Dutch adventure motorcyclist Sjaak Lucassen will take the trip of a lifetime on one of the fastest sportbikes out there. He’ll ride his modified Yamaha YZF-R1 to the North Pole from Anchorage, Alaska.

When Yamaha's "new" YZF-R1 was unveiled at last year's Milan show, everyone wondered how Yoshikazu Koike and his design team-still under the watchful eye of original R1 Design Chief Kunihiko ...

Not many performance motorcycles can stand up to Yamaha's YZF-R1 – especially when adrenaline and racing history are put to the mix. The YZF-R1 has MotoGP DNA with street-tuned manners and boasts a ...

Allyn started writing for TopSpeed in 2015, but has been writing on motorcycle and automotive topics since 2008 for outlets such as eHow, USAToday, and subsidiaries of MotorTrend. Formally trained as ...

The Yamaha YZF-R1 is one of our favorite liter-class motorcycles, primarily because it was a class leader multiple times. There’s the original R1, which took the lessons of the Honda CBR900RR ...