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Rumors of a three-cylinder replacement for Yamaha’s crossplane YZF-R1 started at Intermot last year with an inscrutable exhibit promising new motorcycles with a “crossplane” inline-triple. It was a tease, of course, making us wonder just what the Tuning Fork guys had in mind, and what, exactly, they meant by a “crossplane” triple. Except for a few Laverdas, aren’t they all?
We have it on good authority that when a new R1 comes—probably for ’14, as Yamaha hinted that more new models will be introduced in September—it almost certainly won’t have three-abreast seating. Whether it’s closer to Lorenzo’s daily driver or the current R1 remains to be seen.
And what of the triple? Here it is in the 2014 Yamaha FZ-09, a naked standard to replace the FZ1-derived FZ8. But not to replace the FZ1, which has been largely unchanged since moving into its second generation way back in 2006. Supposedly, the FZ1 will continue into the ’14 model year.
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