Nearly four decades and more than 14k miles (23,000 km) have ticked past since this 1985 Yamaha V-Max 1200 left its factory crate, but it still looks as if it did so a few days ago! Recently ...

It’s one of the oddest bikes ever produced by Yamaha, and we mean that in a very good way. By all accounts, the Yamaha V-Max 1200 – otherwise known as the VMX12 – is an absolute beast of a ...

Few bikes have made as big an impact as Yamaha’s 1984 V-Max. Conceived as a US-only ‘hot rod’, it was powered by a boosted 1200cc V4 producing a mind-melting 145bhp, in an era when Kawasaki ...

1985 marked the arrival of the Yamaha V-MAX, combining Japanese innovation with American muscle in a legendary Harley-Davidson killer. With a liquid-cooled 1,197cc V-4 engine packing 135 horses ...