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The new R1 took engine technology from the M1 MotoGP bike with its crossplane crankshaft, making the 2009 R1 the first production sports bike to use a crossplane crankshaft. [11] Power delivery is the same as with a 90° V4 with a 180° crank (such as the Honda VFR800 , and similar to the 65° V4 in the Yamaha V-Max [ 12 ] ).
The first bike manufactured by Yamaha was actually a copy of the German DKW RT 125; it had an air-cooled, two-stroke, single cylinder 125 cc engine [1] YC-1 (1956) was the second bike manufactured by Yamaha; it was a 175 cc single cylinder two-stroke. [1] YD-1 (1957) Yamaha began production of its first 250 cc, two-stroke twin, the YD1. [1]
The Yamaha YZF-R15 is a single-cylinder sport bike made by Yamaha Motor Company in 2008. [1] In September 2011, the second iteration, called v2.0, was released in India, [2] and in April 2014 it was released in Indonesia. [3] In January 2017, the bike's third iteration, v3.0, was launched in Indonesia. [4]
The YZF1000R was a stop-gap bike from the FZR1000 to the YZF-R1 and produced from existing parts bins. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] [ permanent dead link ] The Thunderace five-valve four-cylinder engine was derived from the FZR1000, and the frame was adapted from the YZF750R. [ 5 ]
Yamaha was the first to build a production monoshock motocross bike (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross production bike (1977 in works bikes, 1981 in off-the-shelf bikes). Yamaha's first Motocross competition four-stroke bike, the YZ400F, won the 1998 USA outdoor national Championship with ...
The changes include some minor tweaks to the suspension like a different caster angle at the front (it is now 26°), and a shorter swingarm travel at the rear (it is now 110 mm down from 114 mm). The front half of the bike has reworked fairings and a new 5” full color TFT dash with smartphone connectivity.
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2002 was the first season that allowed 990 cc 4-strokes to be raced alongside 500 cc 2-strokes.In a change from their V-4 YZR500, Yamaha designed the YZR-M1 (for "Mission One") with an inline-4 engine because it was the format considered to have the best mutual balance with the frame. [2]