THIS is Yamaha's 2015 R1, with more power, less weight and a sophisticated new electronics package. The new version of the flagship sports bike makes a claimed 200hp and weighs 199kg wet, 18hp more and 7kg less than the current model. It gives the new R1 a power-to-weight ratio of more than 1hp/kg and one of the best available in any bike on the market. It's got a new crossplane engine with titanium fracture-split conrods, a 10.5-litre airbox, two-directional fuel injectors and a titanium exhaust. Highlights of the new eletronics package include banking-sensitive traction control and ABS, launch and lift control, power modes and a quick-shifter. A modified chassis features an asymetrical aluminium deltabox for compact dimensions and a short wheel-base. It's got a magnesium sub-frame, aluminium tank and cast magnesium wheels. The fairing design is influenced by Yamaha's M1 MotoGP bike with a central ram air take, according to the firm. Yamaha also unveiled a...
Last week, Pam Bondi tried to make her three-year-long run of bad press come to an end. It did not. That's partly because, when Florida's attorney general finally had a press conference to explain why she took $25,000 in campaign cash from someone she had been asked to investigate, her excuses sounded incredibly lame. And unbelievable. She asked people to believe that, when a committee supporting her campaign took $25,000 from Donald Trump on Sept. 17, 2013, she had no idea that her office had been asked to investigate him. Pam Bondi plays defense Bondi defends against quid pro quo accusations, state Legislature looking at $1.3 billion budget shortfall, Gary Johnson unsure of Aleppo Even though a week earlier, her spokeswoman had told media that Bondi's office was "reviewing" complaints against Trump. And even though, two weeks before that, email records show that Bondi's top staffers – at least nine of them, including her chief of staff and deputy attor...
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