2018 FJR release details?

[Birdman2010]

Burgundy is gorgeous.
So seriously, when will we know?

+1 on Burgundy!

 

[bruinFJRguy]

bruinFJRguy posted: Kenny Roberts design. You heard it hear first.

Well, we heard it in post #14 first. Of course, that's the first time we heard it this year.

 

[HotRodZilla]

GAWD...If someone mentions that butt-******-ugly Kenny Roberts, or Kenny Loggins paint scheme again, I'm gonna puke. Ooooooooooh, Yellow, black, and white, with blocks. BLOCKS! OMG!!! Jeebus guys, that **** is like 60 years old. Let it go.

Hahahahah...Mainly just kicking up ****, but I really do think it would be ugly on this bike.

 

[russperry]

GAWD...If someone mentions that butt-******-ugly Kenny Roberts, or Kenny Loggins paint scheme again, I'm gonna puke. Ooooooooooh, Yellow, black, and white, with blocks. BLOCKS! OMG!!! Jeebus guys, that **** is like 60 years old. Let it go.
Hahahahah...Mainly just kicking up ****, but I really do think it would be ugly on this bike.

I love those colors and paint scheme on a track bike, but on a FJR? Now this is what I'm talking about..........

 

[bruinFJRguy]

...they did it on the Tenere a couple years ago. Lol.

In all honesty, I was, myself, kicking up ****.

 

[Canadian FJR]

We have a beautiful Silver and also a Black for 2017 up here in the Great White North. I suspect we'll see Blue in 2018.

Canadian FJR

 

[Harald]

Spy photo of new 2018 FJR1300 now online!

Due to complaints about excess weight and soft paint, Yamaha has redesigned the FJR for 2018:

https://home.earthlink.net/~haraldstenger/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/yamahapic.jpg

 

[Uncle Hud]

HotRodZilla posted: GAWD...If someone mentions that butt-******-ugly Kenny Roberts, or Kenny Loggins paint scheme again, I'm gonna puke. Ooooooooooh, Yellow, black, and white, with blocks. BLOCKS! OMG!!! Jeebus guys, that **** is like 60 years old. Let it go.

See, HotRodZilla, that's why you're not an artist, art teacher, or a museum curator: YOU HAVE NO TASTE.

And who cares how old it is? If you're good, you're good. (At least that's what the 30-year-old women around here say to me ...)

 

[art miller]

Here's the color for 2018. Now everybody's happy.

That color scheme would be a hit in the Castro in San Francisco!!!

 

[HotRodZilla]

GAWD...If someone mentions that butt-******-ugly Kenny Roberts, or Kenny Loggins paint scheme again, I'm gonna puke. Ooooooooooh, Yellow, black, and white, with blocks. BLOCKS! OMG!!! Jeebus guys, that **** is like 60 years old. Let it go.Hahahahah...Mainly just kicking up ****, but I really do think it would be ugly on this bike.

I love those colors and paint scheme on a track bike, but on a FJR? Now this is what I'm talking about..........

[img=[URL="https://www.bhmpics.com/wallpapers/yellow_yamaha_yzf_r1_2016-960x600.jpg%5D"]https://www.bhmpics.com/wallpapers/yellow_yamaha_yzf_r1_2016-960x600.jpg][/URL]

Now, see Russ? On that bike, it's pretty cool. Not so much on an FJR I think. However, I've been wrong before!

 

[Canadian FJR]

"We have a beautiful Silver and also a Black for 2017 up here in the Great White North. I suspect we'll see Blue in 2018."

And the good looking kid from Nova Scotia guessed it .........................

https://www.yamaha-motor.ca/products/details-build-price.php?model=5007&group=MC&catId=1

Canadian FJR

 

[BigOgre]

Is that a matte blue? And as an only choice?

Edit two minutes later - Yes, yes it is. Guess we're getting the same down here. AND the choice of an ES or A again also.

https://www.yamahamotorsports.com/sport-touring

 

[hppants]

Well folks, everyone's got an opinion.

The 2018, in MY opinion, is by far the ugliest FJR I have ever seen.

Matte finish on a touring motorcycle. (sigh)

 

[RossKean]

Well folks, everyone's got an opinion.
The 2018, in MY opinion, is by far the ugliest FJR I have ever seen.

Matte finish on a touring motorcycle. (sigh)

Almost as bad as the gawd-awful pink they thought was a good idea in 2014...

For what its worth, the Canadian site describes the 2018 colour as "Matte Dark Purplish Metallic Blue", whatever that is.

 

[Ignacio]

And the good looking kid from Nova Scotia guessed it .........................
https://www.yamaha-motor.ca/products/details-build-price.php?model=5007&group=MC&catId=1

Canadian FJR

Thanks for the first official post I've seen. This speculation thread is retired and replaced with the new actual announcement thread.