'06 To Be Four Inches Less In Overall Height?

[RoadSurfer]

According to Yamaha's web site page that compares the 05 with the 06 specs (www.yamaha-motor.com/spor...mpare.aspx), the 06 model will be a whopping four inches lower in overall height than the 05 model!

2006 = 52.4" 2005 = 56.5"

That has got to be a typo, don't you think? Ground clearance is to be reduced by only a tenth of an inch and they've been increasing the height of the windshield rather than decreasing it.

Otherwise, surely any such reduction in height would require significant alteration to frame structure, wouldn't it? Or could it be that the widnshield layout has been altered so that at its lowest position it will be four inches closer to the ground?

- Dave

 

[slapnpop]

belive the windshield will got to a "lower" position than the current one, and that's the highest part of the bike.

 

[Mighty Joe]

I agree.....it must be in the new more improved adjustable windshield... Whatever!

 

[roadrash]

I was told the European model comes with an Expresso machine.

:huh:

 

[radman]

Frog version comes with a remotely actuated white flag and an "I Surrender" backlit amber tail lamp