R7 Yamaha

[Maha]

Are there any in NZ?
I know Noriyuki Haga raced one in 2000 and it made the top 10 list of some dudes all time bike list in this months Motorcycle Trader Mag, but i have never seen one, or was it never produced as a road bike?

http://www.asl-testsite.co.uk/motors...-OW02-1999.jpg

[James Deuce]

It was produced as a road bike, and about 100 made their way to the UK where most of them had R1 engines installed because the R7 engine was "limited" to 100HP and you need about 30000 pound to unleash the other 50 or so HP.

I've never seen one here, but that doesn't mean there isn't one somewhere and quite frankly the 100HP version would "do".

Best looking Sprotsbike Yamahaahahahaaahaha have produced to date.

[justsomeguy]

http://www.motorcycle.com/manufactur...wo2-14646.html

Only 500 exacting, hand-made machines are being produced, making it one of the rarest production bikes ever to leave a Japanese factory. Even if you could afford the £20,000 ($32,000 USD) sticker price, you couldn't actually purchase the bike unless you can prove you have a full season's racing ahead of you.


http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/bi...-R7-1999-2000/

[NZsarge]

Are there any in NZ?
I know Noriyuki Haga raced one in 2000 and it made the top 10 list of some dudes all time bike list in this months Motorcycle Trader Mag, but i have never seen one, or was it never produced as a road bike?

As Jim said it's a stunning bike apart from the 100 odd horsepower motor, a bike that pretty deserves at least 160-180 ponies.

[NZsarge]

Yamahaahahahaaahaha

I'm disappointed Jim.....

[vfxdog]

Zero-miler R7's turn up from time to time in odd spots around the planet and seem to sell for somewhere around the US$30-40K mark. Used ones are scarce but can be bought for around US$25K. A nice racebike went for around £14K on UK eBay around 3 weeks ago. The Haga bike was dismantled and the remains spread far and wide. Fabulous bikes- in the day they were about as close to a GP or WSB bike as you could get. The '98 R1 was very similar, in spirit at least. Don't know of any in NZ but Tony Rees would be the man to ask.

[onearmedbandit]

Don't know if any made it to NZ, but there is a sales brochure for sale on Trademe.

[T.W.R]

Pretty exclusive beast OW-02

[Zoolander]

http://www.motorcycle.com/manufactur...wo2-14646.html

Only 500 exacting, hand-made machines are being produced, making it one of the rarest production bikes ever to leave a Japanese factory. Even if you could afford the £20,000 ($32,000 USD) sticker price, you couldn't actually purchase the bike unless you can prove you have a full season's racing ahead of you.


http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/bi...-R7-1999-2000/

For some reason I thought they only made 300. The R7 is one of my all time dream bikes, I can't imagine there would be too many original unraced ones left. You had to apply to Yamaha for consideration if you wanted one so most went straight to race teams. Although if you're famous its probably a different story, apparently Ben Affleck has one. I bought my red and white R1 (for sale by the way) over a blue one because the paint scheme was similar to the R7 so about as close as I'll ever get!

[Pussy]

I'd like to see Yamaha build a new generation R7, just imagine a R6 sized bike with close to R1 power, mmmmmm!

[limbimtimwim]

Apparently the crankshaft was made out of cheese.

Otherwise I want one. More than I want an RC45.

[R6_kid:Me]

I'd like to see Yamaha build a new generation R7, just imagine a R6 sized bike with close to R1 power, mmmmmm!

Rumour has it they may consider a mid-sized sports-road-bike if supersports bikes get too track focussed.

[Zoolander]

Rumour has it they may consider a mid-sized sports-road-bike if supersports bikes get too track focussed.

mmmmmmmmmm YZF-R8

[BigG]

I got a R7 it sitting on my cabinet cos its a scale model, nice to

[orangeback]

when i lived in the UK i saw a few for sale , but putting R7 fairings in the 99 -01 R1 was verry popular for the sharper look and more power option , costing a hole lot less