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-fuckin-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 shit is like 60 years old. Let it go.

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

 

[russperry]

GAWD...If someone mentions that butt-fuckin-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 shit is like 60 years old. Let it go.
Hahahahah...Mainly just kicking up shit, 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 shit.

 

[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-fuckin-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 shit 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-fuckin-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 shit is like 60 years old. Let it go.Hahahahah...Mainly just kicking up shit, 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.