Model(s) covered: 2008 Yamaha YZF-R1
When I was invited to ride the 2007 R1 at Laguna Seca for last year’s intro I can honestly say I came away thoroughly impressed. It was very stable, had a great top-end rush and handled with the best of them. My only complaint was the lack of bottom end and dead spot down low. I never did get a chance to ride the re-designed Yamaha on the street however. Well this year I got my opportunity with 2 weeks of flogging on the unchanged 2008 version of the R1.
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