Yamaha Saluto: All you need to know

Yamaha’s new Saluto is the company’s first serious foray into the commuter space in years. The Japanese company has a handful of slow selling 100cc and 125c commuters that have seen no attention from the market or upgrades from the maker in years apart from cosmetics. The Saluto claims Yamaha is amongst the lightest and cheapest motorcycles in the 125cc space. More importantly, it is all new. Here’s everything you need to know about this new Yamaha.

So it is all-new?

Yes, Yamaha says the Saluto is new from the ground up. That means new styling, new engine and new frame.

Why developed an all-new engine? Couldn’t they have Blue Core’d a Gladiator?

We love the Gladiator but that’s a really old platform. Yamaha has been updating engines with its suite of Continue Reading…