Papa yam is so good at motorcycle memes that he managed to catch my attention for the entirety of the video for all his videos, its a big thing because i m a gen Z guy... So, hats off or should i say carbs off to u papa yam...
GSX-R750 - It's a crime to leave it off the list. It started in 1985 and still going. You see them at the track to this day and I think it's a perfect balance of power and light weight. They still bring a smile to my face after all these years.
@yammie I started watching your videos about 6 years ago because I wanted to ride motorcycles. Here I stand today as a 2 year vet on my 750 gsxr Thanks for the information
Right???? The GPz 900R 'Ninja 900' from 1984 changed the face of sport bikes forever. Liquid cooled, 16 valve, end mounted cam chain allowing for a compact engine. 150 MPH, plus looked bad-ass for the day. You have to question the validity of a list that does not have this bike on it.
@@GPz84 I’m picky when it comes to Bikes and the ninja is the one that has caught my eye 95% of the time. That bike just looks so out of this world. And all the dynamics of many other bikes fail in comparison
@@mitjahrenic9296 Thanks, I just moved to the Philippines and had never seen one before moving here. Picked it up for a good price and it’ll follow me wherever I move after here.
Glad you mentioned the first generation GSXR but I guess you didn't know it was the first street legal race bike. There was nothing like it on the street back then. People actually safety wired it up and took it to the race track. It started the hole sport bike seen. All sport bikes today have there roots in the GSXR. the CBR was fast but the GSXR was first. Glad you showed a picture of my first GSXR blue and white still the best looking sport bike in my opinion. And thanks for showing my 1996 M900 Monster. I loved that bike too. I got tired of leaning over the bars. Now I'm old and ride a Road King and do dual sport rides on my 1995 DR350.
The only bike that changed my mind to finally get one was my mighty turtle, mt03. It has been the heart and soul of getting me to work over my shitty minivan, and I'll never regret it.
Interesting during the Monster segment, how it gave rise to the SVs. I had an SV for a very long time, but my leaner bike was the (very nice) VTR 250, which got mistaken for a Monster quite a lot. And my dad still has his original GPZ ;)
Concerning the CBR900RR, I was thinking of buying it for my squidly younger self, but then had a realization that it was too hardcore for me. Ended up buying a CBR600F2...and then the CBR900RR started to be crashed in huge numbers which made insurance impossible to get. Meanwhile, the CBR600F2 had very reasonable insurance rates and stayed that way. The F2/3/4 were very much bought as street bikes instead of sportbikes. I put 60,000 miles on one of mine.
I had the 1991 CBR600F2 for a year then traded for the 1993 CBR900RR that was released in the states in 1992. I kept the 900RR for nine years and 267,000+ miles when it developed a problem I couldn't figure out.
@@cbr9nmr 267,000 miles in 9 years in 81 miles each and every day of that CBR's existence. That probably means about 2 hours per day, assuming an average speed of 40 mph (highway and urban average).
@@langhamp8912 See Sport Rider June 1996 for 100k report. Sport Rider June 1999 for 200k report. Motorcycle Consumer News magazine February 2000 for 240k report. Commuting in SoCal 20 to 80 miles each way year round and weekend mountain/canyon rides. Numerous track days during the nine years. Fuel pumps seemed to be good for about 80k and the stator about 120k.
The fact that 'naked bikes' don't exist aside (they were originally just crashed sport bikes stripped of their shattered plastics), the most influential was the Triumph Speed Triple.
An impossible task to name but 5, I know. But I’d have included the Royal Enfield Bullet not just for its introduction of the swing arm in 1948, but for having a 76 year old marquee that is still going strong
If memory serves, the first rear swingarm suspension was brought out by Moto Guzi in '35, and the first conventional system with tubular shocks was Velocette in '36.
I mean I think it’s because it’s in a category of very legendary bikes to begin with. The CBX, GPZ1100, GS1100E, and CB1100F were all just as fast and just as good looking and because of the shaft drive on the XS they kind of got turned into tourers by the end of their life cycle. Cool bikes though
Fireblade?!? No, wrong- not even close. It's just a jerkwad fantasy toy, like the Skyline. GSX-R750 likely, Ninja 900rr arguably- even the RZ-350 might have a claim, but not the Fireblade.
Really impossible to list 5 motorcycles that changed motorcycling. The 1940s Harley or early 1920s are far more influential on motorcycling than the sportser. Not mention the Kawasaki Triple, Suzuki GSXR, several Italian and British motorcycles from the 50s or even the first Honda motorcycle. Some would even say the Kawasaki KZ or GPZ.
While few may remember it, and it's kinda "apples to oranges" , Suzuki beat Ducati by 4 years with its own Monster.... the Bandit 400. Its very red, has a trellis frame, stressed member engine hanging below, no fairings and a pleasant to admire mechanical minimalism that still looks great today. Sure, the SV650 is far more celebrated and has soldiered on for decades, but the GSF400 Bandit came first and makes it look like plain vanilla style-wise. Its way too small for me, but I love riding my Bandit on short runs. Its a frantic, 14K RPM ripper made all the better with a full GSX-R suspension/brake setup.
I have a 1989 FZR1000 and am kinda pissed you didn't mention it. I mean it was crowned bike of the decade but how can you just gloss over the original GSXR750? I was there. I remember when that bike came out. Nothing on the street looked like that motorcycle at the time. It was a race bike with headlights. Everything that came out after that was copying its looks.
Although it is the most frightening thing I've ever ridden, Piaggios Vespa changed two wheeled riding to practical commuting. The Velocette KTT 1928 with positive stop foot shifting, definitely changed riding forever. Imagine any modern bike with hand shifting.
my friend has the original 1st gen carbureted Ducati monster m900 handed down by his hardcore ass dad. At an age of 18 where you can get a big bike >500cc license from where im at, the ducati is his first big bike. Now it is more of a franken-monster with airbox and filter delete, Keihin FCR41 race carbs, rear ohlins shock with the huge piggyback reservoir from some other monster, custom silmotor 2 to 1 exhaust.
Well I think you should have mention the Kawasaki Gpz 900. I am not into superbikes but I know for sure that the gpz 900 was the one to change the super sport bikes architecture which was the same since the braugh superior ss100. And made it what we still have today… no r1 or gsxr or Ducati or cbrrrrrrr would be the same if not for the Kawasaki gpz900
The 1969 Honda CB750 Four really changed the world. You could buy a Reliable (as opposed to Brit bikes) comfortable well rounded bike with disc brakes, modern ignition and uber Reliable. No Lucas Prince of Darkness crap on these bikes. Competition brought us the UJM i.e. Universal Japanese Motorcycle! Different size engines and styles but all with CB750 Four DNA. But all companies 2 up street bikes. Then The 1985 Suzuki GSX-750 brought us the first off the shelf race ready bikes. During their introduction they set several 24 hour average speed records. Then all the Japanese followed. The Honda V-4 engine Interceptor was a great bike. Don't forget the Kawasaki DL series that brough affects dependable adventure touring for the masses
so true about HONDA once being THE company that influenced motorcycling. until they came up with an air bagged goldwing that is... and about influencing DUCATI, just take a look at the NR 750 and witness how many design features DUCATI copied from that bike when coming up with "THE LEGENDARY" 916...
another important note about the triumph bonneville -- it basically spawned yamaha's presence in sportbikes, as they copied it for their XS models beginning with the XS1 650cc twin, which many describe as the best triumph bonneville you can buy. I daily a '71 XS1B and it's the absolute shit.
Erm, in the early 90s there were dozens of unfaired bikes to choose from, like all the GSX range aside from the Katana, The Kwaka Z range, Honda's CX, C range, Yamaha's Strokers. you have to understand that most bikers in the 90s started out on 80s bikes, not brand new bikes. bikes with fairings were seen as very high tech and exotic, at least in the UK
I know I'll get hate for this but everything after the BMW R32, WHAT THE FUCK???? Title is way inaccurate, some of the bikes you left off are without a doubt and beyond argument the pivotal points in motorcycling history! Masey Furguson has no business being in this list the monster yeah great bike and saved duckrappi but nothing that changed riding forever. The Bonniville style thing had been done for years Triumph just made it a bit more reliable and the CBR900rr yes great bike but not top 5! DUDE
If you squint slightly, the original CBR900RR Fireblade is quite small and there's a reason for that: it was supposed to be the 750 that knocked Suzuki et al off their perches, but the rules changed and Honda didn't have a direct competitor in the 1000cc game so they shoe-horned a 900 lump into a 750. And thus was a legend born.
I bought a '94 CBR900RR. Yes it was flickable, but there was no feedback from the front end. You never knew when you were at the limit before it went down. I replaced it with a '99 R1 which was a much better bike with confidence inspiring handling and a much better engine.
The Ubiquitous sv650. La cucheracha of motorcycles. Its bomb proof, everybody's had one and they're still the best bang for thy buck Decathlete beast on the market.
On the Fireblade, a bike that never saw production but made a huge impact was the almost ready for mass production very late 1980s CBR750RR, but it was cancelled in favour of the RC30 VFR750R, but the CBR750RR did not die, it was instead bored out to to 893cc, became the Fireblade and started the whole huge weight reduction supersport 1000 class bikes.
