One of the famous Japanese motorcycle manufacturer, Yamaha Motor has confirmed some time ago that they would be producing a three-wheeled motorcycle called Leaning Multi-Wheeler (LMW) 2014.
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| Yamaha LMW 2014 prototype. (Picture from: http://www.mototriti.gr/) |
Yamaha also released some pictures of their latest motorcycle, although on those pictures the figure of Yamaha's three-wheeled motorcycle is still cryptic due to closed by camouflage stickers.
If you look at some of the photos that released by Yamaha, the new motorcycle uses the control system and wheel dimensions which are almost similar to the Piaggio MP3 which has been previously successful in Europe.
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| Yamaha LMW 2014 on the test sessions. (Picture from: http://tmcblog.com/) |
Yamaha says that their three-wheeled motorcycle concept was adopted from the Tesseract (Yamaha's four-wheeled motorcycle concept) which was introduced for the first time at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2007. There is no clarity about the engine types that will be used on the LMW 2014 but further Yamaha mentioned that they've set it up.
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| Yamaha LMW 2014 three-wheeled motorcycle concept was adopted from the Tesseract (Yamaha's four-wheeled motorcycle concept). (Picture from: http://www.mbike.com/) |
Yamaha also claims that the looks of their Leaning Multi-Wheeler 2014 is much more sporty as a result of a combination between comfort and speed is wrapped in a stylish design. By using three wheels is much better in driving stability and security, especially when cornering, where the riders can also tilt the body so that the front wheel also skewed.
The three-wheeled mechanisms with two wheels attached at the front and one wheel mounted on the rear, with the application of the two front wheels are not a problem when controlling for wheel position is not rigid, but the wheels could move follows the slope of motorcycle position.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Yamaha Motor, Hiroyuki Yanagi said that LMW will be offered for $ 1 million yen, or about Rp. 100 million and with the targets which aimed at a more sporty segment, not like the previous types of three-wheeled motorcycle are more to be used as the commuter vehicles. Most likely, the Yamaha LMW 2014 three-wheeled motorcycle will be showcased at the EICMA Show in Milan, which held on November, 2013. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | YAMAHA | AUTOEVOLUTION]
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