Test of the FZ8 and Fazer8, future Yamaha bestsellers

Number one in sales of motorcycles in France since 1996, Yamaha is launching this year a new model which should confirm its monopoly: the FZ8, and its streamlined version Fazer 8. The French bestseller Z750 is in the target… First MNC tests !

When the FZ8 comes to town

We must once again take our hat off to the manufacturers – almost all of them, especially the Japanese and Yamaha in this case – who have been providing us with obvious motorcycles for several years to handle. The remark, generously formulated during our tests, is however justified each time. !

This is again the case for this FZ8! The new Yamaha benefits in the first place from an ultra-flexible engine and a finely regulated injection: the mill resumes without flinching from idle and tows correctly from 3,000 rpm, which its ancestor FZ6 was incapable of..

The first reports of the gearbox are correctly staged and only the selection a bit rough – the "Yamaha Touch" ?! – tarnishes the idyllic picture of this grip. The 1000 small kilometers of our test model are perhaps not foreign to it: to check with the first buyers in a few months…

The movement between the lines – the Marseille police officers did not flinch, thank you to them – is made even easier by a neutral and easy to handle front end. The 800 sneaks around like any 600: its turning radius allows you to face the city and its pitfalls without any worries..

Mirrors are high, even more so on the Fazer. Thus, they do not in any way slow down the changes in traffic jams and offer a clear and unobstructed view of overtaken vehicles – they are rare to want to overtake in this case. …

Side suspensions, happiness is also at the rendezvous: bumps, hollows, plates of all kinds and other grooves are perfectly erased by the inverted 43 mm fork – stitched to the FZ1 but devoid of adjustments – and the rear shock absorber.

So much so that on speed bumps, the biker can play his lazy and stay seated in the saddle without having to push. At low speed – less than 30 km / h – the brakes also seem very biting: this feeling is undoubtedly accentuated by the relatively deep plunge of the fork..

The FZ8 – and its twin sister Fazer8 – would therefore be perfectly suited to the bike-work-sleep if it deigned to wear a lock worthy of the name – and not a simple disc lock….

Note also that to refine the fuel tank of its new FZ, Yamaha has reduced its capacity by one liter compared to that of the "Mille", or 17 liters in total for the "Eight-hundred". The FZ6, it carried 19.4 liters: it will be necessary to spend a little more often at the pump…

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