2001 Yamaha YZF-R1 For Sale on eBay!
Price: $7,995.00
Make: Yamaha
Model: YZ-FR1 YZF-R1
Mileage: 12,592
The good- It’s an early model YZ-FR1 YZF-R1 that looks to be in pretty good shape with good miles.
The bad- I’d love to see some better pictures- especially from a dealer that put money in a spiffy backdrop. I’d also like to read a little more about it
From the listing:
The machine that has won nearly every open class accolade since its introduction.
No really, that’s all it says- LOL!
What we know:
-Carburetors
-150HP
-80 pd ft of torque
-170 mph top speed
-390ish pound dry weight
-Titanium exhaust canister
-It looks bad ass sitting still
Maybe these sit well with me because I regret a bad decision in 98′ or maybe they’re just awesome machines that can still hang with today’s offerings. What say you?
Are you a Blue R1 person or a Red & White R1 person? Financial Doug is a Red and White R1 guy, but Emotional Doug is a Blue R1 guy. Now all I have to do is to persuade my wife in to believing I “need” this. You know, for mental health.
Okay, in all fairness, I’ve had a little bit of fun at the sellers expense with the (lack of) pictures, information and title. I suspect the seller will get a little more action after this posting, but they’d also receive more interest if their eBay listing title was correct. I stumbled across this one by scrolling through “Yamaha” listings AFTER I didn’t see it with an “R1” search due to it being listed as YZ-FR1 versus YZF-R1.
Anyway, enough nit-picking. It’s a kick ass machine and looks to be ready to roll . . . or are the dark pictures hiding something? Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Check out this Blue Bad MoFo here!
Cheers,
dd
Just picked up a 2000 model myself about 2 years prior to the Covid inflation to go along with my ’98 and ’03. Only 1500 miles on it and nearly perfect. Personally I think the 00/01 models were the best of the era to ride and in looks. Hope to see these continue to go up in value like the CBR 900s have.
Fun fact the tzr250 3xv was designed by the same guy who did the R1. Ever notice how the first gen R1 model code was 4xv.
Awesome I never knew that.
That’s a cool tidbit. Thx!
Blue guy here. Was at a trackday this past weekend. He has an earlier R1 model. I was marveling at the design of all the pieces. Especially the gear linkage passing through the frame.
Which made me slap my head: how do you convert it to GP-shift as it righteously should be?
If not for carbs and pump gas containing ethanol in it, this ticks the right boxes as a lovely place to spend some time.
An $8,000 R1 with a two pic ad. Wow. ????
There’s a 2000 on a website I frequent in better condition with excellent upgrades for $3900 OBO. GLWS
Oh yeah? That is probably a fairly good deal!
I would sell my very similar condition blue 00 with under 2k miles for $7900…and will include 3 pictures in my ad.
That’s a sweet deal with 3 photos. LOL!
Beautiful bike! I might be more of a red and white guy on the early R1’s. These are getting harder to come by in this condition. The Red and White 98’s are appreciating rapidly . GLWS