The Yamaha YZF-R1 Providing Revolutionary Industrial Product Design

We are constantly evolving and because of this we are always designing and improving products that came before. One example of this is the new Yamaha YZF-R1. It has revolutionised the industry and left its rival manufacturers scratching their heads about what to do with their new releases.
The YZF-R1 really was a revolution in industrial product design. It took what people expected from a motorcycle and threw it on its head. Utilising technology from their MotoGP project which many assumed was too expensive to be used on a production based motorcycle.
One of the key factors in the success of the Yamaha YZF-R1 was the cross-plane crankshaft which provides the bike with an uneven firing order, which is similar but not the same as a big bang configuration utilized on the Yamaha M1 motorbike in MotoGP. It was a huge step outside of the box when it came to industrial product design. No manufacturer had attempted to put this type of technology on a 4 cylinder motorcycle before. The benefit of having this industrial product design is that the output of power received at the rear wheel would more closely mimic that of a twin cylinder motorcycle like a Ducati.
To someone who doesn't know much about motorcycles, this might all seem like a lot of technical speak and you might be sitting there asking yourself what benefit is this going to have for me. Well to understand that we have to go back to the configuration of the engine. On a twin cylinder motorcycle there gap between the pulses of the cylinders is spaced further apart, bearing in mind we are talking about fractions of a second here. These longer gaps in the firing order allow the rear wheel to gain extra traction and in that sense makes the bit more tractable out of corners. If a bike has more traction then it can accelerate earlier out of the corners and therefore gain an advantage. It should in theory also make it more forgiven that a normal screaming four. Now that is revolutionary industrial product design and thinking outside of the box.