Yamaha Motor Europe has clarified how the R1 will continue in Europe beyond its discontinuation as a road bike.
As was already stated by Yamaha Racingthe R1 will continue to be built as a track motorcycle only after its European production as a road bike has been discontinued, which will happen next year.
At the time of the initial announcement of the discontinuation of the R1 as a road bike, Yamaha made specific mention of the upcoming Euro5+ emissions regulation, which, as YME confirmed in a statement, means that the production of the R1 as a street-legal model will continue, worldwide, for markets outside of Europe. Continued global production also means a continuation of R1’s development program.
In its statement, Yamaha Motor Europe also admits the additional reason for the continuation of the R1 as a road-legal model in Europe, which is the demand of customers. “In line with changing demand and customer needs,” says YME, “Yamaha Motor Europe has made the decision that the future of its target track Supersport models will be dedicated solely to following use by in 2025”.
By making the R1 track only, YME says, there will be “more opportunities for customers to access performance-enhancing GYTR parts”, which are available from Yamaha GYTR Pro Shops, of which there are several across Europe, all that work. by the same people who ride official Yamaha motorcycles WorldSBK. In the UK, for example, Crescent Motorcycles, who run the Pata Prometeon Yamaha WorldSBK factory team, run a GYTR Pro Shop, while in Italy the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli hosts a GYTR Pro Shop run by the GYTR GRT Yamaha team WorldSBK. .
In what YME calls an “emphasis” of its commitment to the supersport category, it has also announced the 2024 Yamaha Racing Experience event, scheduled for the Circuito de Jerez-Angel Nieto on July 3-4. Owners of the track-only Yamaha R1 GYTR PRO 25th Anniversary motorcycle and the 2024 Yamaha R1M are invited to the home of the Spanish Grand Prix for free, for a day of riding with official Yamaha riders, including Jonathan Rea and Andrea Locatelli, as well as nine-time Grand Prix World Champion Valentino Rossi, who also owns an R1 GYTR.
Yamaha Motor Europe’s announcement follows news earlier this year that the Yamaha R1 will be discontinued from 2025.
The move means Yamaha will follow Suzuki in a future 1,000cc without a sports bike since Suzuki discontinued the GSX-R1000R at the end of 2022.
An official statement from Yamaha UK, released at the time of the announcement, read:
“Yamaha Motor Group, has taken the decision not to develop an EU5+ version of the R1 or R1M instead of concentrating on other mid-term business and product strategies that will provide future opportunities..'”
As shocking as the news is, it wasn’t a big surprise to hear, and what we can see is that manufacturers are moving away from premium bikes, high value but low volume, and investing in higher volume areas of the market And while this sounds like the axis is about to fall on the model, it won’t be for a while.
For existing models, the cut-off for the sale of bikes that are not Euro5+ compatible will be 2025. Euro6, meanwhile, is not expected to arrive until much later in the decade.
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