http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/Article_Page.aspx?ArticleID=3819&Page=1
drool and I’ve just bought a new bike as well - best looking bike ever - better than the new R6 I reckon
HARD as nails! 
Sounds like they are making it a little more track focused to suite the BSB/WSB teams requests, I wonder why they havent moved the exhausts down under like almost everybody else and how 6 piston calipers are a move forward when those that went that way [e.g. gsxr1000 & big Kwaks] went back to 4 piston calipers ?
I have to agree with pretty much everything you’ve said…
The old 6 pots on the Gixxers were said to lack feel.
Maybe there is better technology to make it work now.
I’m a Yamaha bloke, but this bike seems more like a stop gap than a new model…A lot of peeps on the R1 forum are citing the 08 model as the real deal…It would nicely coincide with 10 years of the R1 aswell…Who knows.
The nice thing about this model is that hopefully Yamaha have finally realised that midrange torque is a good thing on a street bike.
“The nice thing about this model is that hopefully Yamaha have finally realised that midrange torque is a good thing on a street bike.”
And as a Yamaha man you felt the need to stick the word hopefully in there . . . it does sound like they are adressing it or at least trying to, but I wonder if even the 08 will match the litre gsxr’s fantabulous stomp
If Kawasaki can do it in their latest ZX10, then Yam can do it too.
Suzuki do seem to be taking that no.2 spot in technology away from Yam though…I guess the cost of developing this years R6 has eaten into the R1s R&D budget.
I find it interesting that they call the new YCC-I system, ‘pioneering’. Clearly not, as MV Agusta had this variable inlet tract technology on their F4-1000 for a few years now, and quite probably it wasn’t new then either. Still, a good tech development.