There’s an old joke that we’re always a few months behind the Americans when it comes to the latest rends and in the case of Yamaha’s R7, that’s literally the case. The exciting new middleweight twin has already been handed over to our US cousins for a good track thrashing, whereas us Brits will have to wait until August to throw a leg over it. Luckily for you there’s a few of us here that can read American, so we’ve taken out all the Zs, put the ‘i’ back into aluminium and distilled their thoughts here to keep us going until we get to wring the neck of one ourselves. In short, they think it’s rather good.
Writing for Cycleworld, Michael Gilbert seems most impressed by the chassis, saying it…