The nineties were a crazy time for Japan’s big four, and the Yamaha R1 certainly left its mark on this decade. Follow us: Despite needing some cosmetic TLC and a carb overhaul, this 1999 MY YZF-R1 is ...

We doubt the future owner will actually use this thing as anything other than a garage queen, but who knows? This 1999 Yamaha YZF-R1 has allegedly spent its whole life as a display bike at a ...

The older you get, the faster time goes. It’s hard to believe that the Yamaha YZF-R1, the motorcycle that revolutionized the superbike category, is now a quarter-century old. The original R1, circa ...

Yamaha released the first YZF motorcycle in 1998 with the debut of the YZF-R1. Extremely fast for the time, the R1 set a new standard for mid-price-range sports bikes, and the word "superbike" soon ...

The Yamaha YZF-R1 is powered by a 998cc, in-line four, liquid cooled engine which makes 200PS power. The ECU is programmed with five different types of control systems, including traction control, ...