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 ...

For fans of motorcycle racing, the name Toprak Razgatlioglu needs little introduction. For the rest, it’s enough to say the Turk is the apprentice of the most successful rider in World Supersport 600 ...

There are far fewer established bike makers in this world than automakers. In some sense, that means the competition between them is a lot more fierce, in all aspects of their existence, from sales to ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

The older you get, the faster time goes. It’s hard to believe that the Yamaha YZF-R1, the motorcycle that revolutionized the superbike category, is now a quarter-century old. The original R1, circa ...

Luke started working as a Freelance Writer for HotCars in 2020. After three years, he moved to a more permanent role with the TopSpeed motorcycle content team as a Journalist. The 2015 YZF-R1 was by ...