Hi, Welcome to bike rider TV powered by Honda. This week we’ve been checking out Yamaha’s awesome new r1. This particular Yamaha R1 model is their new traction control system so it keeps that all in line. What difference does it make? Let’s see if you’re a bit like me and you’re a fan of the sounds that the other one puts out.
It’s quite unique in the motorcycling world yes we have created this one’s got genuine team Yamaha racing on GT. Why are pipes on it and it just sounds glorious? At the pointy end, we’ve got the high screen option unless you’re built like Jorge Lorenzo which is big. This makes it easy to get your head in the shed. In general, the Yamaha r1 fearing gives you better with protection than the average Superbike.
This just adds to it for general road use they use them for endurance racing that really is a nice. Addition to an r1 it’s new in the 2012 model probably the biggest and smallest. This little gray button that’s Yamaha’s traction control system you’ve got seven levels of traction control plus the off. You’ve also got three modes so you’ve got a B or normal or angry boring or normal.
The A mode is really quite aggressive the B mode is there to help with the traction control. To get you home if it’s wet or slippery or if you’re just fooling around. The normal mode is very much along the lines of what the crossplane engine used to be. Also for 2012, it’s got a new linkage on the back. So it’s a little bit less aggressive and its uptake making it a bit easier to tune. Given that rear tire a little bit less grief. Now hiding beneath it gunmetal gray paintwork as Yemen has a cross plane engine.
It doesn’t have abs whether you need that or not as one of those great debates in the Superbike world. Now weighing in at 260 lows ring it full of fuel because I’ve just weighed it to slow. The r-1 down you’ve got a pair of six-pot Sumitomo calipers. They give nice to feel the powerful fade-free and they’ve got a cool name Sooni Dalal. It was 180 horsepower slipper clutch all the bells and whistles. The r1 is definitely no slug if you’re wanting to be king of the dyno. It’s not a bike that put a little bit more at the back wheel. The Yamaha r1 does is give you a bike that’s competitive on the track or a track day. It’s probably one of the best road bikes of the Superbike class and if you want track pedigree.
They use them a lot at the item in and a certain pissed custodian by the name of Dan staffer coming out. He got around the tricks and New Zealand pretty well on his r1. Well big anomaly speaking here does it fear better than most your hands. Actually hide behind these little fins on fearing that your gloves a bit dryer as far as the seating arrangement goes.
It’s more comfortable than most they haven’t tried to make it super small for tiny little races. It’s more comfortable than the average in class the pulley ends a little bit cramped and you’ve got those cans heating. The underside of your seat as well but I haven’t actually tried the back seat of the r1. I’ve got no intention of doing so the finished quality on the r1 is really good it hasn’t changed a lot as far as aesthetics go. The fearing has been updated it’s got a few tricky bits LED lights. Some new fearing panels to help with the airflow when we got this on and we’re thinking or two met color.
How’s it going to photograph the consensus at the office. Is it looks the absolute boss and that met gunmetal grey so it doesn’t have quite as much electronic wizardry us on the other models. That’s reflected in the price it’s twenty-four thousand nine hundred ninety dollars plus on-road costs which puts it middle-of-the-pack. What it does is gives you flexibility in a sports bike or speed in a road bike your choice.
