VOL. 52 ISSUE 8 FEBRUARY 24, 2015 P45
THE MOST
EAGERLY AWAITED
MACHINE OF 2015
HAS ARRIVED. IS
THE NEW R1 ALL
IT'S CRACKED
UP TO BE? WE
WENT TO SYDNEY
MOTORSPORT PARK
TO FIND OUT.
Everything about the 2015 YZF-R1 screams,
"We're Baaacckk!!" in an almost creepy, Shining
kind of way, like Yamaha was just waiting for its
time to strike. While the Euros have been heading
the electronics arms race over the last few years,
Yamaha has been quietly toiling away behind
closed doors and closed race teams, developing
what is by far the most technologically advanced
machine in the company's production bike history.
It's so advanced you can program the R1M from
your phone! Just typing that feels weird.
There's so, so much to get your head around
when you think about this machine. YZR-M1 DNA
is littered throughout the design. Everything works
Cycle News road
test editor Rennie
Scaysbrook
gives the new
Yamaha YZF-R1M
a ride at Sydney
Motorsports Park
(formerly Eastern
Creek).
