February 2008 - Romec Frulli, United Kingdom

France 2007 Hi, my name is Romec and I live in United Kingdom. This is my story about me and my 2007 YZF-R1 . This is my second R1, I had a brand new 2005 model that did over 9k miles in 18 months.

I ride around Europe quiet a bit with trips to the LeMans 24hr bike race to visiting relatives in Italy.

I collected my 2007 R1 on the 3rd March 2007 and gently ran her in, before going to LeMans in April. Twelve of us went on an assortment of machines, but the 2007 R1 proved to be the most comfortable, fasteset and best handling.

In May we all rode to the Monte Blanc via the Millau bridge, again the R1 proved to be the bike to own.

Just wished I had discovered the R1 back in 98, would have done a lot more miles!!!!

December 2007 - Graham Down, United Kingdom

So so badly want them available I want to ride from London to Kenya via South Africa, I need an adventure bike for this.

With few good choices and nothing reasonably new, I brought an old ('89) XT 600 Tenere. I have modi...