Supermotard For the Street?

SUPERMOTARD FOR THE STREET?

So, what do you think of this? That's the question Yamaha Motor Europe Is posing on the "design café" portion of its website, www.yme.com. Using styling cues from the YZF-R1 repli-racer and FZ1 super-standard, the computer-qenerated image ofaWR426~engine'cI supermotard:style'streetbike Is based oi~one of five design drawings posted on the site. The illustrations are accompanied by a questionnaire that asks, among other things, "Which is the ideal engine for a Supermotard?" and, "Can you Imagine Supermotard becoming popular in the future?" Yamahaai~o goes to great lengths to show It has been In this niche market from the outset, posting photographs of the late-Eighties two-stroke TDR25O and an earlier prototype that mated a big-bore 900cc L version of the XS650's parallel-Twin with a inodifled XT600 Ténéré frame Keen on the concept? Log on and let `em know1 -Matthew Miles