The Yamaha R1 in full carbon — and the aftermarket has done what the factory deliberately left undone. Yamaha's 2026 R1 leaves the factory with MotoGP inspired carbon fibre winglets and a 998cc crossplane CP4 engine producing 200bhp — a platform so well resolved that the case for modification is purely cosmetic. (Torquepedia) Until someone commits to a full carbon treatment. Every panel replaced. Every surface stripped of paint and replaced with exposed weave. The result is a machine that weighs meaningfully less than stock, looks nothing like anything else on the road, and makes the already aggressive R1 silhouette read as something considerably more serious. The crossplane crankshaft — the architecture borrowed directly from the YZR-M1 MotoGP bike — gives the R1 a throttle character and engine note that no other inline-four production superbike produces. The carbon does not change any of that. It just removes every reason to look anywhere else. Would you take full carbon over the s...