This one is amazing!

This one is amazing!

Oh, it does! I am not gushing about the bike, it just does! Taking cues from its elder siblings, the R1 and the R6, the bike looks sharp and warrants a second look when moving on the road. The arrow-head shaped air vent between the LED lamps up-front makes for an aggressive face along with the sleek headlamps. The fairing itself has been designed nicely and fits very well in the overall scheme of things even though it doesn't go all the way down and leaves the engine slightly exposed. View it in profile, the sculpted fuel tank along with the upswept exhaust gives the bike an edgy look. The good thing is that there is a sense of balance. The design is not overwhelming or busy but at the same time, it is not too simple either that the bike is lost in a sea of two-wheelers on the road. But there is a grouse here! The fit and finish on the bike could have been better. The windscreen on our test bike had already started rattling and then, there are those ugly weld points on the Deltabox frame along with not-so-good plastics on the switchgear. It is slightly surprising because Yamaha models are known to have immaculate fit and finish. To begin with, the bike gets twin-LED headlamps, an LED tail lamp, a fully digital and comprehensive instrumentation console, and an assist and slipper clutch. The R15 model, which is sold in South East Asia, gets upside-down forks along with ABS which the Indian-spec model skips, understandably because costs would go up by a fair bit! We wish Yamaha offered ABS on the new-gen R15, even if as an option because the kind of performance it delivers, ABS should have been standard actually. You also get a USB charger and an array of optional equipment such as a Daytona exhaust and Metzeler rear tyre, all for a cost, of course. But the Metzelers should have been offered on both wheels.