model Guides to choose from. I did say to NorthernPete that this week would be the Honda X-ADV, but the new 2018 Yamaha NIKEN is just soooo..... odd to not put up.

Next week, Honda X-ADV or maybe the brand new Gold Wing... argh, tough decision!

Mike

The "fudge"? Burn it with fire. Fail.

OMG, what is THAT???!!


Kill it, quick, before it breeds!!!!

Uncool, because I wanna pay to replace 4 front fork seals rather than just 2... lol

I'd love to take one of these for a test ride, I'm interested to see how the handling feels compared to a two-wheel ride. Are there benefits to the dual tires in front on a leaning machine? I imagine it'd be harder to upset on uneven terrain, also, will it hold itself up when stopped? Yamaha isn't a bunch of idiots or a boutique builder, so they must expect to recoup what they've laid out to bring this to market.

I want to see the rest of the specs. Displacement? Tank size?

I'll say this -- it definitely isn't a clone of anything! So way to go Yamaha for something original. And this looks a damn site more edgy and aggressive than the other three-wheel machines on offer. It makes me think of a gorilla standing it's ground.

Oooorrrr...okay, maybe the Wheelies from Return to Oz, LoL.

Either way, this is Cool. I'd totally ride one.

I gave it a cool. Definitely unique. Is it a motorcycle? Maybe I would change my vote if I were to see the full specs. Weight, displacement, etc. It will be interesting to read the reviews of people riding these machines. It is weird so if they price it too high I am not sure many will sell.

Drag it out on to the street, beat it with a club, stone it with rocks and then burn it with fire until it is nothing more then a bad memory and a melted pool of metal and plastic.......afterwards hunt down the designers and engineers who thought this introducing this monstrosity of an unholy abortion was a good thing and do the same to them.

There are plenty of trikes models out there and few have much of a market share, even spotting a Can-Am Spyder is a rare event, maybe once or twice a month even during the height of bike season, and those machines are what you would call "traditional" in styling and tech. This unholy abortion of a trike answers a question that was never asked, "how can we make an already unpopular style even more ugly, complicated and unpopular then it needs to be?".

I get the feeling Yamaha's board and stock holders are going to be asking some very hard questions to the executives that signed off on this soon to fail and fade into obscurity horror show, questions like "HOW MUCH!!! money did you waste on this POS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?", and "What fudge were you thinking!?!?!?!?!" followed up with the statement "Please clean out your desk".

Hmmmm.......Horror show......could this thing by Yammie's Halloween trick instead of a treat?

ceemes wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:14 am Drag it out on too the street, beat it with a club, stone it with rock and then burn it with fire until it is nothing more then a bad memory and a melted pool of metal and plastic.......

What he said.

I truly want to be creative and original when talking about this POS..... but just about everything I want to say about this ride (and I use that term begrudgingly) has already been said. This takes three (3) wheeled devices to a new LOW. You need to come up with a lower rating than "fail" for this thing.