It was a red Lamborghini Countach, parked with its scissor doors open to let the sunlight in, what most probably sparked Alex's love for cars. Even though he was less than three years old when he saw ...

Both the YZF-R1M and YZF-R1 share the same newly-designed engine, featuring a 998cc liquid-cooled, 4-stroke, in-line four- cylinder, 4-valve system with a crossplane crankshaft. The high-end YZF-R1M ...

Not many performance motorcycles can stand up to Yamaha's YZF-R1 – especially when adrenaline and racing history are put to the mix. The YZF-R1 has MotoGP DNA with street-tuned manners and boasts a ...

In the beginning-familiar to most as 1998-Yamaha's cliche-shattering YZF-R1 changed everything. Then, after relatively major makeovers in 2000, '02 and '04, project leader Toyishi Nishida tossed most ...

Yamaha released the first YZF motorcycle in 1998 with the debut of the YZF-R1. Extremely fast for the time, the R1 set a new standard for mid-price-range sports bikes, and the word "superbike" soon ...

22 Nov 2025, 14:59 UTC · By: Silvian Secara // The R1’s original DNA remains virtually unchanged as far as performance goes, but its aesthetic became something else entirely ...

Like all the best ideas, it seems obvious after the event: Take your top supersport motorcycle, tweak it for next season's Superbike battle as you do every couple of years--then go a step further to ...