I happen to work at Mandalay bay in lasvegas and saw the new bikes, the rapter is now 700cc and fuel injected and the back half of the frame looks like boxed aluminum, the lower a-arms are gull winged a little bit, plastic is all white with silver and gray decals, the 450 has new plastic and thats about it, has the same graphics as the rapter I will get a closer lokk at it on monday.

 

Are you sure its Not Turbo too? when monday comes around i suppose we will all know for sure.

 

no its not turbo, not according to the yamaha rep that talked to me for ten minutes about the rapter, he didn't have time to get into the details of the 450

 

Well if that aint just a biatch. always gotta make sompin new dont they. sheesh. was the raptor a single or twin or 4 cylinder?

 

fuel injected sounds more like a trail bike now than a sport/race bike

 

single cylinder, and it look like a single throttle body

 

sneak some pics real quick and post it on here if u can

 

If you go to YAMAHA's web site it says there you can see the new 2006 on sunday night after 9pm.

 

That sounds like a pretty nice upgrade for the raptor. sincityduner, what else did you see, any changes in the rhino, grizz, or wolverine

 

i would love to believe you, but you cant even spell raptor right... u spelt it Rapter LOL!!