Model(s) covered: 2001 Yamaha FZ1
We search for an answer to the age old question: Is less ever really more?
Three years ago Yamaha produced the amazing R1 and rejoiced as it went straight to the top of the sport bike tree. Then some bright spark at Yamaha thought, "What would the R1 engine be like in a retro bike?" The answer is the 1000cc FZ1, a bike that's so barking mad it needs to be kept not in a garage, but in a padded kennel! Glenn Le Santo donned the leather straight jacket to test Yamaha's cure for suburban boredom.
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