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Classic Scrap - 1991 Yamaha FZR1000R EXUP Vs Suzuki GSX-R1100
By Jim Bowen on 30/04/2010 15:00:50
For many, these are still the two greatest superbikes ever built. Suzuki's legendary GSX- R1100 went head-to-head with Yamaha's EXUP for years, and in 1991 the two were at the top of their game
Click to read: Yamaha FZR1000R EXUP owners reviewsClick to read: Suzuki GSX-R1100 owners reviewsIn the days before fuel injection and comedy dry n the days before fuel injection and comedy dry weight claims, we were feasting on the new breed
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Which era was the best?
By John Hogan on 29/11/2010 09:20:57
Everyone reckons their generation of biking was the best. From the 1960s when rockers ruled to the 1990s when Exups and Blades did battle on the roads, we ask the bikers who were there about the Golden Age
Rose-tinted spectacles have got a lot to answer for. Everything was great fifteen years ago and now it’s rubbish. This has undoubtedly got more to do with the fact we were all a decade younger ten years ago – more girls, less wrinkles, no worries – than any degradation of quality...
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First Ride: 2006 Yamaha Midnight Star
By Roland Brown on 13/05/2008 23:21:25
Packing the biggest and most powerful Yamaha cruiser engine yet, plus a bag of styling cues lifted from the 1930s, the Midnight Star is bristling with modern technology. It's even got an EXUP valve.
-twin, is fuel-injected and breathes out via the cruising world's first EXUP valve. The frame and swingarm are made from aluminium, not wrought iron.This bike is every bit a laid-back cruiser, though. Despite twin balancer shafts the big V-twin lump judders
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Motorcycle Radar: 1991
By Roland Brown on 19/11/2010 16:11:30
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1991
it was cheap, at a quid under £4,000.V-MAX SNIPPEDFinally, Yamaha UK began selling the V-Max, six years after the mighty 140bhp V4’s launch in the States. It cost less than £7,000, same as the FZR1000 EXUP. Only problem was that Yamaha bottled it and cut
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First Look: 2009 Yamaha XJR1300
By Visordown News on 18/12/2008 09:11:24
XJR battles on into 2009 with updates and new paint schemes
New fuel injection and EXUP valve for 2009 XJRFOLLOWING HOT on the heels of the Japan-only Kawasaki ZRX1200 that was announced by the factory last week, this is the newly-revised 2009 Yamaha XJR1300.Cosmetically there are only tweaks and different
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Niall's Spin: YZF1000R Thunderace
By Niall Mackenzie on 28/09/2010 14:54:40
Even though it never matched the best sports bikes of the day, there are plenty of good reasons why you should give it at least a test ride.
it's spot-on. Brakes should be excellent too, unless they're seized.Design wise it's not a million miles from a FZR1000EXUP engine in a YZF750 frame - basically a parts bin special and a stop-gap until Yamaha launched the R1 in 1998. So the last
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To The Crusher - Yamaha GTS1000A
By on 13/08/2008 12:17:55
The GTS1000A was supposed to be an early '90s sports-touring flagship for Yamaha.
, slipstreaming, flat-out.So the GTS sounded like a bike from heaven, but it wasn't. It featured a de-tuned FZR1000 EXUP motor, which was strangled to just 100bhp in anticipation of a blanket Euro law which never happened. It also had fuel-injection, a catalyser
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BMW K1300S - more details emerge
By Visordown News on 03/10/2008 10:31:36
New BMW expected to make its debut at Cologne Motorcycle Show in Germany
.It’s motor will be a evolution of the current K 1200, taken to nearly 1300cc with apparently 165bhp on tap.There are rumours of a new EXUP-style exhaust valve system being used on the new bike too alongside an all new clutch and gearbox specifically designed
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Bike Icon: Yamaha FZR750R OW01
By Harriet Ridley on 13/09/2010 16:24:04
Where Honda led, others followed. Enter Yamaha's wannabe RC30-beater, the OW01
, 20 valves in total), but with a difference - it was built for the race track. The pistons only had two rings, the con-rods were made of titanium, it had a close ratio gearbox, a four-butterfly EXUP valve and flat-slide carbs. This was no road bike
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Motorcycle Radar: 1989
By Roland Brown on 18/11/2010 16:25:31
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1989
’s British 500cc Grand Prix, finally finishing fourth after his factory Yam ran low on fuel near the end.EXUP SEX-UPYamaha also had an outstanding revamped model in 1989, though the FZR1000’s need was nowhere near as urgent as the 851’s. Two years after its
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