Any rumor on the 2016...?

[HotRodZilla]

That dark blue us bad ***. My truck is "Wedgewood Blue" and I really like it. Hell, there's tons of cool colors.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

That dark blue us bad ***. My truck is "Wedgewood Blue" and I really like it. Hell, there's tons of cool colors.

Truck? What truck? I thought you drove a Ford!

I agree with you though, there are lots of really interesting colors that could make the FJR more interesting and probably even affect the number of sales. And I also agree on the color of your truck, the pics I have seen make it look really good.

 

[hppants]

My friends, George Santayana was a genius, a true legend before his time.

It's going to be neutral. Silver, grey, black, charcoal, bronze, tan, light blue, or something close therein. For the yamahammer peeps with pocket protectors, it's a big dart board and the standard deviation bell is very wide. The rider that can afford a $17,000.00 motorcycle made for riding cross country won't buy it if it's pink. Or lime green. Or Purple Rain. Or....

They tried to get out of the box in '14 - and oh my sweet baby Jesus did they hit a home run there. But it's one and done and unfortunately, people will have to retire before the tide of life changes on this issue.

I hope I'm wrong - really I do. It won't be the first time, certainly not the last. But my money's on neutral - silver/grey......

 

[El Toro Joe]

Dark blue was done only 4 years ago. Seems like Blue is the color they use on the last year of each generation. The 2005 was blue, and so was 2012.
Though, blue IS nice.

The 2012 (last GenII) color is the same blue as the 2006 (which was the first GenII)

 

[wfooshee]

These are much older prototypes from the Yammy paint shop. We can always hope they show up in dealers soon, maybe the 2016 is it!!!!

 

[fjRaven]

FWIW, the results of the poll on my site for the next color were 16 for blue, 14 black and 11 white.

 

[08FJR4ME]

**** we have hit page 5! THIS THREAD WILL NOW EXPLODE!!!!!

LOL, if it goes to 6 pages maybe Bust will explode with superlatives.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

**** we have hit page 5! THIS THREAD WILL NOW EXPLODE!!!!!

LOL, if it goes to 6 pages maybe Bust will explode with superlatives.

Someone will have to explain to our friend exactly what a "superlative" is. (I had a dictionary moment myself!)

Bust will probably get superlative and laxative confused and determine that this entire thread is just bull-****. And I am starting to agree with him.

 

[Fred W]

I think it was a typo. He meant to say, "Bust will explode with super laxatives."

 

[Uncle Hud]

If the 2016 comes in Tripper Mike yellow and has self-canceling turn signals, I may trade in the 2015.

 

[RC65]

Went to a local demo ride yesterday and today to try out the FJR, so had two 15-minute rides on it. It was the very un-orangish graphite of 2015, but was pleased to finally get some seat time on one. Still absorbing and contemplating the experience -- the pluses and minuses compared to my current ride -- but it was a treat to ride, no doubt about it. I've got some thinking to do...

 

[rushes]

When you rode it you didn't think about it's color I'm guessing.

 

[puppychow]

Never-ending indeed. Pointless? Perhaps unless Mama Yamma is subscribed. Why don't we throw a poll up at the front with all the colors Top_Speed seems to be photo-shopping?

As for me, I am too cheap to buy a 2016.

 

[bgross]

My interest in the color of the next model is always related to my motorcycle-buying calendar: next year's might be mine... In about ten years.

 

[puppychow]

My interest in the color of the next model is always related to my motorcycle-buying calendar: next year's might be mine... In about ten years.

Very true..

 

[RC65]

Never-ending indeed. Pointless? Perhaps unless Mama Yamma is subscribed. Why don't we throw a poll up at the front with all the colors Top_Speed seems to be photo-shopping?

If folks would really like to have such a poll included, let me know and I'll revise my first/original post (if I still can) and add a poll. Might actually justify the existence of this thread.

Or we can let this thread die the glorious, public death that some posters believe it richly deserves.

Whichever.

 

[Warpdrv]

Ha - I think it becomes a form of entertainment every year...

When we are done playing with it - it'll go away LOL

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Ha - I think it becomes a form of entertainment every year...
When we are done playing with it - it'll go away LOL

Absolutely true. One huge advantage to it already being in NEPRT is that it is no longer vulnerable to a Rule 10 topic split. We can act almost as childish as we want and probably get away with it.

FWIW, this topic is Important. I waited last year hoping, hoping, hoping for a decent color for 2015. I loved the '14 Red but felt that was not "My" color. As soon as I saw the '15 Liquid Graphite I was on the phone with Friendly Yamaha and my favorite salesman. So yes, color is important to some of us.

But that does not stop us from making fun of the entire situation or anything else that strikes us as amusing once it hits NEPRT.

Now where is my friend Bust? He should be along shortly to say something profound and witty so I can argue with him.

 

[08FJR4ME]

Pending Poll,

My choice is black, with white stripes.

Dave

 

[RC65]

Perhaps the saddest part of this thread is not the good-natured ridicule to which I'm being subject and enjoying on some weird masochistic level, but that I'm not getting any post count credit for my contributions to my own flagellation. By now, I should be up to 15 or 20 lashes -- er, posts -- but it's just stuck at five.

The masochist in me says I deserve it, but...

Okay, enough S&M references...I'm making us all uncomfortable.