VOL. 53 ISSUE 37 SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 P75
YAMAHA'S SPORT HERITAGE BRAND
SPAWNS A NEW, OLD SCHOOL OFFSPRING,
THE SUPER COOL SCR950
L I V I N G I N T H E P A S T
These days, motorcycle com-
panies want two things: to save
money and to create new bikes.
Normally that statement is a total
contradiction, but Yamaha (and
indeed BMW with its R nineT
Scrambler) has found a way of
doing just this by taking its 942cc
Bolt cruiser, giving it a custom
onceover and calling it the
SCR950 Scrambler.
Yamaha has precedence in
this field of taking new bikes and
making newer—or older, depend-
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J NELSON
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hat is old is new again.
That's the feeling you
get when you look at
Yamaha's SCR950. A bike de-
signed to be old from the get-go,
the SCR feels like something my
dad would have cruised the back
roads and trails of North Sydney
on, long before he decided to
complicate his life with a smaller,
crazier version of himself.
