R7 SENDS MCN INTO A FRENZY

● The first test of the R7 ● News of a better FireBlade ● Mackenzie’s like a virgin MCN were partying like it was 1999 (it was) and getting very hot under the collar about our first ride on Yamaha’s much-touted new YZF-R7 – the bike that would replace the long-in-the-tooth YZF750 as their homologation hotshot for World and British Superbike action. MCN’s Andy Ibbott was the man in the saddle for a six-page exclusive first ride, kicking off proceedings with: “This bike is not comfortable, it won’t do more than 100 miles on a tank of fuel and there’s no place for a pillion – but I don’t give a monkey’s.” Ibbott was on location at Spain’s Jerez track and the bike he was riding wasn’t the £20,000 base…

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MCN (Digital) - 1 Issue, 26 March 2025

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