2 0 2 0 YA M A H A Y Z F - R 1 M
R I D E R E V I E W
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Our month with the bike net-
ted a gas average of 23.12 mpg,
not great, but it's doubtful you're
spending the best part of $26K on
a razor-sharp weapon like the R1M
to be economical.
Being a liter bike, there's no way
you will get close to maxing out an
R1M on the street unless you're
willing to put a few of your remain-
ing years on the line in the Big
House. There's simply too much
performance on offer—the kind
of which was strictly reserved for
WorldSBK not so long ago. So,
to say the R1M is fast would be to
state the bleeding bloody obvious.
It's more about what you can do
with all that performance, which
doesn't necessarily have anything
to do with the motor.
OPTIONS, OPTIONS
The R1M can be as docile or potent
as you like, and you have five
different suspension settings you
can toggle between via the roll-
ing switch on the right handlebar.
Two manual modes (M-1 and M-2),
a base road mode (R-1), and two
track modes (T-1 and T-2) offer
an enormous array of suspension
possibilities—ride the R1M in either
the T-1 or T-2 modes, and the ride
becomes stiff, harsh and not at all
Add in leathers,
and this crouch isn't
so comfy for 6'1"
Rennie. You can
see here the racy
rider position the
ergonomics offer.
