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.

[Potter]

I never really got the R7, not when a bog standard Exup was a fraction of the price and faster, put good suspension on the exup and it probably handled better on the road for the average bloke too.
It's not particularly good looking, it's not iconic like an RC30, and it basically passed me by, like a GSXR-R or a ZX RR.

I'd have one in my lottery garage and when they came out I devoured the magazine stories because it was (sort of) exotic, but I'd only own one now because of the exclusivity and because I'd get a buzz out of owning a unicorn that back in the day I considered was unobtainable for someone like me.

AS JB has discovered, all those bikes you dreamed about were actually just fanciful dreams, they aren't actually that attractive when you have the money to buy them.

[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.