If you had a pound for every Yamaha R6 ever sold… you’d have lots of pounds. I don’t know exactly how many of the machines have trundled down the Japanese brand’s production line since the model’s inauguration back in 1999, but the answer is ‘a lot’. R6s are everywhere, and rightfully so because they’ve been up at the pointy end of the supersport sector from the second they joined the party, changing with the times to stay at the top of their game. I’d go as far guessing that the R6 is possibly the most commonly sold 600 of the 21st century (although Honda might have something to say about that). Of the many generations we’ve come to know and love over the years, the one you see before you is perhaps the most popular of them all (13S).
Technically speaking, that might be down to the fact it’s had the
