2015 YAMAHA YZF-R1 AND YZF-R1M
FIRST RIDE
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BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY YAMAHA MOTOR
T
his is the bike we've been waiting for. It's the
bike we've been salivating over, dreaming of,
everyone hoping, praying it would go as good
as it looked.
Put simply, it does.
Sportbike riders around the world, rejoice, for
the R1 has returned!
It's a genuinely hard job to know where to begin
to describe this bike. Do I start with the engine
that revs with almost the same urgency as a 450cc
single-cylinder motocrosser? How about ultra light,
R6-size chassis? Or what about the sheer mind-
bending array of electronics that's previously only
been heard of on Vale and Jorge's Sunday bikes?
IT'S A BANGER!
