Product Blog: Shopping For a First Bike?

While at Yamaha’s TT-R intro last week we had a conversation with one of the participants there about bikes that they’d gotten for Christmas as kids, and how much of an impression it had left on them.

During the course of the conversation, the other person mentioned that over the years, he’d gotten two bikes for Christmas…a PW50 when he was five, and an 85cc bike when he was ready to move up to the mini classes. When quizzed about what he’d gotten for gifts in the years between those two bikes, he thought hard for a minute, and then admitted that he couldn’t remember.

Are you in the hunt for a bike that will leave an impression this year? Especially for a new rider? We rounded up the features and specs on all the ’09 models that are well-suited for beginning riders, and you can check them out below.

2009 Features and Specs