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

When Madonna said “I touch myself”, for many people that was the end of it. Of-course, what she actually meant was “I’d love to ride pillion on an R1 and, while that would be much better than sex, I’d ...

In 1997, we rode the then new Yamaha R1 at it’s launch and said it was the ‘most outrageous bike you’ll ever ride until the next century’. Fifteen years ago I had a poster of the 1998 R1 – red and ...