NEW-GENERATION SPORTS
“…DESIGNED AS A TRAINING PLATFORM FOR RIDERS TO DEVELOP RACE SKILLS.”
Riding fast is an adrenaline rush; it’s why sportsbikes exist. The new Yamaha R7 will give you that rush, although it will do it for a lot less money than just about anything else you can describe as a full-size sportsbike.
Rounding up bigger, faster motorcycles in the twists and turns of Sydney Motorsport Park is an absolute buzz, the pleasure of being able to get hard onto the throttle early without much fear of the dreaded highside offering a different sports ride to a machine with mega horsepower and high-tech rider aids.
The R7 offers heaps of bang-for-buck in a compact package. It replaces the legendary R6 in the streetbike line-up, Yamaha dropping the road-registrable version for just track-only machines in 2022. The R7 now slots in as a machine between the R3, a very basic sportsbike that is great for learning the craft of sports riding, and the R1, Yamaha’s high-tech, high-horsepower-sporting flagship.
Critics will say it’s not fast, but it is – over 200km/h. Critics will say it lacks tech, but it doesn’t need it. Traditionalists will whinge it’s not a true descendent of
