In 1968, someone coined thewo
Seventeenyears later, someone m
When the first in-line four
Unfort unately the fanfare
rolled off the assembly line and surrounding these bikes has
into the showrooms, the motor- frequently been out of proporcycling press
tion to the bikes it surrounded.
went helmet
For
over heels with
while many
of them proexcitement.
"The world's
duced eyefirst superbike"
balljerking
they enthused.
. amounts of
"The beginning
horsepower,
" removable downtubes for easiercradleframe has the handling
The race-bred, box-section wide
m intenan
a
ce.
of a whole new era.
And ever since, new super- often fell considerablyshort
bikes have been appeali ng
of the mark.
faster than you can say double
And those that did handle
overhead cams.
well enough, didn't always
move well enough.
Which brings us to the
incredible FZ750 from Y
amaha.
The first motorcycle that lives
up to the term "superbike" And
one which Cycle News called
"the next step forward:'
Our sentiments exactly.
Vamaha'sTheory
of Relativity.
At Yamaha,we've never subscribed to the
one-frame-fitsall school of .
engmeenng.
