Think of the Yamaha as being the scale of a 600, with the power shipping of a faster-charged a thousand, all reined in by the most sophisticated electronic rider aids of any present day road motorcycle and also you’d be some way there.
It’s now not the smooth, cuddly R1 of vintage, it’s an unashamedly aggressive, angry, fighty race-focussed superbike. It’s lost some of its low-cease grunt, but it’s been changed by means of a top stop punch so brutal it’s hard to hold directly to it in complete assault mode.
The R1 has a much in commonplace with its MotoGP racing cousin and has the same using function, face and engine position because the 2011 YZR-M1 MotoGP motorbike. It even has solid magnesium wheels as preferred.
It has traction and launch manipulate, ‘anti-lift’, a quickshifter, using modes… the electronics listing goes on, but the digital spotlight is Yamaha’s new Slide Control System (SCS), evolved in MotoGP and only suited for Rossi and Jorge’s bike in 2012. It’s so effective you could in reality keep a rear wheel go with the flow to the point it will snap lower back into line when you shut off and brake for the subsequent bend.
Within a few laps riding this Eastern Creek circuit the SCS offers you the confidence to square-off corners like a seasoned-racer with out fear of it launching you. The simplest factor is you’ll need to be careful jumping on a non-digital a thousand after driving the R1 and doing the equal – you’ll highside your self into oblivion.
Engine power, transport and digital control are all light years beforehand of the preceding R1, but so is the managing. Yamaha has reduced in size it into the scale of a supersports motorbike and if it didn’t have any stickers giving the sport away, you’d believe it become an R6.
As properly as being agile, there’s masses of front and rear experience and it turns smoothly on the brakes. Full lean stability is brilliant, however the bars can get a chunk flappy when the front goes mild over bumps at full throttle, so Michael Dunlop would possibly want a guidance damper outfitted for the TT later this year.
Yamaha hasn’t just moved the R1 story along, it has created a critical device for racers and serious trackday riders so one can rival the fine of its European rivals for the primary time. It’s rapid, handles beautifully and has race-prepared electronics (until you’re a BSB rider and also you’ll must take them all off).
And if the R1 wasn’t outstanding sufficient, there’s the special version £18,499 R1M. Semi-active electronic Ohlins offers it an extra layer of sophistication, grip, control, self belief over the usual R1 and it’s not anything short of race-bike-sensational round Eastern Creek.
Add to this extra performance the carbon candies, datalogger, the Yamaha Racing Experience and the sheer exclusivity of it and it’s one special gadget.
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