The yamaha r3 had the bike for about three months now. I thought I’d do a proper review of the bike from an owner’s perspective kind of from. First-time riders perspective to also kind of wanted to do a review of Yamaha supersport YZF R3 bike. What I thought of the bike what a beginner might think of the bike. What beginners might think of motorcycles in general so I’ll talk a little bit about my background. As far as before I got into motorcycling I used to be a really big car guy.
I had a 2003 350z it was the model with the Brembo brakes really fun car. I didn’t take her off to it front space and all that fun stuff. I had a really fun time with it so I had to sell that though. I was in college at the time could really afford it kind of made a mistake with that. I had to do something I was like to get back into the game I got to get back into owning something fun and motorcycles. Were always there but I had the 350 motorcycles and I’ll never forget my first experience with the liter of life not riding it. Mind you I was too much asleep by a leader bike in my 350.
It was from a stoplight and I looked over at all the motorcycle. He didn’t even know I was going I was flat out in the 350 it looked like I wasn’t even moving from that moment on. I was like wow this is are really cool everything about the disaster so what are some of the things that pop out to you. Immediately whenever you first get on a bike you definitely are not prepared to come from a car background you’re not prepared for how immediate a motorcycle is.
The baby 250s even the little guys because in a car you can be riding around and I used to do this in the 350 a lot. You just kind of like poke the throttle a little bit and you kind of feel the torch how good the car feels like. You’re feeling good you’re kind of riding around on a motorcycle. Everything has to be deliberate and very smooth all of your inputs all of your controls. They got to be smooth as butter or else you’ll fucking kill yourself or drop the bike or bows. I don’t know who gives a shit right just such a tactile machine. Everything about it it’s so instant and that was a big change from cars. The car as connected as a car can feel I’ve driven three 50s.
Miata as I hear like Lotus Elise obviously like the lightest one of the lightest more capable cars that you feel really connected to. It just doesn’t even compare with the motorcycle so you kind of has to readjust your brain. You literally have the engine or right under you and you gotta just like rewire your brain. How dangerous of an activity you’re doing is and trust me when you first start out.
It feels fast as hell even the 250 in the parking lot I would just like rip on the throttle. I was like oh my god this is a 250 what the fuck pretty quick obviously. As time goes on you write on the street doesn’t really feel that fast anymore. At first it’ll really shock you if you kind of pin the throttles. I am moving on this little guy all motorcycles really they all feel so good and so connected.
It makes quite a bit of a difference when you’re talking about these smaller bikes. It makes a big difference because of the relative jumps in power from a 250 to 390. It’s almost literally double the horsepower I think of 250 puts out like 24 25 horsepower. I’ll correct myself from wrong and then you will definitely feel that push on the difference in torque and power. All those bikes are suitable for a beginner.
A 250 300 class motorcycle you really have to try pretty hard. I’ve done some stupid mistakes on this bike. Everything’s been kosher have not done anything irreparably to destroy it. You got to really try to fuck up back to the r3. I feel like okay then this it may sound kind of contradictory because I own the bike. If your goal is to go from a 300 to a 600 class bike because you want the Super’s for you to have an r6 or 675 or an 899 or 2/6 3/6.
Explore that avenue of your life and I totally get that cause the r3 might not be the best option. If you’re just looking for a pump and dump kind of bike you’re not really looking for something that’s gonna last you. The r3 really less choice it’s kind of overpriced for its segment. You can pick up not over the price but rather if you’re comparing the 300 you can’t really pick one up on the used market.
I wouldn’t buy one personally that’s my opinion and there’s a reason why I bought a new bike. I’ll get to that but if you just go to shift here your goal is to just go to 600 after owning a 300 for like six months a riding season. If r3 is not really a good option you’re much better off buying on a CBR 300 that was saying a CV 300 ft. No talk about the naked Honda with the 309 inch of 300 any just spoodle starter bike.
Just to tick around on it for a little bit and then feel like you got on you. Go to 600 if that’s really what you want to do right personally. I didn’t feel like going that route I thought it would be much more cogent for me to buy a nice new bike. I wanted a brand new bike that’s my personal preference it made more sense because I didn’t want some life out of the bike. I’ve always been the type of guy and this really comes down to personal rider preference and maybe if you come from a car background you will understand this too.
I have always liked squeezing out little engines then not really using a big one. I don’t know why it’s just always been more fun to me not to say that squeezing a big engine isn’t fun either. I’ve driven my buddy’s Mustang his 2013 is 5 oh this is really fun car lots of torque. The 350 honestly was a really fast car I’m like fourteen wasn’t a rocket ship by any means it was a Torquay car. It’s always been more fun for me to take something like that and just expand and explore what it can do.
It feels like you’re doing something with it and I felt like the r3 was a good balance. It’s definitely a bike where you can pick it up and dump it later and get a 600 class bike. You can keep it for a while and see what it can do there’s no shame in owning it for a while. Explore what the bike can do having the fun of it as fas as the actual bike itself it’s fun I mean it’s my first motorcycle I really have no complaints about it.
Everything I want a motorcycle to do it doesn’t really get it scoots through traffic. Alright if you look on me it’s really good I always keep it on the average fuel economy. I’m seeing them getting about 86 or so right now 84 the only gripe I have. I live in Texas and people drive a little bit faster in the highways you’re a little bit crazier. To be honest the bike feels a little lethargic from the 80 to 100 range because you’re literally in sixth gear.
Just rubbing the piss out of it want it to go somewhere so it’s not happiest in that range by far. It’s not that’s the only gripe I have with it I wish it had a little more top-end pull for the reason a little more torque. I feel like if I could have bought like used RC 390 I probably would have done that. I was buying my bike there weren’t even any available in my area I think there were a couple that was brand new but they were a grand more than the r3.
I was like only see the point in doing that it’s a very forgiving bike. I don’t know if all 300 Klotz bikes or like this was very forgiving. It doesn’t come with ABS which I have had to break a couple of times pretty hard and not really run to any issues. This is fun let’s go 5 miles an hour it’s got a very relaxed position it’s not a very committed motorcycle. It’s not a very steep angle motorcycle you can not really layout. In short, it’s a really friendly little bike it’s a friendly little starter bike that you can just tool around on. Really great time with does I regret getting it no I don’t regret getting it at all though it could have gotten a slightly better deal on it. It’s from a new rider’s perspective so take it for what you will if you’re committed to understanding motorcycles and understanding how to ride them.
The r3 is a great tool for it I think it gives you enough power to have fun with it. Unless you truly feel that a 300 class bike isn’t really an option for you because you want a real bike if you really feel like you want to get a bigger machine. You just don’t want to get bored too easily which I hate that thing. I really feel like those guys aren’t really riding their bikes to be on it. I feel like they learned how to go in a straight line shift and they’re like all onboard.
Now it has the same guys that can’t downshift for a corner it’s the same guys that don’t really understand body position. I’ve not really taken the time to learn how to ride if you’re like me and you want a more tame bike and sports bike is going to feel you’re really getting into. I would recommend 305 spots you have the other camp which says I’ll get a 650 in it before it’s not enough. I have a ton of fun with my bike I don’t really know what you’re doing with yours that you’re having so a little fun with it. I recommend the r3 for beginner fuck yet it’s a really really fun bike.
