Yamaha FZR1000

The Yamaha FZR1000 is a sports motorcycle that Yamaha produced from 1987 to 1995. It was generally regarded as the finest production sports motorcycle of its time, and the 1989 FZR1000R put out over 140 horsepower; it was named bike of the year across the motorcycle press and Bike of the Decade by Cycle World. It developed the Genesis design concept begun with the FZ750, and its main advance was an aluminum perimeter frame marketed as Deltabox, the first use of such a frame on so large a production road machine. The 989 cc liquid-cooled engine had five valves per cylinder, and the 1989 redesign raised capacity to 1002 cc and added the EXUP servo-driven exhaust valve that Yamaha carried on the Thunderace and the YZF-R1. The bike was shown at the Cologne IFMA show in September 1986, and its 1000 cc engine kept it out of the 750 cc Superbike class, though private teams raced it in open class and it won the Castrol Six Hour and an Isle of Man TT Production class in 1987.