The concept that Yamaha shall be bringing out a sports activities bike based mostly on the mega-success that’s the MT-07 is admittedly beginning to acquire traction in 2021. Main publishing homes from throughout the globe are all pointing to a faired bike arriving with the CP2 engine at its coronary heart, within the not too distant future.

And it appears to make extra sense than ever proper now. With Yamaha recently discontinuing the R6 for street use, it’s now solely accessible as a observe day/race machine, and the Aprilia RS660 displaying simply how good a parallel-twin engine in a sports activities bike will be; all indicators level to Yamaha following swimsuit.

What may the Yamaha R7 appear like?

For starters, the tubular metal body of the bike above would virtually definitely need to go. It’s light-weight, super-strong, and lovely to take a look at, nevertheless it’s additionally costly and time-consuming to make. The body of the R7 will virtually definitely be a really shut relative of the road-going MT-07. The telescopic forks of the present king of the mid-weight bare class would doubtless be ditched, with the entrance finish from the now track-only R6 trying like the most effective match for the machine.

The race bike constructed by AP MotoArts above even manages to get away with utilizing the MT-07’s swingarm, so it’d make sense for Yamaha to observe swimsuit on that entrance too.

The engine additionally wouldn’t want an excessive amount of tickling to make it work, with the bikes that race within the AMA utilizing this platform solely placing out round 80bhp. That’s 10bhp or so down on the RS660, however with this sort of bike, the facility is barely a part of the story.

If Yamaha have been to construct a road-going sports activities bike on the MT-07 platform, they might firstly need it to be the most effective road-going sports activities bike they will construct. For that you really want entry to as a lot torque as attainable, wherever within the rev-range. And that may be a trait that the MT-07’s CP2 powerplant has in abundance.

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