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Hey guys new here from St helens :), im picking up my first yamaha 2000 r1 in a few days its been street fightered due to a crash back in 2001, it has 26k on clock and will be posting pics soon :D this forum looks really nice :), i was torn between an r1 and a gsxr but decided to go for a better built bike overall


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Welcome in mate, look forward to the pics!

You'll be best mates with Jompy the moderator on here once he sees this post as he has a street fightered R1 too!! :lol:
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Welcome in buddy.
Jompy will even forgive you for considering the gixxer.
Enjoy the forum. There’ll be loads for you here.
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Another streetfighter !!! JOMPY!!!!!!!!!!
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Welcome in Mark
Nothing at all with an early R1 fighter 👍
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Welcome to the forum Mark, I don’t think you will be disappointed with your choice. I hope you realise you have just become Jompy’s (aka monkey face) best mate. His idea of modding a bike is to remove all fairings and fit a wooden too box..... still it takes all kinds I suppose, but we let him off because :

1. He is our famous resident primate, star of the track and the TV

2. He is the boss and he can ban us at the twiddle of his tool....

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This is a great forum and peeps are always willing to help each other out.

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Hi and welcome Mark, you have obviously met our moderator, you should be very popular having a street fighter :clap:
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hey guys thank you for the warm welcome :) haha jompy your bike looks amazing :D i was never really a fan of a street fighters but these R1s work so well and look amazing :D im gonna have a look to see if i can find more info and pics of your bike on the forum is does look awesome :D
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Golly gosh... we now have two people on this forum, well one person plus primate, who believe a butchered R1 ... or half one (as we call them on here) looks beautiful.... each to their own.. lol

Being serious now, bikes are bikes and a half one is still an R1... just without its clothes .... and yes, they do look stunning


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Steve R1 wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:28 pm Golly gosh... we now have two people on this forum, well one person plus primate, who believe a butchered R1 ... or half one (as we call them on here) looks beautiful.... each to their own.. lol

Being serious now, bikes are bikes and a half one is still an R1... just without its clothes .... and yes, they do look stunning Image


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Theres more than that if you really look , we've had a few streetfighters on here ;)
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yammyfighter wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:20 pm hey guys thank you for the warm welcome :) haha jompy your bike looks amazing :D i was never really a fan of a street fighters but these R1s work so well and look amazing :D im gonna have a look to see if i can find more info and pics of your bike on the forum is does look awesome :D
Thanks bud , to be fair i bought it streetfightered back in 2009 , i first saw it in 2008 i think it was but couldn't afford it but in 2009 i needed a better bike for 2 up and talked my mate in to selling it and i paid over the odd but it was well worth it 👌
To be honest i don't get out on it much these days but no way am i selling it .
I'll be expecting to see lots of pics of your when you get it 👍
This is how it was when i first bought it , didn't realise one of the forks was bent and neither did my mate that had owned it for a couple of years
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gotta admit jompy that bike suits you :D, im used to riding full fairing sport bikes or drz400s how will it feel riding the r1 which has been street fightered, ? the one im buying tomorrow was written off in 2001 but has been on the road ever since it only has 26k on the clock
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yammyfighter wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:15 pm gotta admit jompy that bike suits you :D, im used to riding full fairing sport bikes or drz400s how will it feel riding the r1 which has been street fightered, ? the one im buying tomorrow was written off in 2001 but has been on the road ever since it only has 26k on the clock
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then i got a KTM Duke II , a mate said the Half-One as the guys call it on here was like riding the Duke II but on steroids :lol: they weren't far wrong , i've never looked back even when the engine blew
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Mark whats your biking history ?
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i started on a cg125 and from there went to a cbr600 for a while, then a kawasaki zx9r b1 which weighed the moon lol, then to a drz400 then after getting pulled because for some reason the police didn't beleive me that the bike wheelies on its own lol, so now coming back into sport bikes
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yammyfighter wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:18 pm i started on a cg125 and from there went to a cbr600 for a while, then a kawasaki zx9r b1 which weighed the moon lol, then to a drz400 then after getting pulled because for some reason the police didn't beleive me that the bike wheelies on its own lol, so now coming back into sport bikes
Sweet , yeah the KTM used to do that and the R1 , copper didn't believe me about the R1 either after i'd gone past his unmarked car :lol:
if you get an early R1 you'll love it , the 5jj has a better midrange than the 4xv but the seat has been altered to keep the rider forward wieght over the front more , i think all it is , is a shorter seat :lol:
The odd person goes on about how they also tamed the 5jj with longer gears for first and maybe second gears which from what i've read is bollocks .
When you ride an early R1 it sould be smooth from pull off all the way through the gears pulling cleanly , mine has -1 front sprocket and going at a steady pace its smooth and pulls nicely up to 5000rpm after that and up to around 8,500 it's nippy and fun but as you hit 8,500 to 9000 rpm it's a bit like hitting the power band on a 2 stroke although this is felt slightly more on the 4xv as the 5jj has the extra midrange which for the road is great 👍
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haha lmao did u get pulled by the unmarked car ? as thats what pulled me lmao, honestly i am looking forward to getting an R1 my friend has just bought an 08 version and i can't sadly save up 5k that fast i have just over £2k to spend on a nice one if truth be told.

jompy which R1 engine do you prefer out of them you have ridden ? :D
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yammyfighter wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:13 pm haha lmao did u get pulled by the unmarked car ? as thats what pulled me lmao, honestly i am looking forward to getting an R1 my friend has just bought an 08 version and i can't sadly save up 5k that fast i have just over £2k to spend on a nice one if truth be told.

jompy which R1 engine do you prefer out of them you have ridden ? :D
Yes he nicked me :lol: he said why did you pull the wheelie and I replied I didn't mean too and he said come off it yes you did so rather than explaining all about sports bikes and the fact I was in the wrong gear I just ate loads of humble pie in stead and to be fair he was sound 👍
To be honest I've only ridden the 4xv and there's not a lot of difference other than I believe on the 5jj they stop you from getting so far back on the seat .
I now have a 5jj engine in mine but the big difference is the carbs , you get more mid range with the 5jj carbs 👍
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jompy wrote:
yammyfighter wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:13 pm haha lmao did u get pulled by the unmarked car ? as thats what pulled me lmao, honestly i am looking forward to getting an R1 my friend has just bought an 08 version and i can't sadly save up 5k that fast i have just over £2k to spend on a nice one if truth be told.

jompy which R1 engine do you prefer out of them you have ridden ? :D
Yes he nicked me Image he said why did you pull the wheelie and I replied I didn't mean too and he said come off it yes you did so rather than explaining all about sports bikes and the fact I was in the wrong gear I just ate loads of humble pie in stead and to be fair he was sound Image
To be honest I've only ridden the 4xv and there's not a lot of difference other than I believe on the 5jj they stop you from getting so far back on the seat .
I now have a 5jj engine in mine but the big difference is the carbs , you get more mid range with the 5jj carbs Image
And the only difference between the carbs is the pilot jets. They are #15 in the 5jj vs 17.5 in the 4xv. And does it make a difference!

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