Why the Yamaha Niken Makes Sense - Motorcycle Review

I'm not really a fan of trikes or scooters but I like the Niken. It's closer to a motorcycle than those things imo. If it was so stable in the front that it doesn't lean then I wouldn't like it.

That intro though😂😂😂😂😂

Went on a ride with a guy who had one of these. I had my doubts, but by the end of the ride and seeing how it took corners, I was sold. Thing rode like it was on rails

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I felt like I just watched a Top Gear ep. I'm a bit shocked actually given this vid was three years ago. I'd totally have one by the way. Too many front wheel slides have made me a grandpa in corners. Give me an extra wheel and I'm likely to be a happy camper. Give me gyro's and robot extra stuff, maybe, but I'm not entirely sure I need it. Give me gyros and autodrive, and the bloody thing becomes a nifty get me places robot. Put a torquey electric motor in it, perhaps integrate into the wheels, well then, take me off road and let me sell my GSA 1250 (that I don't have).

2/5. Needs more wheels.

Thus it was ever with Yamaha... the GTS1000 with it's funny (but fabulous, I owned one) front end got a 1000cc 5 valve Genesis limited to 99hp, when the chassis could have taken much, much more

A slow motorcile ?

Beautiful area! The bike is ridiculous. I'd never had one

the cinematography ALONE is reason to watch these videos, and you nail everything i wanna know about the bike too? This channel is amazing.

why not put the wheels on the outside?

This might be interesting if they'd turn it into a weird looking naked bike with classic styling like it's some sorta dieselpunk monster from an alternate timeline.

Another great video! My first bike was the Piaggio MP3 500. I rode that thing across 5 states and back. Not a good idea, not that the machine didn’t make it. It did and then some. The seat and riding position isn’t made for touring. I would still have it today, but it cost more every year to maintain.This Yamaha I’ve seen at the dealers. It just looks ugly to me. Dual shocks? You have that much more maintenance to do, pay for.

I think it's stupid. I think it should have stayed a prototype.

It does everything everybody else was trying to do with trikes but completely uselessly

The dumbest motorcycle of all time. Would a risktaking, adventurous motorcycle wanabe want to ride a tricycle? Hell no!

i wonder if someone used to Nikens only could switch to a regular one ... without crashing

i actually plan to get it next year, it is actually my dream bike

Just brilliant 😊

Hate to agree with an, ahem, "competing motovlogger," who is usually wrong, but he nailed it in saying the Niken is a motorcycle made BY engineers FOR engineers.

Future classic that's for sure

I'm just imagining this bike saying "Ed...uuuard."

In my country you can park with a motorcycle for free but with a niken you have to pay because it has got three wheels! That’s a major drawback!

What a beautiful place to ride

It looks like if you let BIONICLE design a motorcycle and honestly I'm kinda here for it.

It looks like a robotic gorilla

Welp, 3 years on, I aint seen diggidy sheeyit of this.

I thought I was watching Rick Mercer for a second there

Honda sushi pls

XD in Germany you can drive it with the car license.
Maybe they aimed for this because spend like 4000$ on a motocycle license isnt common any more.

Love the Rick Mercer rant references 🍁

Great video! got myself a Kymco CV3 550cc because I simply don't have my motorcycle license yet, but I still yearn for tours. did my first 3k kms on it and absolutely hate it now! it made me forget to use so many motorcycle essentials, like shifting, the rear break with your foot or just.. motorcycling in general. that may all be because its "scooter" in its essence, yet there is something it has in common with the niken, and that's the fact that the front wheels are small, shaky, and invisible to the rider. while mine does lock in order to grand stability, I've found this feature to be unuseful. a sidestand is heaps easier and more reliable. riding this big rig feels like I'm riding in a game. the handlebar just swings, there's no resistance to it and the front Immediately responds to your input. at 160 km/h that bike makes you shit yourself, because the slightest movement makes your handlebars shake like crazy. you end up looking like a wet chihuahua on the highway. the only thing these bikes are, realistically good for, is for people that drive through oil and petrol regularly, cause god knows how bad I would've crashed if I had driven through that oil on the highway petrol station if I had a normal motorcycle. to each their own obviously, but if you're young and able... reconsider, cause there's a reason why the niken managed to drop in value when compared to the mt09

I don't know what percentage of your audience got the Les Mis reference, but I wanted to let you know that I appreciated it.

It’s been 3 years and I have yet to see one of these in the wild. Did they get a recall? Are they still out there? Whooooo has one?

it's too ugly I can't like it

The Niken is my dream bike. I'm a big fan of reverse trikes

how to get demonetized in 20 seconds or less XD

Imagine being the mechanic to change fork oil for this monster.

Best thing is I don't have exclusively pay to watch these excellent vidoes

i laughed so godamn hard at that thing ripping a wheelie

YOU EVER RID A YAMAHA FJR 1300 RAT......YOU PUSSY COULDN'T EVEN TAKE IT Passed 150mph, frui6

25 seconds in and I'm already ded I can never unsee that

thats the ugliest bike ive ever seen !!!

What a ridiculous sack of bolts and nuts.

Weirdest trike ever.

Superb review...

the niken's front looks like the transformers skating but the shorter ones like the twins