The Royal Star is certainly not a bike to mess with. Equippedwith one of the finest and smoothest V-4 engines, tuned todeliver massive torque from low revs through one of the sweetestgearboxes you'll ever use, this basically is the bike Harley should have been building during the last 95 years!
Motorcycle Cruiser magazine road test of Yamaha Road Star.
...Probably because of its relaxed, low-rpm gait, the engine didn't seem to be pulling that hard...
Motorcycle Cruiser magazine
...The move to a high-performance chassis continues with 41mm upside-down Kayaba fork legs lifted from the R1 sportbike with different rates and all the adjustments except...
Yamaha had scheduled the Road Star Warrior to go on sale in 2002. It was billed as a new type of cruiser, with a stronger emphasis on performance and handling, but it was passed over because Yamaha Europe already had a very strong and successful cruiser line-up.
