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**pranay** · 02-23-2004, 12:43 AM

LOL....

a 100mph first gear!!

"the R1's first gear is ridiculously tall. I was flabbergasted when the CBR1000's speedometer read 90 mph in first gear; the R1 takes that and goes 7 mph higher! It's as tall as the second cog in many other bikes, and I continually found myself stomping on a non-responsive gear lever when coming to a stop, believing I still had another gear to go down. "

**rash_rp** · 02-23-2004, 06:35 AM

Ricci told me that these bikes have such a tall first gear to avoid / reduce unintentional wheelies....

**pranay** · 02-25-2004, 01:49 AM

imagine how much power these machines have- even though they have such a LOOONG first gear....the 2004 R1 still wheelies like craziee....!!

**rash_rp** · 02-25-2004, 12:00 PM

yup...it sure does...but thats intentional...

**whacky_brains** · 02-25-2004, 12:13 PM

with such a tall 1st gear,one could go riding all the day round in the city without bothering to switch gear

**rash_rp** · 02-25-2004, 12:22 PM

nope man....u'll need to switch to neutral in-between

**Ricci** · 02-28-2004, 12:20 PM

quote:Originally posted by rash_rp

Ricci told me that these bikes have such a tall first gear to avoid / reduce unintentional wheelies....

Not just that , but with so much torque thse bikes easily spin their tyres . Using taller gearing reduces the spinning ( still a lot of spins ) . That makes it easier to launch from standstill.

And one can always say : " But officer , I was only in 1st gear ! Honest !"

**Jai** · 03-08-2004, 12:08 PM

very sweet bike..very very classy...althou still prefer the cbr900 rr goin for the same price...
whatever said n done....screw the stats..
BUSA rules.....

**torque** · 04-17-2004, 03:37 AM

R1 is the best ever 1000cc class motorcycle, only if yamaha can provide us this bike with the same price as it is in USA ie 10499$. I wont mind spending this much money no this chick.........

**mainframe600** · 04-17-2004, 04:36 AM

there is a R! 2003 model here at my place.. what a sound of the bike!!! poor guy takes out the bike at 2 am in the night , rides it till 4 am .. man.. the bike kicks ass !!! i was riding with alone at carter road, mumbai... when i saw this R1.. we were parllel to each other...then the speedbreaker came, he had literally stop the bike there... then 1st gear 110 kmph ...WOW , he must have reached there 3-4 sec...awesome

**soulreaper_20** · 04-17-2004, 04:41 AM

awsome bike .. the console looks neat and very nice ... 20 valves ..5/cylinder . this is new .. tell me earlier it was 16 valves , 4/cylinder right ?

**Ken** · 04-17-2004, 04:04 PM

Mainframe, try and get some pics of that R1 if you can...

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2004 Yamaha R1 TESTED!!

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