WE WANTED TO KNOW A BIT MORE, SO WE ASKED GLYN...
We wanted to know a bit more, so we asked Glyn... What are your future plans with this bike? Any more upgrades? “With the Kit YEC electronics, there is room to add two potentiometers for data collection... I’m thinking front suspension and front brake pots as they would help me with the set-up – I’m going to look into that over winter. If we are to go down the data route, I might stick an I2M dash on it as well, you never know... as the bike develops and I get better with it, then I think I’ll end up getting one. I’ve now got Mick Shanley looking after the suspension, so the bike’s been back in for a spring change and a bit of personal tweaking, and that seems to be ever-evolving.”
Why Yamaha? Is it the right bike for you?
“Going back to when I first got involved with trackdays, I was running R7s and I’ve always just had a bit of a tendency to go towards Yamahas ever since. They’ve always just seemed to work for me. I’ve ridden other things, but they don’t seem to float my boat. With the Yams, they are almost twin-like in the way they ride; the noise, the gruntiness, the way they come out the corners and the way they go into corners... I just love the bike.”
Is it easy to maintain?
“The main job is changing the oil and oil filter, which I do mainly at the trackside in between trackdays. I change the oil on a maximum of three trackdays and the filter every second oil change, and I’m running it on Silkolene Pro 4. Other than that, it’s just general cleaning, and nut and bolting. I do like to give the calipers a proper strip clean with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush every couple of trackdays, as well. “Mechanically-wise, I’ve never had any bother with the R1s. I guess that’s one of the advantages of having two bikes. I try and split the load between the two of them, so it keeps the wear down throughout the year. I send them back to Kev through the winter each year for a refresh. I’m doing about 20 European trackdays per year and a few UK days that includes a lot of instructing, so I am racking the mileage up on them both.”