Topline: The upcoming three-wheeled sport touring bike gets a more touring-oriented variant with a bigger windshield, standard bags, and more. What’s New: The Niken GT is what Yamaha is calling an ...
Yamaha calls their weird new Niken tri-wheeler the world’s first three-wheel leaning motorcycle. Unveiled recently at the Tokyo Motor Show, the radical design did create quite a kerfuffle of ...
The Yamaha Niken is one of the most unconventional Yamaha motorcycles ever made, a three-wheeled sport tourer designed to corner like nothing else. It's powered by the same CP3 inline three-cylinder ...
The idea of a three-wheeled motorcycle brings to mind Harley-Davidson or Honda Goldwing trikes, with two wheels across the back and the standard single wheel up front. These take a unique skill to ...
The Niken is by far the most advanced, the most unique ‘motorcycle’ Yamaha has ever built. The cherry on top? It doesn’t sacrifice functionality in its quest for uniqueness Yamaha wowed us when it ...
Yamaha is about to unveil a high-performance, sports-oriented tilting 3-wheeler called the Niken, which appears to be a full production bike. This thing is going to be absolutely awesome to ride, with ...
Trikes are more stable, offer more storage, and can even be more comfortable than two-wheelers. But if budget matters, ...
The two front tires lean in unison. Yamaha says the radical front end of the NIKEN uses paired fork tubes for each front wheel and steering linkages to provide ideal steering geometry and natural ...
No one in the community of motorcycle enthusiasts was clamoring for anything with three wheels. And I know what you’re thinking: I ain’t riding no fargin’ tricycle. But Yamaha has a history of taking ...