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Yamaha RI VS. Honda CBR 1000

Yamaha has dragged out all the halts with a ground-up re-do of its iconic literbike. New morsels abound, encompassing its fashioning, chassis and, most intriguingly, a MotoGP-derived blasting alignment of its innovative engine.

In the peak class of roadracing, engineers have assaulted with harnessing the gigantic allowances of power and getting it to the ground efficiently. In 2004, Yamaha's GP engineers presented an uneven blasting gap for its inline four-cylinder M1 with what's called a cross-plane crankshaft.

Instead of the two outside and two inward pistons increasing and dropping simultaneously, the R1's motor has one-by-one cylinders ...