Choosing between naked and sport bikes used to be a simple matter of which style you preferred. Back in the late 1990s, motorcycle manufacturers did little more than omit the body panels on their sport bikes to create naked versions. Yamaha followed other brands into the naked bike movement, even making a 50cc motorcycle, the RZ50, in 1998. The FZ1 Fazer, borrowing an engine design from the R1, is credited as Yamaha’s first big naked bike. The FZ1 laid
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