It's likely that every literbike will someday be appointed with traction control, but we figured Yamaha's YZF-R1 would be the last to get it. That's because the R1 already has outstanding traction ...

Perhaps too much bike for the street, Yamaha has produced a technologically cutting-edge track weapon that has set a new standard for superbikes on the market with the all-new 2015 YZF-R1. Throwing 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 ...

Both Aprilia’s RSV4 and the new YZF-R1 from Yamaha should already be on your short list of bikes to tear up the track or carve through the canyons. But settling on just one is where the critical ...

When Yamaha's "new" YZF-R1 was unveiled at last year's Milan show, everyone wondered how Yoshikazu Koike and his design team-still under the watchful eye of original R1 Design Chief Kunihiko ...