Complete history of the Yamaha R6/YZF-R6 sportbike on TMW

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Complete history of the Yamaha R6/YZF-R6 sportbike on TMW

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Spent quite a few hours putting together the complete history of the Yamaha R6/YZF-R6 sportbike:

Another iconic motorcycle joins our Motorcycle Model Timeline Guide. For 12 years the Yamaha R6 has been a record breaker, Follow it's hisotry from 1999 to now: TMW's Model Timeline Guide

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The Yamaha R6/YZF-R6, R6S/YZF-R6S, Special R6 Limited Editions
• Page 1 - Yamaha R6/YZF-R6 Model History Guide - Development
• Page 2 - 1999 to 2000 - The First Yamaha R6/YZF-R6
• Page 3 - 2001 to 2002 - The top class supersport machine
• Page 4 - 2003 to 2004 - State of the art in 600cc supersport
• Page 5 - 2005 - R6/YZF-R6: Inspired by the racetrack
• Page 6 - 2006 to 2007 - Big step forward; completely new R6/YZF-R6
• Page 7 - 2008 to 2009 - Yamaha R6/YZF-R6: Significant refinements
• Page 8 - 2010 to 2011 - Better, stronger, faster. 124hp

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Re: Complete history of the Yamaha R6/YZF-R6 sportbike on TMW

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thank you for sharing, this is gold. I have read somewhere (mototech) that Yamaha is going to discontinue the street version of the Yamaha R6 and replace it with a track-only variant. I hope they don't do this as the current R7 is not a worthy replacement for the R6. Also, Yamaha has launched all the updated versions of bikes from the R series and MT but they did not update the R6 for this year. I hope they don't pull the plug on the Yamaha R6.
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The motorcycle featured Yamaha's completely new engine design capable of producing over 108 hp (81 kW) while stationaryWalgreenslistens.

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Thanks for the info i will try to figure it out for more.

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