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Yamalube Motor Oil Video is Educational, British, and Brainwashing

Yamaha Motor Europe have just posted a new video up on Youtube about their Yamalube motor oil and why you should use it on your Yamaha products.  They are pretty damn convincing or very good at brainwashing! The video is pretty educational, explaining how motorcycle engines and car engines are very different, what a motorcycle engine really needs, and why Yamalube is very well suited for the job. Various graphs, charts, shots of scientists making oil, and the accented British narrator have further convinced me that I need to get Yamalube and perhaps even be adding it into my morning bowl of cereal.

Enter The Yamaha Super Sport Virtual Bike Show, Win Indy MotoGP Tickets

Yamaha has re-launched its popular Super Sport Virtual Bike Show for owners of all Yamaha sport bikes to showcase their creativity to all on Yamaha’s website. Entries may be submitted from now until Dec 31, 2014 by going to http://www.yamahamotorsports.com/sport/supersportvbs/show.aspx and all Yamaha sport bikes are eligible. Each month, a “Bike of the Month” will be selected out of all the entries submitted and the winners of this award will receive their choice of Yamaha apparel worth up to $100.

Yamaha Building New Factory in India

Yamaha has received approval from the government of India to build a new factory in Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Joining an existing factory near New Delhi, the new Chennai plant is expected to increase Yamaha‘s production capabilities in India to 2.8 million units a year by 2018. The new factory will be built on a 109-acre lot in Vallam Vadagal on the outskirts of Chennai.