Will the Yamaha FZ-07 take over LWT?

Will it? Looks pretty decent on paper and is pretty light in comparison.

 

Likely so, but I'm not gonna be the first to spend the $7K to buy it and 2-3 more to prep it to find out.

 

I'm sure some are already prepped and tested, but nobody's showing their cards just yet.

 

what race body is there?

or in English...who makes race plastics for it?

 

No

 

Didnt they say the ninja 650 would take over the sv? Dont see many out there on the grids.

 

AP Moto Arts in Cali has one they are building into a race bike. Dyno runs on stock FZ07s show it's down quite a bit compared to a stock 2nd gen SV. It will be hard to tell until someone does a full SS build on one. Yamaha is showing interest in the bike by offering contingency in dirt tracking. If they offer a good road racing contingency, some will buy them to chase the $$.

 

no rr contingency. the 2015 yamaha contingency is up on their site. r1,r6, and r3

 

Good to see contingency for R3. 2015 Yamaha Contngency:

http://www.yamahamotorsports.com/sport/racing/2015_RoadRace_Contingency.aspx

 

Short answer: NO

 

How would you know? I heard you dont even race real man bikes anymore.

 

I prefer to race girly bikes....

 

I tracked my FZ a couple of weeks ago. It felt great, but it definitely needs a lot of work to compete against a well-built SV.

I've already seen one race with our local club with clip-on style bars, R6 front end, Penske shock, case guards, rearsets, belly pan. It held up really well in a low-side

 

I'm curious to see how clip ons would work with the big fake air scoops on the side of the tank. Doesn't look like there's much room.

 

Good enough to crash it apparently.

 

I believe they had risers. I took a few photos, but they are on an old phone that I don't have access to right now.

 

How is the gearing on the fz-07? doesn't it have a tall (overdrive) 6th gear? I think I read that somewhere?

 

Initial reports from my friends who tried this AP MotoArts-built FZ-07 out is that it was pretty impressive.







So, after 7 years on SV's, I'm gonna take the plunge and buy one of these FZ-07's, and then have AP MotoArts build it for me.

 

HP? Isn't it a Inline twin?