YAMAHA YZF 750 R7 OW02 SUPER SPORTS

[weeksy]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-YZF-7 ... Sw2z9gQx~7

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'd buy one, but I have a big problem justifying spending that much on a bike

[KungFooBob]

I'd buy one if I won the lotto, but only after I'd bought an RC45 first.

[MingtheMerciless]

Beautiful looking machines however I remember the early ones had a crank bearing issue. I think Dan Harris in one of the magazines raced one and upset the Yamaha engineers when they delivered a new crank in a wooden box saying “is that the coffin I send it back in”.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I'd buy one if I won the lotto, but only after I'd bought an RC45 first.

I'd buy the RC45, a Foggy FP1 and then the R7.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I seriously looked at buying one for £27K, it has 0 miles, but that would have been 90% of my savings at the time, 70% of what I owed on my mortgage, for it to be sat in my garage and probably do 5 track days a year and pose with it at a few shows, in the end I bought an FZR400 for £1200, the FZR is probably more enjoyable.

[weeksy]

in the end I bought an FZR400 for £1200, the FZR is probably more enjoyable.

I was with you until this bit.

[KungFooBob]

I had an FZR400RR, best bike I ever owned.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

in the end I bought an FZR400 for £1200, the FZR is probably more enjoyable.

I was with you until this bit.

If I spent £27K on a bike I'd be scared to ride it fast, I can throw away a £1200 bike and not care. There's something very stress free about owning cosmetically challenged bikes, so long as they're mechanically sound.

[Jody]

Beautiful looking machines however I remember the early ones had a crank bearing issue. I think Dan Harris in one of the magazines raced one and upset the Yamaha engineers when they delivered a new crank in a wooden box saying “is that the coffin I send it back in”.

I recall being told that some people ended up junking the motor and installing an R1 engine !!??

[KungFooBob]

The cranks twisted as soon a you started tuning them, it was cheaper to put an R1 engine in than buy a new crank (or race kit crank anyway).

[Mr. Dazzle]

Its a bike built for an incredibly specific purpose isnt it? Not just track focused, but track focused and "built down" (for want of a better phrase) to fit within the rules. So unless you're planning on hopping in your time machine and mounting a superbike campaign back in the 90s something else is always going to make more sense.