Akrapovic Super Sport Line Open Exhaust - Yamaha YZF 1000 R Thunderace

Advantages: Fast, furious, handles great, accelerates great, stops brilliantly, looks wicked. Cheap insurance
Disadvantages: Ugly end can. That's it.

...people on 750's, 'blades, R1's and Gixers (Not a 'pub boast' - I have video to back this up....) The R6 feels completely planted in the corners. It is supremely easy to get your knee down and the riding position screams for you to ride aggressively. I find the bike to be a bit uncomfortable after a few hours riding but it wasn't built to tour, it was built to race - can you say 15,500rpm redline? Admittedly it can chew tyres pretty quickly if you thrash it and the standard D207's are not that cheap but who said biking was easy on the pocket? The brakes are super, (stoppies are easy) and I'm told it wheeiles okay too although I'm still getting around to lOkayearning those..... The R6 looks great, (even better when you take the mirrors off!), it handles brilliantly and the acceleration is like being strapped to a missile! The only niggle I... Read review

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Advantages: Its light, it goes, it stops, it looks great and it scores an A+ in all these categories!!
Disadvantages: Its total race position, so if you want to do a lot of miles, you're gonna get wrist ache, and they dont like to go slow either!!

...My first encounter with the Yamaha was back in 2001, when i took one out for a test ride from our local shop. It was V registered, red and awesomely fast. Unfortunately it was also £6000, so i was totally outpriced and went off home with my tail between my legs and a persistant niggle in the back of my brain telling me to sell those kidneys and get that bike! I bought a cheap 1984 GPz900r and ran it till it died then went on to a 1996 ZX9R. it was lovely, incredibly fast but very heavy and difficult for me to move around. The R6 never left my system and found the hankering was getting too much to bear so after re MOT-ing my zx9r having only done 250 miles on it since the previous one i decided that now was definitely the time for change. Off i went down the bike shop, and there it was. The most fantastic blue (thats the most important... Read review

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Advantages: Quick, Fast, exciting to ride and stylish.. as well as Japanese and reliable!
Disadvantages: Twitchy front end on earlier models, needs stearing damper.

...I own a 1999 Yamaha YZF-R1 (1000cc) in V&M custom race colours (Red/Yellow flames and sponsors). I bought the bike just short of two years ago for approx £4,000 from a dealer. The bike had only done 4,500 dry miles (genuine as a good friend knows the previous owner) and the bike was/is in mint condition. It had been pampered, the previous owner is pretty well off and used this custom painted R1 as a show off machine more than anything, so straight away I knew I was on to a good deal as a lot of R1's have been thrashed and trashed since they are such a nutters tool! This model of R1 is not fuel injected but carbs, however my father does have the 06 fuel injected model and after a week or so standing in the garage and even after cold weather both bikes start first time, no hassle be it carbs or fuel injection! The insurance can... Read review

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