Yamaha VMax Motorcycles

Alas, Tommy Roderick, the Duke of Kevin, and the Yamaha VMAX have all left the building – and yet they’re all still around and all still capable of putting out a ton of hot air and tire smoke – all things less fashionable now than ten years ago though equally lovable. Let’s face it, we’re living in a more sanitized, more sensitive world (even as putting out a lot of hot air has reached pandemic levels). All the more reason to beat on into the past once again.

Yamaha unveiled a few new models yesterday afternoon in Irvine, California, and told us to stand by, there may be another new street model yet to come later this year. We were kind of expecting the XSR700 that Yamaha teased back in July, so maybe that will be the missing model?