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The Yamaha YZF 1000 ThunderAce

The R1 is undoubtably the Yamaha sportsbike flagship,and far as sports riding goes is argueably the best in it's class. But what if your looking for something you can tour on as well? The ThunderAce has the same size motor but put into a more practical frame for sportstouring. The bike below is owned by Linda and she although she ride rings around quite a few of us, still professes she is only learning how to ride.

Linda lives out on the hinterland west of Mackay where she works as a technician for a large coal mining company. Most weekends she rides the two and half hours or so into town to ride with the group and paint the town red.


Linda took the bike down to Phillip Island earlier in the year for the Australian round of the World Superbike Championships. That folks is at least a 8000km round trip and the bike didnt miss a beat the whole way there and back. So not only is this bike great to tour on, but gives guttsy performance as well. I can even tell you a story about a ThunderAce dragging off a R1 down the quarter mile. It's all about power to the ground peoples and keeping that front wheel on the ground.

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