Yamaha calls their weird new Niken tri-wheeler the world’s first three-wheel leaning motorcycle. Unveiled recently at the Tokyo Motor Show, the radical design did create quite a kerfuffle of ...

The idea of a three-wheeled motorcycle brings to mind Harley-Davidson or Honda Goldwing trikes, with two wheels across the back and the standard single wheel up front. These take a unique skill to ...

Yamaha’s three-wheeled Niken represents a magnificent engineering achievement, and a revolutionary step forward in the sport touring motorcycle market. Will anyone care — or care enough to spend ...

The Yamaha Niken is one of the most unconventional Yamaha motorcycles ever made, a three-wheeled sport tourer designed to corner like nothing else. It's powered by the same CP3 inline three-cylinder ...

Tijo is an engineer, mechanic, and an avid content creator with over 5 years of experience as an automotive journalist. His media and publishing journey began with CarHP and CarIndigo, and soon ...

Yamaha raised a lot of questions in the motorcycling world when it unveiled the Niken last year. The three-wheeled motorcycle offered something totally new in the sport touring world, and other than ...

Does the world need a three-wheeled motorcycle? Yamaha thinks it does, which is why we now have the $21,000 Yamaha Niken. This is not a trike, like those big Harley-Davidsons or Honda Gold Wings that ...

TJ started writing for TopSpeed in 2015, but has been writing on motorcycle and automotive topics since 2009 for outlets such as eHow, eHowNow, and MotorTrend subsidiaries. He is certified to work on ...

Yamaha’s three-wheeled Niken represents a magnificent engineering achievement, and a revolutionary step forward in the sport touring motorcycle market. Will anyone care — or care enough to spend ...