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Products

Video: RIVA Racing’s New Specially-Designed Air Filters for Yamahas

JD Brussels

January 6, 2023

RIVA Racing’s new Performance Air Filters for both naturally aspirated and supercharged Yamaha WaveRunners are in stock for most models! RIVA partnered with K&N to produce a high-performance, reusable air filter that fits right into ...

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Engine

Video: RIVA Racing Rolls Out 2 New Supercharger Impellers For ...

Kevin Shaw

April 12, 2022

Generating the levels of boost necessary to propel today’s race-level, hyper-competitive machines takes a degree of mechanical understanding and a level of precision that few speed shops can generate. Industry-leader RIVA Racing has proven its ...

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Engine

Gallery: Safe & Smart Steps for Proper Personal Watercraft Engine ...

Julian Ramirez

March 25, 2022

When you purchase a new personal watercraft, one of the first things you have to do is a proper engine break-in. Now there is speculation all over the internet and various forms at an engine ...

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Watercraft

Gallery: 2022 Yamaha FX Limited SVHO WaveRunner (Video)

Kevin Shaw

October 27, 2021

Yamaha Motor Corp. USA has a way of making moves in small, precise increments. Changes often don’t come as big overt swings, but rather, a series of gradual moves resulting – in time – in ...

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Features

Gallery: Introducing The 2022 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup (Video)

Kevin Shaw

August 17, 2021

To say that 2021 didn’t go according to plan would be an understatement. Logjams in international and domestic shipping; sudden winter ice storms freezing pipes at processing plants; and sweeping national shutdowns halting production delayed ...

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Meets

Gallery: Greenhulk Garage’s MudBug PWC Rally Recap (Video)

Greg Gaddis

July 16, 2021

I have been lucky enough to attend the MudBug PWC Rally since the very beginning, roughly 15 years ago. Even though the gathering has faced many changes through the years, MudBug never disappoints. I don’t ...

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Engine

Gallery: Unlocking the SVHO With a RIVA Stock File 8000 ...

Kevin Shaw

March 19, 2021

Like a high school guidance councilor, we at The Watercraft Journal are always interested in digging up that “hidden potential” in personal watercraft. Whether its tricks for improving handling and cornering, extending engine life, or ...

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Watercraft

Video: 2021 Sea-Doo RXP-X 300 vs. 2021 Yamaha GP1800R SVHO ...

Kevin Shaw

February 8, 2021

Let’s just begin with this: None of us guessed this one right. And frankly, there’s gonna be some seriously obnoxious gloating online. Nevertheless, it was an inevitability that once Yamaha released a redesigned and slightly ...

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Touring

Gallery: Snakebit on The Blind River in St. James Parish, ...

Kevin Shaw

January 22, 2021

Somehow the family and I managed to navigate 2020 relatively unscathed. Sure, the older kids’ school year was completely borked, leaving them with the longest summer vacation in the history of public education; but for ...

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Watercraft

Video: 2021 Yamaha GP1800R SVHO vs. 2020 Yamaha GP1800R SVHO ...

Kevin Shaw

January 20, 2021

It’s incredible what a few tweaks to an existing platform can make. In 2017, Yamaha introduced to the world the GP1800 – with the “R” designation coming out two years later in 2019. The change ...

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