New Yamaha YZF-R3 is practical, easygoing and downright fun.

Yamaha’s new YZF-R3 was designed to fill the daunting gap between their popular YZF-R125 and headbanging YZF-R6. If our first ride on the launch in southern Spain is an accurate guide then they have another winner to go alongside the R125.

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