Toooo much baby, tooooo much (Yamaha YZF-R1)

Member Name: hughro

Product:	Yamaha YZF-R1
Date:	18/02/01 (916 review reads)
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Advantages: lightness power flickability

Disadvantages: power suspension (early models)

Fantastic, overpowered, light, flickable and typically leading edge by Yamaha, the bike is just too much for the average road. Try as I might there's nowhere I can get the motor to rev out in top - except on the autobahn - and who digs that?

It's everything and more that the exup was first time round and like the exup just not enough fun on the road. Give me the fantastic R6 or R7 anyday with which you can go mad revving the things out everywhere you like - SCREEAAMINNGG round bends, and SCCREEECHIIING past slower riders on R1's!

Don't think I'm dissing either the R1 or their riders I'm not - I'm just saying there's more fun to be had from the smaller capacities, and from larger twins - where the power isn't so overwhelmingly huge.

The suspension also needs a bit of a sort out - soft and squishy, the long travel front suspension is horrible, and the early rear suspension units were complete pants.

And despite all this, I'd sooner ride the blissful wonderful R1 than any pile of kak from the big H.

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