Yes, there are two parallel-twin bikes on this year’s supersports listing. After the first corner, you’ll see exactly what we mean, the way that the bike grips as you lean, and eagerly scrambles out with the CP2 engine barking out its note as you roll on the throttle and kick up a gear. If you don’t believe us, we encourage you to take a trip to your local Yamaha dealership and take one out for a test ride. This allowed them to make the bike lighter, slimmer, more aerodynamic, and as a result, even more flickable and agile than the R6 it replaced. After years of producing the YZF-R6, Yamaha decided that it would be a lot more fun to put out a twin-powered supersport to fulfill the homologation requirements to race in the new category. MotoAmerica racing noticed that there was a significant lack of top-tier twins racing around the world, and created the SuperTwins category to rectify that. It may only have 106 HP from the 749cc CP2 crossplane parallel-twin, but the YZF-R7 is a full-spec racing homologation model. What’s this? A parallel-twin on a supersports listing?!? Yes, and let us tell you why in one concise paragraph.
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