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Model(s) covered: 2006 Yamaha FJR 1300, 2006 BMW K 1200 GT
Yamaha has owned the Super Sport Touring class since it coined the term when the FJR1300 was introduced late in 2002. Some other sport-tourers were more nimble, but none had the FJR's winning combination of big-cube power and long-haul comfort that helped it win our 2004 Sport-Touring Shootout.
Time, however, marches on, and with it comes a new challenger from BMW. We knew the powerful and feature-laden K1200GT was a contender when we tested it during its introduction in Arizona earlier this year, so we set forth planning a comparison test.
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Model(s) covered: 2006 Yamaha FJR 1300
If you want to go sport-touring and need to go fast, we judged Yamaha's FJR1300 as the top dog in our 2004 Sport-Touring Shootout. Although the FJR wasn't the most powerful (Kawasaki ZZR1200) or the most luxurious (Honda ST1300), its hunger for speed combined with its far-ranging versatility made it our class favorite.
Still, the "Supersport-Tourer," as Yamaha likes to describe it, was not without a few quirks.
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Yamaha FJR1300 - a tourer for sports riders (Motoring.co.za)
Model(s) covered: 2006 Yamaha FJR 1300
The third edition of Yamaha's FJR1300 sports-tourer has a number of detail improvements, some important, some merely convenient. The result, however, is that one of the most competent distance-inhalers on the market just got better.
The 1298cc engine and five-speed transmission are unchanged, other than a slightly lower final-driver ratio for longer legs.
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