Awesome Yamaha

The personal ride of Jeremy Tagand, the head mechanic at Deus Ex Machina Australia. Based on an ’84 Yamaha SR400, the bike has a custom stretch swingarm, Öhlins shocks, custom twin mufflers and a sweet chrome and gold finish.

Yamaha’s Silent Pianos are acoustic pianos with a silent mode, where it plays back high quality digital samples instead of hitting its strings. You can listen to it via headphones or wire it to monitors for an even bigger sound. More here.

Combines the thrills of off-road racing with rally car styling, improved handling and safety upgrades. You’ll need to start with a Yamaha YFZ450 ATV, then purchase the kit to do the conversion.

Check out the Porsche GT3RS and Mitsubishi Evo 9 versus a Yamaha R1 and WRF 450 in -25° Lapland, with speeds of 160 mph on ice on a replica of Le Castellet; winners tbd on 3/27. (Thanks Gile!)

If the MOEGI is thin and light, the XTW250 RYOKU is chunky and rugged. Designed for camping, it has an AC generator, a large rear carrier and an engine guard that also acts as a shovel.

The retro-styled compact THR5 and THR10 are perfect for intimate jams and practice sessions, with programmable amp profiles and operable on battery or AC. Out in Japan now, U.S. early 2012.

We love the retro styling of Yamaha’s compact MOEGI. The gas-powered bike weighs just 176 pounds, and can run 188 miles on a tank of fuel. Nonsensical Japanese promo video here.

A portable speaker system with a 4” cone woofer and a 1-3/8” tweeter. Has a dedicated dock for the iPhone and iPod Touch and a 3.5mm input jack. Can be plugged in or powered by 6 AA batteries.

Tiny two-wheelers pimped out to the next level, these scooters break boundaries with bodies and seats as wide as those found in choppers, huge tires, and loud designs and color schemes.

Yamaha’s YZ450F features a unique fuel-injection system for instant throttle feedback. Plus, its 449cc liquid-cooled 4-stroke DOHC engine is built to provide improved balance and handling.

The 2011 Yamaha Apex is the world’s first snowmobile with electric power steering, drastically improving driver stamina; test one out for 45 minutes at any of Yamaha’s Sno-Safaris.

Sporting Yamaha’s “neo-streamline” design, the 2010 Stratoliner Deluxe is a hard bag cruiser with 50/50 weight distribution, 1854 cc pushrod V-twin and a big, wind-shearing fairing.

The 2010 Yamaha VMAX only gets a price increase and an admittedly slick red paint job, but it’s tough ignoring the muscle bike’s brute power: a 1679cc V4 with fly-by-wire throttle.

Fiat and Yamaha may make strange bedfellows, but this FZ1 naked bike is named after Karl Abarth, who before selling his racecar company to Fiat in 1971 also raced motorbikes.

Yamaha’s 2009 YFZ450R motocross bike has improves heavily on rider comfort, with a better seat, more spacious chassis and an updated engine balancer that reduces vibrations.

Yamaha released a slew of bikes yesterday, but we’re most excited by the 2009 Yamaha R1: it uses a big bang engine, which gets an inline four’s power and a v-twin’s traction.