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, the ...

By all accounts, the Yamaha V-Max 1200 – otherwise known as the VMX12 – is an absolute beast of a motorcycle! The 2002 model pictured above comes with a puny 944 miles (1,519 km) on the ...

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 ...

Yamaha first launched the V-MAX in the USA in 1985. Not surprising considering Akira Araki’s love for American drag racing and muscle cars. Japan had to wait until 1990 to get its hands on it.