2024-05-05 10:20:18
By John Fernandez | Photo: Young-Machine
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The goodbye to the Yamaha R1 is a confirmed fact. The tuning fork brand will remove the approved street model from its catalog at the end of 2024 on the occasion of the Euro 5+ anti-pollution regulations. The Japanese will not update itand therefore, it will disappear from its catalog, at least in Europe and Japan.
The brand confirmed it, and early 2025 is the date on which the ban on selling motorcycles not adapted to Euro 5+ comes into force, and at which time the R1 will officially disappear. It’s a sad goodbye, but we’re talking about a motorcycle that came on the market in 2015, and that would require a lot of investment to update.such as a new OBD-II system or a new control of the exhaust hatches.
However, there is an important novelty from Japan. According to Young-Machinethe Japanese have received information about a new model of the Yamaha YZF-R1 that will bring some changes at an aesthetic and suspension level. And that can mean two things.
This new motorcycle could mean, on the one hand, a model change to support the new regulations (which require a deterioration detection function for the exhaust catalyst) and continue selling the model in the future. Or, on the other hand, that it is not compatible and This is a final edition of R1as a farewell.
However, the option for Yamaha to continue marketing its YZF-R1 seems unlikely, when it was the brand itself that confirmed that this will not happen. That makes us lean towards the second option, and the Japanese also think the same; Everything indicates that a final edition of the R1 is on the way.
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The Iwata brand was quite clear about this in its announcement: “Starting in 2025, the R1 will be sold exclusively for track driving in Europe”. A change of course after such a forceful statement seems unlikely coming from the Japanese giant. So, what would a final edition of the legendary R1 be like?
Taking into account that the motorcycle will no longer be sold at the end of 2024, it should either arrive imminently and in a limited number of units, or it will be solely and exclusively marketable in North America, where regulations do not affect or prohibit such as Europe and Japan. The changes detailed are an improvement in the suspensionsprobably equipped with something better than the current ones, which consist of a multi-adjustable 43 mm Kayaba fork and a monoshock from the same Japanese brand in the rear.
It is also said that there will be changes outside. That would mean not only that it would sport a special farewell livery, but that it would equip some MotoGP-style spoilers or ‘winglets’, according to Young Machine.
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Its successor will be the Yamaha R9, for which preparations are already being finalized in Iwata. It will be a sports model that will debut in the 2025 World Supersport based on the engine, chassis and chassis of the MT-09, a three-cylinder machine with 120 hp of power and lots of electronics.
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