Yamaha YZF-R3 long term review: After 3,780km and 7 months

Life has been a bit busy at OD, so the R3 hasn’t been seeing as much action as I’d like it to. But since my last update, I’ve managed to have a small incident on the bike. And thanks to that the front left fairing had some scratches on it and the clutch lever had snapped off at the end. I wouldn’t have minded just having the lever replaced, but the guys at Yamaha wanted the bike looking spic and span, so it went off to have the fairing replaced.

The bike has come back and other than some delays due to parts availability, the…