Hoping to chuck one of these beside Murphy to keep him company. Always liked this version, and it has the Yamaha/Ohlins rear shock...
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SAFE-T, Dec 29 2006, 04:03 AMHoping to chuck one of these beside Murphy to keep him company. Always liked this version, and it has the Yamaha/Ohlins rear shock...
Neat bikes!
My thunderace shares a lot of parts with it, and I've learned a lot about them over the past couple of years tinkering... drop me a PM if you have trouble.
Common problems are the jets wearing in the carbs, but not hard or expensive to repair. Other than that, no big issues. Late model monoblock calipers bolt on and make a big improvement in stopping. Oh, and lube the exup... soon!
Have fun! These things were real exotics in thier day, and they're still fast and have amazing handling!
About five years ago, A Yamaha dealership in Redwood City CA, near my then workplace, had a mint condition (Never raced and looked like never even driven on the street) R7 for sale for like 23K dollars. It sat there for the longest time and eventually dissapeared. Damn, it there's any Yamaha that might pair well with our RC45, it would be that bike. I heard the R7s are now going for monster money........if only I had the 20 grand back then, That bike will certainly be in my garage today! It has to be the best looking Yamaha road bike ever yet.
WERA910, Dec 29 2006, 04:17 AMLate model monoblock calipers bolt on and make a big improvement in stopping. Oh, and lube the exup... soon!
I think Yamaha must have used the same caliper bolt pattern since the late 80's since I've even seen those on old FJ's...good to know they fit on the YZF's too.
I don't recall the YZF750 having EXUP in Canada though.
Beck, Dec 28 2006, 08:30 PMAbout five years ago, A Yamaha dealership in Redwood City CA, near my then workplace, had a mint condition (Never raced and looked like never even driven on the street) R7 for sale for like 23K dollars. It sat there for the longest time and eventually dissapeared. Damn, it there's any Yamaha that might pair well with our RC45, it would be that bike. I heard the R7s are now going for monster money........if only I had the 20 grand back then, That bike will certainly be in my garage today! It has to be the best looking Yamaha road bike ever yet.
Beck 95 VFR
I knew a guy named Andy that hit a blue hair in a Lexus making a U-Turn over a double yellow in Malibu while going over a bill on his Graves'd out R7. He died on the spot in the arms of Jack the owner of Hollywood Yamaha, his friend and an aquaintaince of mine who was right behind him. Sadly, that's my only real association with R7's. (IMG:style_emoticons/oldemoticons/sad.gif)
Saw one at the Rock Store a couple weeks ago. Had a MotoGP style exhaust on it. Looked great. (IMG:style_emoticons/oldemoticons/fing02.gif)
Trying again - the site is returning errors from time to time when I submit replies to topics.
So what is this and what is rare about it?
It's not rare as such. Just that Suzuki and Kawasaki were updating the GSX-R750 and ZXR-750 while Yamaha kept the YZF750 much the same - of course the 'must haves' bought the latest and greatest, and YZF sales languished. Till Haga entered SBK on one, anyway... then Yamaha went and replaced it with the R7, a limited run big dollar homologation special like the earlier OW01. They'd released the R1 and I suppose that's where their mainstream production model budget went. They got it right, as it turned out, when SBK progressed to 1000cc specs anyway. But the R7 never hit the mark, even with Haga aboard... don't know how it went in domestic Superbike series but I don't remember seeing them in Australia.
Cool choice Safe-T - I have a bellypan off one of those in the garage... is it a 5-valver, and if so was it the first with 5 valves?
Strangely, the R7 was actually slower than the YZF-R according to Haga.
The 750 still had the five-valve Genesis head Yamaha debuted on the FZ750 back in 1985. By '97 Yamaha had purchased some or all of Ohlins so the bike came stock with an 'OEM' Ohlins rear shock. By the time the R1 came out in '98 Yamaha had dropped both the five-valve design and the Ohlins shock.
SAFE-T, Dec 29 2006, 01:47 AMI'd say the first-generation YZF's were more underappreciated than rare. The VFR of inline supersports.
I got ya. There are a couple of older YZFs running around Rolla. I couldn't tell you if they are 600 or 750s, but one is pretty rough and the other looks good.
Yea, those damn college students are killing the supply of old sportbikes.
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