~ Auto Buzz ~: IENATSCH TUESDAY VIDEO: Hot Laps on Millennium Technologies Potent R1 Nick laps Kyle Wyman’s big Yamaha, two days after its podium appearance, and falls in love.
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Tuesday, 22 September 2015
IENATSCH TUESDAY VIDEO: Hot Laps on Millennium Technologies Potent R1 Nick laps Kyle Wyman’s big Yamaha, two days after its podium appearance, and falls in love.
Kyle Wyman on the way to a second- and fourth-place finish last weekend at New Jersey. He added a 1000 Superstock trophy to his seven Harley-Davidson AMA national wins. Two days later, we sampled his Millennium Technologies R1.
It may have been the slobber on my chin that prompted Kyle Wyman to ask, “Wanna ride it?” “Yes. Yes I do.”
Kyle is a lead instructor at Yamaha Champions Riding School, and he had just put his Millennium Technologies' Yamaha R1 on the final MotoAmerica podium of the year at New Jersey Motorsports Park. I had spent time on our stock R1s, and Kyle’s description of how well his Superstock bike rolls around a racetrack had me itching to try it. Six laps later, I understood why Yamaha’s R1 has dominated the 2015 season: Amazing balance and feel, with power that made the NJMP straights shockingly short! Kyle’s team has assembled a package that is immediately rideable, even on 25-lap-old Dunlop slicks. Impressive and enlightening.
Electronic wizardry limits wheelies and tire spin, but the R1 still wanted to pull the front tire during the on-the-throttle direction change from NJMP’s 3B to 3C. Pure fun.
The R1 worked better and better as the pace came up. Initial and final throttle proved lurchy and harsh until increased corning speeds put me in the right rpm. The bike proved limitless in my hands and at my pace. It just plain works, and in Kyle Wyman’s hands it finished second and fourth in the country.
