Monday, October 21, 2013

Yamaha YZF-R1

The Bike
The Yamaha YZF-R1 was introduced in 1998 and has gone through multiple revisions as Yamaha’s open-class superbike. The current version is a 998cc titanium valved inline-4 with a cross plane crankshaft that gets 146.2 bhp and makes 72.6 lb.-ft. of torque to the rear wheel. The current R1 has a fly by wire throttle system, valve mapping which allows for mapping changes and a magnesium sub frame.

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