2019 FJR1300

[GPRIDER]

Everything I've seen so far show's more pics of a clear coat blue. Looks like the same ole Cobalt blue again. I like the cobalt. I own a 2012. But there has been a lot of blue lately.

GP

 

[mcatrophy]

...Something odd about the "action" photo of the blue bike on the bottom of the page. The grab bar and back mounting plate are also blue. The last few years these components were painted in a gloss black even on the matte 2018.

Not really odd. My 2018 in its gloss grey colour came with a black shiny rear rack and grab-rail (since changed for a silver top-case rack), just about visible in this picture.(Click on image for larger view)

 

[ThwartedEfforts]

fwiw the rack on the back of my 2018 matte silver bike is... silver.

 

[graler]

My point was that it was odd it didn't match the color scheme (gloss black on several years) - possibly indicating a change.

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Something odd about the "action" photo of the blue bike on the bottom of the page. The grab bar and back mounting plate are also blue. The last few years these components were painted in a gloss black even on the matte 2018.

Not really odd. My 2018 in its gloss grey colour came with a black shiny rear rack and grab-rail (since changed for a silver top-case rack), just about visible in this picture.
(Click on image for larger view)

 

[08FJR4ME]

Mid October and nothing on the USA FJR !

I don't get it.

Dave

 

[Ignacio]

Mid October and nothing on the USA FJR !
I don't get it.

Dave

The two times they didn't announce by this date.....they ended up releasing the Gen 2 and Gen 4.

Or that they were doing the 2005 a second time around.

 

[creg-ny-baa]

Wouldn't that be an interesting development.

 

[Uncle Hud]

FJR1400 ES?

 

[08FJR4ME]

FJR1400 ES?

That would be the only thing to make me trade up at this point. Why stop there? FJR1500 ES.

Oh, yeh!

Dave

 

[El Toro Joe]

They waited until mid December, to divulge the 16.

 

[creg-ny-baa]

So...if they go to Gen IV, who wants to gimme dibs on a low mile Gen III 6-speed?

 

[Canadian FJR]

Gen V - Cross Plane 1400

 

[kmanflyer]

FJR1400, Maybe, https://moto-station.com/moto-revue/nouveautes-moto/bientot-une-yamaha-fjr-1400/214792

It's French so translation hard to decipher.

 

[RossKean]

FJR1400, Maybe, https://moto-station.com/moto-revue/nouveautes-moto/bientot-une-yamaha-fjr-1400/214792
It's French so translation hard to decipher.

The date on that article is from just over ten years ago! (Aug 27, 2008)

 

[kmanflyer]

What's taking them so long! Just do it Yamaha!

 

[stealth1]

No 2019 Super Tenere either.

 

[SkooterG]

Perhaps they are discontinuing the FJR?

 

[BigOgre]

Replaced both with the Niken? They'd come out one wheel ahead in the long run.

 

[roger dodger]

Perhaps they are discontinuing the FJR?

Or perhaps they take a year off to burn off some NOS inventory and to gauge the 'strength of the market'.

 

[creg-ny-baa]

Perhaps they are discontinuing the FJR?

Or perhaps they take a year off to burn off some NOS inventory and to gauge the 'strength of the market'.

I don't think either of those are likely. The FJR, while not a huge seller, is kind of a prestige model. Given the modest investments they've made to keep it current, I suspect it's profitable enough to continue. And as not a monstrous seller (like the R1 and R6 probably were during the sportbike boom) I imagine they produce what they can sell. Dealers don't tend to overstock these "big girls."