Track Day Tuesday
2015 Yamaha R1M
Miles: 12,791
One Owner
Clean Title
Located in Michigan
$14,250

SELLER
Up for your consideration is my 2015 Yamaha R1M.

They say you buy the bike and not the story, there just really isn’t much of a story with this one: I chased down one of the 500 made that year, bought it, rode it, enjoyed it, and now I find myself with 3 sportbikes and wanting a SuperNaked after falling in love with my wife’s Street Triple 765RS. We have 10 bikes between us and I’m not riding this one enough to justify keeping it. 

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This is a one-owner bike with (currently) 12,791 miles on the clock, a recent oil change, and fairly fresh tires. I’m not your typical Craigslist squid-I’m a life-long motorcyclist and the bike has mostly been a weekend backroad toy here in Michigan. It has also been to the Smokey Mountains, Tail of the Dragon, SE Ohio etc.. The bike has no issues and just needs a rider. I work on my own bikes, but don’t generally do to many things when it comes to modifying them-this one needed help to make it right from the factory.

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For those that don’t know, the R1 and R1M throttling and fueling is really bad from the factory and you can’t even hold 25mph in 2nd gear without the bike bucking and lurching. The stock tune and exhaust was so choked for emissions that when the exhaust valve would finally open at 7,500rpm in the mid-range the bike would pick up 50(!) horsepower by 9,500RPM….. It was hard to ride like that (if maybe a bit… Exciting…), which is what lead to the reflash and exhaust.

I was more interested in fixing the drivability issues than chasing power numbers, but it really made a difference in peak power as well. The stock ECU flash doesn’t allow more than 80% throttle, which helps explain how the bike went from 163hp at the tire to 192 when all the mods were done. The bike is hugely improved with anything to do with throttle and power delivery.

For those that don’t know, Geometry is a little different than a standard R1 because the Ohlins electronic shock is longer than the Yamaha unit and the rear tire is larger in diameter as it is a 200 section. The R1M has a better front end feel for it, so if you are a rider that has to feel what the front tire is doing, this is your bike. Speaking of electronic suspension, I have been pretty happy with how Yamaha set this up and use their profiles for the “Fun Stuff” and have my own setting for “I’ve been on this for 4 hours-I’m sore, just get me home”. I can’t say that the suspension has ever left me wishing for something different. Softer maybe, but that’s just a few buttons away.

The rider aids are still very good by industry norms. You rarely feel them in action but can see them in your datalogger data (the bike has a WIFI router you connect to with an app, it’s a 20 channel logger with everything from water temperature to lean angle, front and rear wheel speeds, gear, throttle position, throttle body position etc.) and it’s all overlayed with GPS on a satellite map so you can find out what happened on your favorite corner when you get home later. I would definitely recommend the eventual buyer learn to lean on the electronics-I became a much better and faster rider this way on all of my bikes after a season or two on this one.

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There is not much to disclose as far as damage or wear and tear on the bike-rock chips that are consistent with a bike ridden for almost 13k miles. The bike has never been crashed, but dropped once by my dad in the driveway and repaired. One mirror was replaced after a bird strike(still functional,it will go with the bike), the bird came out worse in the deal. This is a bike a “Rider” you can be proud to have at a bike night and thrill you on your favorite roads-it is literally 90% of the bike a new Panigale V4S is at 1/3 the price and would make an excellent trackday bike for someone looking to step up into something really fast with forgiving rider aids.

I’m sad to see it go and hope a new owner will appreciate it as much as I have. As you might imagine, I’m not cool with letting strangers test ride a 200hp superbike, but I’m happy to ride it around for you. If you have full cash in (my) hand, riding gear, and an endorsement I may make an exception on a case-by-case basis. Nothing personal, but I don’t know you and it’s a really serious bike.

The bike has a clear, clean title and I need $14,250 for it.

Please text any questions or to arrange a call:
(734) 516 – 1557 Central Time

RSBFS
Clearly Dave cares about his bikes and as he says, “This bike has no issues and just needs a rider.”

When it came out, this bike was marketed as a track-ready superbike for the data generation. Dave speaks to this when he mentioned that the data he collected from riding this bike helped him become a better rider.

According to MC News down-under, “The original Yamaha YZF-R1 design focus was primarily for the street, however that’s all changed for 2015 with Yamaha’s Engineer’s instructed to design a bike mainly for the track.

A team of 50 Design Engineers worked closely with Yamaha’s MotoGP team and test riders from divisions in Japan, Europe and the US, including Valentino Rossi and US rider Josh Hayes, to come up with perhaps the most technologically advanced electronics on a motorcycle ever made available to the riding public……

Yamaha Motor Europe Chief Test rider Jeffry de Vries gives us some insight: “It’s so important to get the base bike right and we focused a lot on the bike without electronics. The 1st prototype in 2011 was an R6 with an R1 engine.”

Jeffry, a 100+ World superbike veteran, is a key guy to analyze the bike on the track and communicate with Yamaha’s Engineers.”

If you are interested in this great combination of bike engineering and electronics, give Dave a call. He’d like to see the new owner be a fellow-enthusiast that will thoroughly enjoy it.