Yamaha FJ1200

The Yamaha FJ1200 is a four cylinder sport touring motorcycle that Yamaha built in the 1980s and 1990s as the successor to the FJ1100, which was sold for the 1984 and 1985 model years. The FJ1100 was styled by GK Dynamics and aimed to keep the sporting character of a fast road bike while adding a more upright seat and a large fairing for long-distance comfort. For 1986 Yamaha enlarged the engine slightly, improved the suspension and raised peak output to 130 bhp from the 125 bhp of the earlier machine, with more low and mid-range torque. The FJ1200 came in three main versions, known by their codes 1TX, 3CV and 3XW, and from 1991 an ABS equipped FJ1200A was offered until Yamaha stopped selling the model in the United Kingdom in 1996. It left the United States market in 1993. Its air-cooled engine has sixteen valves worked by chain-driven double overhead camshafts, a five-speed gearbox, chain final drive and a perimeter frame of mild steel box section, and it competed with the BMW K100RS, the Suzuki 1100 Katana and the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10.