The Yamaha YZF-R1 is a sport motorcycle that Yamaha introduced in 1998, built around a compact, high revving inline four engine and a chassis designed to concentrate mass tightly around the machine's center of gravity for sharper handling. Its combination of light weight and high power output set a new benchmark among production superbikes on its debut, and it has remained one of Yamaha's flagship sport motorcycles across successive generations since.
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1. Yamaha YZF-R1 - Wikipedia
1998-1999 (RN01)
Yamaha launched the YZF-R1 in 1998 after redesigning the Genesis engine to create a more compact engine by raising the gearbox input shaft and allowing the gearbox output shaft to be placed beneath it.
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The Yamaha YZF-R1, or simply R1, is a 998 cc (60.9 cu in) sports motorcycle of the YZF-R series made by Yamaha.
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