Yamaha's next street-fighter

[Fred]

All is well except for the exhaust and the headlight.

Give it a R90S style cafe fairing.

And do something about those ugly mufflers. A pair of round mufflers would look just fine on that bike.

 

[Wildcard]

awesome review!

 

[BioBear1]

Back in '91 or '92 a friend of mine had one of the original model types; either an '89 or '90 version if memory serves me right. One day when we were out riding, I had a Suzuki GS 1100 standard I had been driving a while at that time, he offerred to swap for a bit. After settling in for about 15 minutes or so, I decided to see what that thing could do and it was a hoot. When you kicked in the boost on that thing it would stand up and shoot down the road. It was a good thing I was policing back then .

All the reiviews of this new one I have read say this one is a total monster, or at least it will be when someone removes the limiter from the ecu. There is a great review in the Dec. '08 issue of Cycle World. Good stuff there.

Be well and enjoy.
Mike

 

[nimzotech]

1700 + CCs - Wow, bit overkill if you ask me.

From Yamaha Website:
Fuel Economy** Spec currently not available

I bet it's MPG is worse than my SUV's.

 

[BioBear1]

1700 + CCs - Wow, bit overkill if you ask me.

From Yamaha Website:
Fuel Economy** Spec currently not available

I bet it's MPG is worse than my SUV's.

The article I referrenced in Cycle World stated mpg as 23/31.

Enjoy the day,
Mike

 

[Hellgate]

I like the dancing girls. :thumbup: