Yamaha Niken

The Yamaha Niken is an 845 cc tilting three-wheeler motorcycle that Yamaha has built since 2018 and sold worldwide. It is the production version of the MWT-9 concept the company announced in 2015, and belongs to Yamaha's Leaning Multi Wheel range, which began with the 125 cc Tricity in 2014. Two front wheels lean together with the body, so it rides much like an ordinary motorcycle. The name is a coined word meaning two swords, after the movement of the front wheels like a sword master's two blades. It uses the water-cooled three-cylinder engine of the MT-09 and Tracer 900, with the front forks mounted outboard of the wheels to allow a lean angle of 45 degrees, and weighs about 263 kilograms, roughly 70 more than the MT-09. It was shown at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, launched at the 2017 show and released in Japan on 13 September 2018, where it counts as a specific large motorcycle.