Yamaha niken vs piaggio mp3. Yamaha now heads into uncharted waters with. The ktm based brudeli above uses a similar front end to the new yamaha yamaha bought the licence to this design back in 2019 the niken set up thats scaled down and used on the tricity too is a fairly heavy and cumbersome setup that wears much of its bulk just around the headstock right where youd rather not be carrying an extra few kilograms. Outside of tire sizes this biggest deal here is yamahas use of radial tires vs piaggio still running bias ply tires.
Completely redesigned it impresses with its gt inspired look. You still have to put your boots on the ground at stop lights. The back tire for the piaggio uses a 14070 14 compared to yamahas choice of the 19055r17.
I think yamaha should at least. Front wheel size on the niken is 12070r15 compared to the mp3 500s 11070 13 so not too much of a variance between them up there. You would think that by now piaggio would be using radials like the rest of the world but i guess they have to keep the price down somehow.
Its lighter and sleeker than its maxi brothers mp3 350 and 500. We had a taste with piaggios mp3 scooter that used a clever parallelogram to articulate the front end so it can lean into the turns like a two wheeler. Le yamaha tricity 300 fier melange de niken et de xmax entre dans larene museau haut et regard acere face a lui le leader piaggio aligne ses trois mp3 e.