Thinking about going from Gen1 to a gen 2.. thoughts?

[AyJay]

Yes, and it's also what BMW are doing with the S1000 engine, and the R1200, and actually, the Gen 1 engine was derived from the R1, come to that.


Given Yamaha are putting CP2 and CP3 on the MT zero series bikes, it makes a cross plane Fazer 1000 or 1100 likely, but it's a long time coming. The CP R1 is now 5 years old.


Anyway, whatever comes, I just hope to god they don't give it a tiny tank and no weather protection.


I really like Yamahas for their engineering, so I also hope it's not too difficult to work on. The Gen 1 is a breeze, but maybe modern bikes are simply too complicated (emissions, FI etc) these days for that to be anything more than a pipe dream.