Every one of us knew this was going to happen. After weeks of leaked photos and videos of the bike, Yamaha’s latest offering in the highly competitive 200-300cc segment is here. Enter the Yamaha Fazer25. What’s new on the bike? What has changed since the previous FZ-25? Let’s dive in, to find out.
Yamaha initially launched the bike R15 in the year 2008, it turned out to be a spectacular motorcycle loved by most of the youngsters. They then updated the motorcycle in the year 2011, calling it the Yamaha R15 V2. It is a great motorcycle for a person who rides single and not for one who wants to carry a pillion rider for a long distance. Most of the potential customers wanted back the R15 with a single seat, so Yamaha decided to bring back the single seater R15 and named it the R15-S where S stands for standard (single seat).
It was in 2015 when Yamaha launched their totally updated YZF R1 and R1M, the rest of the world came to know about the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) being used in motorcycles to provide the required data for various systems. So here's an article to explain the advanced technology and usage of IMU's in motorcycles.
The madness and love for motorcycles can never end for anyone, so am I also a huge victim of the disease. And owning one of them is another pleasure. They say, owning a motorcycle is like having a girlfriend, easy to get but really hard to maintain. But frequent maintenance reduces the need to problems or breakups.
Yamaha shocked the India market after the launch of the FZ25, the motorcycle proved to be a slobber knocker for its price tag. The FZ25 will be loved by riders of any kind or size. The KTM Duke is a class leader simply because it is really quick and fun to ride at almost every RPM range. Both the motorcycles are priced under 1.5 lakhs Ex-showroom. Can the Yamaha FZ25 dethrone the current king of the 200cc segment the KTM Duke 200? Let's find out.
Yamaha has brought in their new baby in the market the FZ25, a machine that sounds dull on paper but performs and looks extremely thunderous in reality. But the twist in the story is that the FZ25 and the R15 both motorcycles offered from Yamaha are placed at the same price tag. So which one would you prefer? The new child in the market or the ruler of the market since 2008?
There is an old saying that says, don't trust anything unless you witness it, initially I wasn't very impressed with the Yamaha FZ25's looks that were shooting up on the Internet, but the whole impression changes when I saw the motorcycle in flesh. The eagerness started to grow more and more as the demand for the motorcycle started to increase in a flash, the people wanted to witness the motorcycle for its killer pricing and reliability simply because it is a Yamaha. So we at BikesIndia got our hands on the Yamaha FZ25 and here's how it surprised us.
With the recent launch of Yamaha FZ25 and the relaunch of Bajaj Pulsar NS200, the sub 250cc Power commuting and sports touring segment just got more options to choose from. We compare these two with the TVS Apache RTR 200 4V and make an overview of these bikes in terms of performance, equipment and reliability in the following article.
Coming to the two cylinder 300cc motorcycles we have the Benelli TNT300, Kawasaki Ninja 300 and the Yamaha R3. The Ninja 300 is one of the best looking motorcycles even when it is compared to many superbikes. But then the R3 came into the game offering stunning looks and cheaper service options. Let's see how the R3 performs against its rivals. Is it any better or not?
The beefy looking Yamaha FZ25 is placed right in between the YZF-R15 and the R3. The FZ25 comes bagged with loads of features over the outgoing FZ 2.0 and FZ-S models. The motorcycle is launched at an attractive price tag of INR 1,19,500 (Ex-showroom Delhi), let's find out other details of the newly launched FZ25.