What bikes are in the beginner bike giveaway? Would love this bike but never rode a squid missile before but really want to get one they look beyond amazingly fun.
What about track day bois and grrls and knee drag bois and grrls? What about the people that want to look around and be faster then just about anything they see. Not everyone wants to commute on their bikes.
actually its not a problem at all, when i start practice bikes, i use my brother HD Sportster 1200cc. Now, my first bike is MV agusta brutale 1099RR. As long as you ride with care and know your limit, its not a problem at all.
Bagas Agung Hmm. My first bike was a 05’ ZX10 in 2008. It was what was offered for a trade and I took it. I loved it. I survived obviously but, I was scared to death when on city roads. On backwoods roads, it was a dream. I sold it before I ever became confident with it.
@@bagasagung1097 It's actually pretty damn stupid. The bike isn't going to "respect your limits" because the bike is gonna do whatever the fuck the rider tells it to and the margin for error for a newbie on a liter bike is next to nothing. Dumb to get such a powerful bike and spend so much time being scared of it and dropping it
Went around a pretty hard curve at 156 on my R1 a few years back and it was the scariest/best thing I've experienced. The R1 will keep you stuck to the pavement. Such a great bike.
Riding an R1 gives that feeling of getting away with something you're not supposed to literally all the time. Take corners faster than everybody else. Smoke everybody and run from cops like it's a stroll on the beach. Your throttle is a literal time machine. You can punch up to a five star wanted level on a liter bike effortlessly.
On my cross country team we occasionally used the term “slow day hero”. The R1 is meant for the slow day hero’s who will win on the street when no one is really racing.
Poppa Yams. Love your video. I do like the new R1, but the one I cherish is a 2005 Ravin. I chose the 1000cc only because it fit me better .It was between the R1 and the 04 GSXR1000. When the Dealer called me in, the sly devil had my bike broadside at the front door as I walked in. I was in love. It wasn't the thought of how fast it was or what I thought other people thought. I was the feel of the bike. I may not have been an unfit individual due to being in the service when i purchased it, but at 6' and 220, I still kind of look like a circus bear on a bicycle. None the less, it felt right. Now, at age 54, she still makes me laugh while scaring the 💩 out of me. Props to you Mr. Yams for keeping us informed. Young and old...er. Stay safe Sir.
I love how modest, humble & genuine Papa Yam is! You don’t see that too often with guys on RU-vid who have big bikes, he doesn’t let his channel/subscribers go to his head & I appreciate it 👏🏼👌🏼👏🏼👌🏼
@yammienoob you’re absolutely right about getting a bike for how it makes you feel. Lots of haters for the Gixxer life, but I recently bought my GSX R 600 and love the way it makes me feel on it. The look and feel of the bike is like it was meant for me. Thanks for the great video!
primo sparazza my homie rides a 2011 gsxr750 😜 granted when we met I hated him because I thought he was just a gixxer bro 😂 Turned out to be a good dude. When I was new to riding I wanted a gsxr750 so bad but I just didn’t have enough experience to know what I really wanted. Once I did I got my 2018 cbr1krr and I love it to death. And I’m grateful to get the chance to have my dream bike since most people don’t get the opportunity 🙏🏻
I’ve been trying to get a motorcycle for years unfortunately due to covid 19 I don’t have a job. So I enlisted in the marine corps since it’s been a dream of mine to be in the corps. I love your videos and they are my inspiration for riding☺️ keep it going☺️
@@stephen5665 I hope you experience in your life that, someone bombing and killing people in your country for money. I would ask if you would feel like a snowflake then
The R1 is a dreambike of mine but I also thought it was such a hard bike to ride so I was thinking of the R6 first, but after seeing this I think I might go for the R1 instead. Thanks for the video!
Omg I love this next week i will be able to sign up for this. This has always been my dream bike. And its also my favorite color. Love your channel. Unlike the other channels I come across that sounds like they don't know what they are talking about. You actually break everything down for a better understanding.
I dont know what it is, I could only feel cool in a nice car. You always look like a try hard, midlife crisis, loser on a motorcycle. Unless I'm on some special bike like a 1000RR SP1 surrounded by bikers who know wassup.
@@ihateeverything3972 18 yr old me felt the same way about guys whipping around in AMGs and Ms, thinking they were snapping necks and stopping traffic, and I would laugh knowing my $3k bike would smoke em. I was more of a bike enthusiasts than a car at the time, but 12 years of growing up and owning the very same types of cars I made fun of back then changed that mindset. You'll grow out of it, and come to understand people just wanna buy what they worked hard for and makes them happy.
@@Turtle_Legs Nah, I was a car guy first. Liked real high performance cars, the kind of things that get locked in some rich guy's garage. Then I started getting in to tuners which were still too expensive to get good power from, and they like to explode, then I started getting in to motorcycles. I already have an appreciation for cars, want the S1000RR to match the E46 and the CBR1000RR to match the NSX.
Great video, well spoken while demonstrating responsible and safe riding. This is how mature responsible adults ride these sort of bikes on public roads. The childish idiots out there , who have no regard for safety of others on public roads, because they only care about feeding their childish Egos, should pay attention.
@@sh0wtim3studios I used to daily my 600RR, now I'm bike less. I might as well be dickless, just give me the balls. I'm still a man, just a sad empty shell of a man who has no fun.
Lol I'm one of the lunatics. I daily my 08 Raven R1 through all seasons to work and riding around. It's a blast. Will never get tired of how good it feels or how beautiful it is!
Hey yams I just wanted to tell you thank you. I’ve been watching your videos for months and I know you don’t know me but you’ve actually helped me so much. I’m about to get my first bike cbr500 I’ve gotten all the necessary gear and I’ve pretty much watched every video you have over the course of the past 6 months. I’m a lifelong fan of yours your a great guy! Maybe one day I’ll see ya on the road
Yams, how come you never show yourself (especially in profile) on a bike? We want to see 1) the *sitting position* required to ride the bike, and 2) how *cool* people look while riding the bike.
Mine was both. It’s cheap on gas for my commute to work. But I also love riding and I ride nearly every chance I can. Since March I’ve ridden 12k miles just to put some perspective in there 😂 I ride a lot lol 😂🤷🏼♂️
Totally guilty of daily riding my 2019 R1. Love every moment. Switching between ride modes, using the YRC settings app and Y-TRAC app to toggle to peak performance for long rides along the coast with long straights, vs when I'm going into twistys mountain roads. I love love love my R1.
Takes (for me at least) 4k - 5k to get fully comfortable with a new 1000. I'm currently on the 19 CBR 1000RR and I have 6500+ on it now and I can comfortably rail that thing out confidently (slow learner I guess). I'd love to try an R1. I've rid one but haven't lived with one yet. That or a s1000rr.. Oh but that new 20 SPrr-r Fireblade looks good... I don't get those brand loyal tards. I love them all.
Having rode my first liter bike last month S1000RR I debate about getting a liter bike eventually to ride around daily. An then dedicate my ZX6R to mainly track days. Does it make any sense aside from I fit a little better on it being a bigger guy. Absolutely not especially for the street except for two points. When in the back roads I won’t be at as high rpms to annoy nearby houses. But other than that supersports just make me happy. In my early 20’s I had to give up racing cars for personal reasons. An now at 34 and having a mortgage (grateful), a car is just too expensive to build, maintain, and store. Being so passionate about racing is why I got into Mechanical Engineering. Not being involved at all in motorsports really made me depressed deep down. That’s why I tell people owning supersports is not the smartest choice especially for the street or for your safety. But for me the feeling I get is that important to me. I don’t want to become the next Rossi. I just want to be Ross the guy that works on and tracks cool bikes. That also screams at the sky when stuck in traffic or doing long trips on his supersport. Let me suffer in peace!!! Haha
So the ONLY type of person is say, lots of folks. 😅 Super helpful to hear you say its forgiving, easy to ride casual, and manageable as a weekender. Yeah it's more than capable track-side, but the "left & right side of the brain" as far as reliable, reasonable maintenance costs, beautiful looking sounds, it checks a lot of my boxes. I'm coming from a 996 desmo Ducati and they can have those maintenance intervals and costs.
My first liter bike is an 09 R1 and I love it, mostly stock except a few covers and clip ons and then i did everything in carbon, basically just some aesthetic stuff but mechanically it is more bike than I will ever use as stock already but its fun as hell. Here in LA I get to use that power at every stop light, gets up to speed immediately and it still excites me every damn time lol. I went with the generation that i love the looks of and because it has no rider aids, just a 3 stage power setting so that I cpuld learn to control it, will be getting a new gen one this next year and cant wait.
Its certainly not a daily commuter I had one, a 2000 model, so did my friend at the time. After work, (he was a waiter) his favourite party trick was wheeling over the crossroad traffic lights, boy could he pull that bike up with skill and ease, way more talent on two wheels than I would ever possess. My last wheely was in 1977, I went through the large glass window of a newly built ice skating centre and learned my lesson. Stay on two wheels. Anyway one day his luck ran out wearing only his waiters white shirt, and black trousers he went straight on into a pickup truck. His head went much further down the road than his bike or body. I felt sick for ages I still kept on riding, and have moved forward but I can say it’s to focused for anything other than exhilarating riding. You don’t get a bike like this to be slow on.
You talked about not really needing such a high top speed at the track, so how about a BMW S1000RR? 207 hp, but a much lower top speed... somewhere a little over 125 or so. Any chance you can test this out and give an opinion? Still like my R1 though.
I got the R1 because of the electronics. Traction control, wheelie control, turning traction control, abs. It was a quick way to ride at a higher level without hundreds of hours on a bike. If 600s had all the electronics and all the rider mode options I would of just gotten one of those. Definitely was a weekend toy and was able to work on it myself confidently. Only thin I would say is the insurance is high if you are still in your first year of riding.
Exactly the opposite, of the reason I love my 06, Raven ,R1. At 66, ride it daily, enjoy raw, no tech rider assist. But...then again, my first bike was a 71 R5b, 350 2 stroke Yamaha. Look those up. How I lived through that, not sure.😂
I think the major consideration before buying an R1 for street use is insurance cost, which is prohibitively higher here than for a 600cc. Call your insurance company for a quote before buying an R1.
