Edited sentence: Even today after being in production since 1998 and facing fierce & uninterrupted competition not just from domestic Japanese manufacturers but also Italian manufacturers Ducati & MV Agusta and since 2010 the German manufacturer BMW with their S1000RR, one would assume that the Yamaha YZF-R1 would crumble under the pressure but riders, reviewers and motorcycling enthusiasts consider Yamaha YZF-R1 to be an unrivalled in-line four cylinder superbike ever to be produced.The Yamaha YZF-R1 is considered one of the greatest motorcycles of the nineties, with Honda's Fireblade setting the trend of road legal superbikes and Ducati's 916 adding the touch of Italian elegance to superbikes, the Yamaha YZF-R1 went a step beyond by adding that extra element of sheer madness that is the corner stone of all superbikes..