Yamaha R1 as First Street Bike?

Question

Wanting to get a street bike and thinking about the R1. Found a 2002 with 10,000 miles for $4,000. I have a lot of experience with motorcycles ( i raced motocross for 8+ years (I got 2nd place in my district (so i know how to ride pretty well))) I understand motorcycles just never ridden a street bike. Would an r1 be too much for me? (I'm 18 but very responsible for my age, have had a 350z(paid for by myself) for 3 years with no speeding tickets or accidents).

Answer 1

You need to watch this.



https://youtu.be/BglzNAML78M



And this.



https://youtu.be/-cUgf4qho4A



Buy some high quality riding gear and NEVER do anything stupid unless you are in full gear. There is a 100% chance you will eventually go down on a bike, everyone does. Dont pretend it wont happen to you. Just expect it.

Answer 2

Shear madness for you to get one of those at your age and complete lack of on road experience. Even the R6 is too much for a first road bike.

To illustrate this I cite the UK laws which mean that until 19 you cannot ride anything over 125cc. After that and on passing a test you can upgrade to a bike which makes no more than 47bhp and if restricted to do that then it cannot be a bike which makes over 94bhp as standard. So no R6 never mind the R1

After 2 years of holding the 47bhp licence, or at age 24 if that is sooner, you can upgrade with a further test to unlimited bikes.

So you see 21 is the minimum that anyone in the UK could ride an R6. This is all for good reasons - the amount of youngsters who though they were good on bikes and died or had life altering injuries usually with no other road user involved.



My experience - 39 years of road riding

Answer 3

There are a lot of things on the street that bite very hard, ....be very careful. .... and since you are 18.... get an insurance quote on an R1 before you buy anything! You... after you hear the insurance quote, please be sitting, may want to choose a more modest motorcycle for a few years until you are in a different insurance risk age group!



In a FEW years with the money you will have saved... will be able to buy 3 R-1's!

Answer 4

"Yamaha R1 as First Street Bike? "

Will probably result in death or serious injury. Riding a 350Z gives you no idea whatsoever of what an R1 is like.

It's like a girl that's ridden a pony asking if she can ride Secretariat in the Derby.

Answer 5

Get an insurance quote.



Ask yourself: "Why do I need a 180mph race replica for my first bike?"



Driving a fast bike slow (you can break pretty much any US speed limit in first gear) is boring.



I took about a decade on the street to work up to my 1100 and am probably going to downsize on my next bike.



Also, you need to realize that anything fun on dirt will kill you on the street.

Answer 6

Youll be fine mate, i went straight from mx to a thousand no problems, your biggest problems going to be remembering to keep elbows in not out. I found them suprisingly easy to ride (from all the stuff you hear) and yeah they got alot of power but not as much as what i was expecting(again from what you here) A 450 mx bike has just as much poke in top end but the 1000 sports just hold it their if you get what i mean, like one big surge of power as opposed to short bursts of it on the mx. Dont listen to people about getting a 600 first, you crash either and your in ****. If you start on a 250 road bike for a couple of years maybe a 600s a good idea but in my opinion their really isnt to much of difference in handling etc.. and a thousand will only have the power of a 600 if you dont pull the throttle back to much. With mx experience your already steps ahead of many riders you just have to learn to ride a different style.

Answer 7

if i was your parent i was say Hell No! but im not.as a veteran rider,my advice is not to get it because the R1 is a very powerful bike.It doesnt come with a steering stabilizer maybe the seller had one installed.if they didnt,i promise you will wish they had.

Answer 8

Try to get an insurance quote.

Answer 9

Sure, go ahead kid, get the R1.



lol.