ANSWER ING THE R QUE STION

2017 Suzuki GSX-R1000R vs. 2017 Yamaha YZF-R1

When conducting our 2017 superbike comparison (“The Waiting Game,” August) a great deal of consideration went into the selection of bikes to be included. Foremost, only the most recently updated superbikes were pitted against the previous year’s winner. This set the stage for a potential three-peat by the Cycle World Ten Best Superbikewinning Yamaha YZF-R1.

While the R1 is available in three performance tiers, we view the middle child as the “standard” member of the R1 family and in turn went with an Aprilia RSV4 RR and Honda CBR1000RR, each of which also have a higher-spec sibling aligned in price and spirit with Yamaha’s $22,499 YZF-R1M.