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itself up more under brakes? Dial
in some more braking support.
Need more support on accelera-
tion, guess what you need to do?
There's also a manual mode
that still works off the traditional
rebound and compression cir-
cuits, so if you're proper old
school, the Ohlins system still has
you covered.
I should mention before we go
into the test itself that we rode
at UMC with Bridgestone's new
R11 DOT race tire, rather than the
RS10s the bikes come out with as
standard. We will have a separate
review on the tire in the coming
weeks here at Cycle News.
ON TRACK
The opportunity to test the Ya-
maha YZF-R1 and YZF-R1M came
at the hugely underrated Utah Mo-
torsports Campus, a circuit that's
seen some seriously tumultuous
times of late as it tries to stay
afloat and provide a world-class
motorsports hub to the Utah state.
