What Yamaha is this?

It isn't in the list of bikes on their website, but looks fairly
recent. It's blue, naked and has Ducati Monster-style criss-cross
tubing under the tank. I'd guesstimate that it's a 750 or thereabouts.

Just curious, as it zooms past my office window every day and sounds
rather fine...

 

A TRX 850?

http://www.bikez.com/pictures/yamaha/1999/86_0_1_2_trx 850_Image credits - Martyn Franklin.jpg

 

Aye. I was guessing that the OP was (horror) wrong about the age.

 

As has been said above, sounds like a TRX.

Half-faired (though the fairing could've been junked) lattice-framed
270degree (for that Ducati sound) parallel twin based on the TDM850
lump.

They did come in a deep metallic blue IIRC.

 

They did:
http://www.wemoto.com/wem/pic/f107.jpg

 

But mid-1990s _is_ fairly recent.

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That's the chappie! The one I see has lost the fairing altogether, but
that's it alright.
Cheers lads...

 

Positively avant-garde, if you've got a collection like mine.

 

Was it one of these wiv an aftermarket hump?

http://motorcycle-web.com/yamaha/fazer-1000_2004/Yamaha-fz1.jpg

 

There's now that one, the /FZ1/ and the /FZ1 Fazer/ which is the
updated version of the old Fazer 1000.

 

I can see you on one of these, by the way:

http://www.yamaha-motor.co.uk/products/scooters/50cc/giggle.jsp?view=explorer

 

Those strap lines are, err, well, I can't actually think of what they
are, but "FZ6 Fazer - because every biker is different" pretty much
sums it up!

 

By coincidence, I popped into Cambridge on the Tuono a couple of hours
ago, and there was a metallic blue TRX parked in one of the bike bays.

I have to say that they are rather pretty.

 

Hmm, that'd be safe, the local scrotes wouldn't be seen dead on one.

Saw a mob of them disrupting a 222 bus at the West Drayton station
tonight; about 20 or so, pre-teen in my inexperienced eye, started
clambering in and out of the centre doors, then started trying to open the
emergency door on the rear right side. One pulled open the engine cover
at the back, then returned 20 seconds later to pull at something on the
engine and shut it down. The driver eventually pulled away, but I didn't
see how as a U5 arrived after 14 minutes of my waiting in near-freezing
fog, so my attention was distracted from the riot. (Note to Countdown fans;
in all that time a U3 was displayed as being 9 minutes away, eventually
changing to 8 minutes just before the U5 came.)

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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Dr Ivan D. Reid belched forth and ejected the
following:

Neither would anyone else.

That's rough round there. The only place I ever used to lock my lorry
was when I was delivering to the London Unis round that area (Holloway
Road etc).

Rougher than a badger's arse.

 

Kinda my point... Tho' if they'd steal an RG250WD expecting a
disposable field bike, they've no bike-sense a'tall.

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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".