Yamaha Worldcrosser at the Intermot Show in Cologne

Yamaha Worldcrosser is a concept motorcycle created by the three-tuning fork motorcycle manufacturer for the Intermot Show in Cologne, an important event which ended in Germany last weekend and which brought to the headlines a series of innovations for the motorcycle world. This two-wheeler, listen carefully, fans, will not be mass-produced, but was created, according to the manufacturer himself, only to enhance the spirit of Super Ténéré. An event prototype, essentially.

What is it about? The mechanics are the same as the latter, but the new Yamaha Worldcrosser, a touring bike aimed, even aesthetically, at off-road, is equipped with numerous special details. Like the Ohlins suspension system or the Akrapovic exhaust system. Or, again, the satellite navigation device with GPS integrated in the front instrument cockpit.

The mechanics, it was said, are the same as the Yamaha Super Ténéré: the new Worldcrosser is, that is, equipped with a 1.199 cubic centimeter parallel twin engine, with cardan transmission, liquid cooling, 114,1 Nm of torque and 110 horsepower. power. But the best-known of Yamaha's off-road motorcycles, Super Ténéré, is also equipped with other very important features, such as traction control with three different monitoring levels or the ABS device.

It is likely that the new Yamaha Worldcrosser will be used as a motorcycle school for the future evolution of off-road motorcycling, a sector that does not even displease the Japanese manufacturer. The philosophy is to merge the characteristics of off-road travel with the emotions of slightly sportier driving (and the details described above confirm this).