Overview
Today Yamaha motorcycles are known to be among the highest quality and most popular motorcycles built. Yamaha offers a wide range of (and some of the most popular) sportbikes, cruisers and off-road motorcycles on the market. (see Yamaha Motorcycle's history below).

When you are shopping for a Yamaha Motorcycle there are a few things you should keep in mind. Yamaha Motorcycle offer you a huge selection; there are around 600 Yamaha motorcycle dealers to support and service your bike and Yamaha Motorcycle parts are widely available throughout the USA.

The Yamaha Street bikes are dominated by Yamaha's Super Sport bikes and it was Yamaha motorcycles that revolutionized the category with the YZF-R1. Year after year Yamaha Motorcycles are among the top finishers in the AMA Supersport and Superstock Championships circuits.

Yamaha motorcycles also offer you over 13 offroad and motocross motorcycles to choose from. Many of the riders today learned how to ride on a Yamaha Motorcycle 50cc mini-bike.

In 1978 Yamaha Motorcycles introduced the XS650 Special, this was the first production Cruiser built by a Japanese manufacturer. Yamaha Motorcycles offers their cruisers under the "Star Motorcycles" brand name. An entry level cruiser can cost you less that $4,000 and the top of the line Star Motorcycle can go for as much as $17,599.