Boo and hiss.

 

I read that, the end of an era, for certain... Writing was on the wall, I suppose, when Suzuki axed the Gixxer 1k.

 

They are probably working on electric powered. But Geezus guys, hang on to what yah got !!! Metaphorically and literally !

 

Damn liberal kids.

 

Yeah this is not happy news at all. 😕

 

😂 wow!

 

Sadly, my Yamaha dealer told me this last year. Having owned the very first R1 and currently owning a 2023 R1M, this is a sad day. Emissions regulations and and aging demographic have killed it off. R.I.P. R1.

 

Demographics, you're right, I hadn't thought of that,,certainly and probably a factor.

Let's wait and see what they come up with, that's electric powered. One thing to realize, it that piston engines,
even a V-12, for some percentage of the cycle are dead mass. Jets, and electric motors
make power continuously, microsecond to microsecond. I've had some experience with high
powered electric motors, and they are astonishingly powerfull. More over, the possibility for
advanced electronic control, is way beyond what they do now with combustion. They could make electric motors
that with software could emulate, any bike, you like, and even make it switchable. Cross plane, Flat plane, V-4, anything at the flick of a switch. Even some possibility of
a percentage of front wheel dive.

 

Let’s see. I can’t speak for North America but certainly in Europe and particularly the U.K., large capacity sports bikes were all the rage some years ago. Unfortunately, riders are getting older and the younger ones don’t seem interested in or can’t afford litre bikes anymore and sales have plummeted. Let’s see what the future brings.

 

Interesting, I just checked and Suzuki Canada still has the full gixxer lineup on their website (including the 750, which I thought was gone years ago)

 

RU in the GTA ?

 

 

If it doesn’t sell, it doesn’t make money. We can go on forever as to why sales are down but I might start hurting feelings. 😂

 

Let it rip! Facts don’t care about your feelings.

 

there are always bro's in their 20s and 30s who want a nice bike. demographics isn't the problem here. if it is, its like 9th on the list.

the only real problem is the liberals in the above-mentioned markets making things harder and harder for the manufacturers. you know it, i know it.

would they have stopped making their bike if they did NOT have to contend with euro5 compliance? with 5+ and so on? no they wouldn't have, and we all know that too. too much gov regulation = less fun for the rest of us.

 

now i'm really worried in crashing my r1 on track and have it written off and not being able to get back into another one.

 

There's always the used market.

 

Something that doesn't surprise me at all. People don't buy them that much, and Europe emissions laws don't help either and most of people would applaud that because they keep being told the world is going to end because of the ICE engines. Sad and boring world we live nowadays.

 

Something that doesn't surprise me at all.
People don't buy them that much, and Europe emissions laws don't help either and most of people would aplaude that because they keep being told the world os going to end because of the ICE engines.
Sad and boring world we live nowdays.

Compared to aggregate of general combustion engine vehicles, the pollution output, and given the numbers of top tier superbikes, its negligible. What a lake is, to the pacific ocean.

 

This is very sad.
:/

 

Guess I’m holding on to my R1

 

they may keep a race only model for sale.... the race r6 (sold out) sells in dealerships here in socal. you never know......

 

Lucky, we don't get any of those goodies here in Canada.

 

maybe a family trip to the south..... bring a trailer?

 

Yamaha Racing came forward to state that they would continue to sell the R1 as a track specific model, same as they have done with the R6.

Yamaha Racing Makes Decision on R1 Superbike

After earlier announcements of the approaching end of production for the Yamaha R1, Yamaha’s racing division has made its own decision on the bike

www.visordown.com

 

It better be cheaper since it won’t have any required road stuff…

 

Personally I think @2muchbluE is super excited because now he won’t need an excuse to sell his motorcycle and buy a corvette, some jorts, a polo, and a pair of new balances

 

You forgot my Carrera glasses

 

And white tube socks.

Wonder if they will still be available in the US for longer.

 

And white tube socks.

And boat loafers listening to yacht rock on xm radio

 

Sad times, although people like me are partially to blame, I think. I have no interest in riding a sportbike on the street ever again, pretty much. I finally got a chance to sit on a newer crossplane recently (think it was a '17), and it reminded me of the R6 - something I'd really only want to ride on a track. Some day I'm going to have a dedicated track setup, but for now I am loving the street more than ever. I've put over 20k miles on my KTM 890 Duke R in a little over three years - it took me over six to put 32k on my '09 R1. Thanks to some incentives, I'm about to do something I've never done before - own the same brand twice (and in a row)! A Super Duke GT is in my near future.

 

I’m kinda in the same boat. My bike stays in the garage all the time. I wanna go fast on the street all the time but I have too much to lose so I haven’t ridden on the street in over a year. I’ve officially turned track only with my R1. I was planning on buying a bike for the street but still, I have too much to lose because I wanna blow every speed limit. I would get something down on power for the street but that’s also dangerous.

 

it's not so much the people not buying it's Euro emissions is too strict. they're still going to sell them in the us and other countries.

 

I very much doubt it, do you see the R6 for sale in the "US and other countries"?

 

Sad news, but looking over the last 10 years not a surprise, the demise of the R6, cbr600 gixxer 1k etc over the last few years, and the subsequent rise of twins and triples like the R7, RS660 etc has been an indication of things to come for a while now.

It wasn't thaaaaaat long ago it was all "**** four strokes, they're shit" when the 125, 250 and 500 2 strokes started disappearing and the kind of bikes we could buy for the road and track changed dramatically- we are just seeing the turn of a new generation.

I think we have another generation or two before it all goes electric. Yamaha trademarked the "R9" etc a little while ago, I can see the R1 being replaced by an MT09 powered fully faired bike as a big brother to the R7. Id expect the second big change to be the R3 turning into something different as well (Maybe an R4, R7, R9 lineup is in our future?).

Its hard letting go of something you liked so much. Im not in love with the way sportsbikes are developing, but as long s they keep making sportsbikes in some capacity or another, Ill keep buying, modifying, thrashing, racing and crashing them