2021 FJR1300 is out. We get one more year!!

[hppants]

Hard to believe I'm the first to report this, but here goes!

https://www.yamahamotorsports.com/sport-touring/models/fjr1300es

 

[RossKean]

Identical to 2020!

 

[Archer]

This is the best f'ing news of my life, today.  Hopefully tomorrow and all my other prays too! thanks hppants

 

[roger dodger]

Nice.   Still waiting for Yellow/Black paint scheme... 

 

[Ignacio]

Hard to believe I'm the first to report this, but here goes!

You get the pinned thread for the year.
Good news they're doing them another year.  Updated the profile list to choose when it comes out and will update the Compatibility Matrix later this week.

 

[Canadian FJR]

 

 

[Fontanaman]

Good news is the FJR lives on.  No A model = bummer.

 

[RossKean]

On the Canadian site as well.  In some years, Canada has had a different color available or the "A" model available when it wasn't in the US.  Not this year - same color and ES only (although the Canadian model will have the immobilizer).  As in the US, 2020 and 2021 appear to be identical in terms of the published specification.

 

[escapefjrtist]

Awesome news... same machine that we know and love lives for another year!

~G

 

[art miller]

Pleased Yamaha continues to make the FJR available in the U.S.  I was hoping they would do another red and I would have considered it for my final final. At 78 years old I will stay with my 2014ES with 50K miles and running like the day I bought it.   :bike:

 

[Steel_Gin]

Very happy to see it in production for another year and hope it continues for many many more.

Suggestion List for next year:

1) offer an A model

2) mix up the colors a bit.  Very confused how their marketing department can say, yeah lets run this gray out there again.

 

[Silverbullet]

Unfortunately I have had my quota of variations of Silver/Gray/Black FJR's. I have never had so many compliments on a bike as I have on my 2014 and since I really like it too, FJR #5 will continue to live in my garage. Hopefully they will use up all the Silver/Gray paint at some point and find the stash of Red again before the FJR's swan song.  

 

[fastpappy]

Very happy to see it in production for another year and hope it continues for many many more.

Suggestion List for next year:

1) offer an AE  model

2) mix up the colors a bit.  Very confused how their marketing department can say, yeah lets run this out there again.

Fixed it. 

 

[SkooterG]

Thank God. 

It not being that special edition model that Europe got this year just saved me a bunch of dead presidents.

Other than that.....*yawn*.  Same fugly color.

 

[John d]

I wonder if anyone could prove one way or the other that these 2021 models weren't made two years ago.

 

[Ignacio]

I wonder if anyone could prove one way or the other that these 2021 models weren't made two years ago.

Besides wondering what the point would be, you'd need to define "made".  A bike is made from many parts and each of those parts not be the same "year" as the bike is, made, assembled,  VIN'ed.  That said, there may be individual parts that have stamps or labels.   For example, Gen 1 bike mirrors when opened up behind the mirror, a label would show a month and year that was made a year or two berore the official bike year.

 

[mcatrophy]

I wonder if anyone could prove one way or the other that these 2021 models weren't made two years ago.

Many of the plastic parts have a date punched into the mould. An example is this picture of the inside of the front mudguard [fender] of my 2010 FJR. These will at least tell you when the plastic was moulded, though not when it was assembled. I don't know whether the VIN plate, if date coded (depends on the market), tells you when it was assembled, or when it leaves factory storage.

Original picture, then rotated and enhanced:

(Click on image for larger view)

 

I interpret this as follows (ignoring part number code):



This type of marking can be found on many of the plastic parts, though you would have to expose the normally hidden surface to find them (I took this picture while fitting a Fenda Extenda). I've seen others when I've had panels off.

 

[hppants]

My opinion is that either (a) leftover stock from 2020, in which nobody bought a bike (thanks COVID, Hurricanes, Locusts, and ______), and/or (b) Yammie way of saying that they are not going to put any more R&D into the FJR1300.  Not even a marketing study for color.  When they are gone, they are gone.  The Tracer 9 GT is going to be Yamaha's S/T bike.

 

[wfooshee]

If they were leftover '20s, they'd be VIN'd as 20's. I can't imagine what it would take for them to change the model year on already built inventory...