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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Nov 7, 2000
Pros: Looks, Engine, Tractability, Handling
Cons: Can go "earth-sky-earth-sky-ambulance" if your ego is bigger than your ability
Summary: ...and for most of the sport bike fraternity, it is. Enter the new Y2K Yamaha YZF R1 and exit the competition. As I mentioned elsewhere on these pages, the R1 was almost a foregone conclusion when looking for a replacement for my mighty FZR1000. Well, it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 16, 2007
Pros: Beautiful fairing design, Logical controls, Excellent handling, Extremely quick, Reliable.
Cons: Can get you in trouble VERY easily in more ways then one.
Summary: I am 18 yrs old and I bought a 2000 R1 in Yamaha Blue(its the fastest ^_^) used with 5400miles on it three months ago as my first bike. Do not buy this as a first bike. I say this for a few reasons = 1. Foremost for me is that this bike has a VERY ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 26, 2007
Pros: Good for twisties, handles great, high quality
Cons: Un-smooth power delivery at lower RPMs
Summary: Great all around street and track bike. I crashed the hell out it...damn near totaled it. After heavy repairs, the bike ran exactly the way it did before I wrecked it. This was definitely a testiment to Yamaha's quality mechanics and design. I am ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 19, 2007
Pros: 150 horses, light weight, track worthy, street legal, speed demon.
Cons: Only 79.7 ft. lbs. of torque, some 600cc bullets will beat you off the line.
Summary: Nine hundred ninety eight cubic centimeter, in-line four, four stoke, one hundred and fifty horse power, four carb., twenty valve, liquid cooled, six speed, chain driven monster. I am talking about the 2000 Yamaha YZF R1. This is a beast of a bike with ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 3, 2006
Pros: Sexy, powerful, fast, dependable
Cons: Too powerful for just about everybody, lazy turn in, unstable midcorner
Summary: As I said in my review of the R6, I feel particularly qualified to rate sport bikes. I have raced my R6's to 8 Formula USA Championship Cup Series Championships and been an an instructor at the world famous California Superbike School teaching on both ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 18, 2005
Pros: Bonkers fast, great brakes, superb suspension
Cons: You can die on it, easily.
Summary: Epinions has failed to add newer model years to the listing for reviews for the Yamaha YZF-R1 so I will go ahead and add my review to the 2000 R1 listings. So to be perfectly clear, my review is for a model year 2004 R1, which I purchased on ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 8, 2005
Pros: Effortlessly quick, looks great, reliable
Cons: Can't keep the fairing fasteners in the bike. They are continously falling out.
Summary: Have had this bike for 3 years now. Before it I drove a VMax. After selling the VMax and buying the R1, I was dissappointed at how the bike pulled. Make no mistake, the R1 was fast and quick, but never felt like it was pulling hard. I could of swore ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 13, 2003
Pros: Fastest thing I've ever ridden.
Cons: Fastest thing I've ever ridden.
Summary: I'm 29 years old and have been riding bikes on the road since I was 14. Over the years I've owned a lot of bikes: Honda CB 125, Yamaha Virago 750, Suzuki GSX 750, Honda Sabre 700, and a Honda Shadow 1100. After owning the Shadow for a year, I decided I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 27, 2002
Pros: Amazingly capable, sleek sexy handling, and ecstatical handling!
Cons: A little too capable ( pending experience) everyone wants to ride yours!
Summary: I have ridden several on and off road bikes, but Yamahas R series deserve their own catagory, great handling, looks, and dependability combine with Race proven performance are a nearly fatal adrenaline rush of a combination! The throttle ( though at ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 1, 2002
Pros: Handling, styling, suprisingly comfortable, MOTOR!!!!, everyone stares
Cons: suspension too soft, dialed in is Excellent, wind protection, clunk to 1st gear, vibration
Summary: Here is the real deal...I have owned over 30 motorcycles and presently own a 1994 FZR1000, a 1998 Honda CR500R, and a 2001 YZF-R1....if you already have a FZR1000 DO NOT get rid of it for an R1, but instead keep it ,if possible, because it will remind ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 23, 2002
Pros: '02: Absolutely Un-F^*&-ing believable!!!
Cons: Extremely hard to find (not anymore, yamaha delivered)
Summary: This review has been updated since I've now ridden this bike extensively for a season and have fully fallen in love with it. While the bike has some faults (although very few) having seen and ridden all the competition, I'm thouroughly convinced this ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 30, 2001
Pros: Beauty and brawn.
Cons: Everybody has one.
Summary: I recently had the opportunity to play around with a friends R1. And anyone that lets you ride THEIR bike has to be a friend. I own/ride a 2000 Suzuki TLS and base this opinion on riding it for the past year.
The R1 is a beautiful bike. I think ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 26, 2001
Pros: Gorgeous, lightning fast, faster still, loads of aftermarket goodies
Cons: light 5 valve p\cyl. head makes lots of noise, noisy + clunky,gearbox
Summary: I had always owned slow bikes before I bought my R1. I didnt know how I would handle the fierce power and light chassis. I was able to adapt to it all in about 3 seconds. It tracks like an arrow at every speed. When I took it home, I spent 3 hours on ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 24, 2001
Pros: Looks,Feel,Power,maneuverability/handling, resale, EVERYTHING! This thing rocks!
Cons: DANGER! DANGER! This bike is to fun to control yourself on.
Summary: I have been riding bikes my whole life, street bikes for about 4 years to date. I started with a 95 ZX-6, couldnt stand the lack of power, and traded it on a 95 ZX-9 two months later. The ZX-9 was a great bike to tune in my street riding on because it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2001
Pros: Huge Horsepower, Smooth Engine, Crazy Light
Cons: Notchie Transmission, No EFI, Front End Comes Up Too Easy :)
Summary: Let me get this disclaimer out. I recently had the privilege of riding a '99 R1, but it wasn't quite stock. It has a full M4 system and a jet kit. So it squeezed out 145 hp at the rear wheel. The owner even had dyno charts to prove it.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 7, 2001
Pros: Fast, precise, agile, this is the liter-bike to have
Cons: Twitchy, not as confidence inspiring for the intermediate rider - expert's bike
Summary: Sorry if the title sounds snobby - however I'd like to say immeidately that snobbiness is not my intention at all. In fact being the owner of the bike, I love to listen to other people's feedback -- truly this machine is of the most elite liter bikes in ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 26, 2001
Pros: sporty design, well built, sleek and fast, easy enough for novices to ride
Cons: pricey, a little wobble in the handlebars during changes in road types
Summary: While trying to get my wife in the mood for a new motorcycle I happened to notice a 2001 R1 sitting out in the parking lot. It was a 200 model, and it was still warm. I somehow forgot that my wife was there and walked over to the R1. She said ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 5, 2001
Pros: Unmatched riding sensation
Cons: You'll have to wait even longer for your friends to catch up!
Summary: I do not in fact own one, but I have ridden one. Cape Town on a quiet day, is a playground for some serious scraping.... My friend and I were lucky enough to ba able to scrape some serious metal on this delicious machine....
Early one Sunday ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 21, 2000
Pros: Looks, Handling and great low end torque
Cons: Will bite you if you don't respect it. Beginners beware
Summary: I purchased my 1999 R-1 (no section for review of 99's so I put it here)as a replacement for my 97 Gsx-r750. Previous other bikes I've owned were a 1990 Fzr-1000 and a 89 Ninja 750r. I wanted what was considered the ultimate liter bike, but I also bought ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 10, 2000
Pros: Superb package
Cons: Unreasonable ?
Summary: Why ?
Because I wanted a radical bike, owning already a VFR750, I was looking for the very best that modern technology could offer. Coming from the VFR750, I initially thought a V-Twin would give me the low end torque I thought I'd miss on a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 3, 2000
Pros: The best sport bike Yamaha ever built!
Cons: A very nice buy.
Summary: This sport bike isn't like any sport bike I ever ridden. Yamaha has outdone itself this time with the new and improved R1. There's hardly any thing the same on the bike. With a price of $10,299 this bike is the best.
Quality frame work and ... read more
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