Review: My Yamaha R1 50th anniversary edition

The superbike has now clocked 28,000 km on the odo.

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Got my mind blown away today. Not gonna lie, haven't felt so good looking at a machine this much. Finally got to see the R1 in all its glory, felt like a completely new factory fresh bike.

Ok ok, let me just let the pic do the talking.

Channelling my inner Tony Montana for this one. 'The eyes chico they never lie!'

Here are a few more under the well-lit shop light.

Now, this is something that just blew me away, the little detail that makes a world of difference.

Now here are a few while she is out and about outside in the real world.

P.s: Don't mind the lack of jacket/boots/gloves. This was for some client portfolio work for the shop's social accounts. We had gone there to inspect the work in Car. We have dressed for the ride appropriately while taking her back home.

Something about the next 2 pics just makes me happy beyond measure.

So this is another change that we had decided to do, Both the Yamaha and Yamalube stickers had gotten damaged when the bike was dropped by me almost a year back. So finally had decided to get new stickers done and applied. But something about the Yamalube sticker just didn't sit right. So ultimately we made the decision to get rid of it and I think the result speaks for itself.

Now it is not all sunshine and rainbows even in this post. As I had mentioned right at the beginning of this thread, the bike had been dropped once while in the previous owner's hands and it had left some damage on the front headlight mask panel and the rear panel, both on the right side. While the damage was never apparent in pics or looking from a distance the patchwork that was done on the bike left a lot to be desired for.

While I was aware that buffing the panels to get the paint correction process done the bad patchwork would surface up in an ugly way but I was totally ok with it because honestly, I prefer it the way it looks now rather than how it was before in those parts.

The plan always was for these panels to get replaced, but honestly, over the past few months I have been having 2nd thought and to actually try and get this fixed and paint matched to the best way it can be done should be the first attempt and that is what I will be doing next. Not to mention a bill of almost 50k just for these 2 panels and the wait time for Yamaha OEM parts nowadays have also given this though more time to cement itself in my mind. Will keep you guys updated throughout that process also.

So yeah, that's about it for the TLC results.

Oh btw, the R1 hit another Milestone on the ODO. She's 28k strong now.

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