Looking Back at What Made the Air-Cooled Big Naked Yamaha XJR1200 So Special

I have the impression well-kept units are getting pretty pricey in the current used market—wonder if that's accurate.

Big nakeds like this are heavy, but with all that power in reserve, long-distance cruising must have been comfortable.

A symbol of the golden age of air-cooled big nakeds—a genre that could never be built again under today's regulations.

The story of the development team endlessly riding real units while building it really conveys the passion behind development back then.

The presence of that air-cooled inline-four on the XJR1200—even looking at it now, in the Reiwa era, it has a different kind of aura.