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Yamaha YZF-R6, where are you?

Out of the silence comes... another teaser on the Yamaha Youtube channel!

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Mumble mumble... that's how they express it in the speech bubbles in comic strips. It means that we're thinking.... What about? About the important absence at the Cologne Show, Intermot 2016. Whose absence? Have you not worked it out yet? Is it, or is it not the most highly anticipated sports bike of all? We're talking about the Yamaha YZF-R6. It had been announced with video teasers and we, the press included, were all waiting for it but when the Yamaha men pulled off the covers... we were left semi-disappointed. As beautiful and interesting as the bikes on show are, where's the R6? Where have you hidden it? Where is it "parked"?

This is called marketing. Imagine if we have 10 beautiful women (or men!) and add one more. Another beauty but would you notice her? Mmm, perhaps not. In effect, among so many sports bike, like the Honda CBR 1000 RR, Suzuki GSX-R1000, Kawasaki ZX10-RR, Kawasaki H2 Carbon, Ducati 939 SuperSport... now we think about it, how would it stand up? It definitely wouldn't make a bad impression but perhaps Yamaha had second thoughts. The idea being that, if they wait a few days to present it, everything will have calmed down, and we, the fans, will no longer have our eyes full of cylinders and fairings, and then "pow", they can play their ace!
So perhaps Yamaha is going for this approach and, for this reason, has released a new teaser just as all the journalists are eating after a long day at the show. We sure noticed it though! 
The new date? 13-10-2016 at 10am CET. Make a note!

Translated by Heather Watson
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