Published September 23, 2026. Figures below are read live from the MotoGossip index and change as listings do.
The cheapest typical asking price right now is at Specialty Motorsports in Sacramento, CA, at a median of $9,995. The priciest is at RideNow Powersports Boulder in Las Vegas, NV, at a median of $22,272. Both are medians of that dealer’s own current listings for this model, not a single asking price.
Across 8 weeks of data, from week 2026-W31 to week 2026-W38, the median ask among newly indexed YZF-R1 listings has run from $18,949 to $19,199. Our index only goes back to late July 2026, so this is a short window and not a multi-year price history; treat it as a read on recent weeks, not a long-term trend.
| Listing | Year | Price | Mileage | Seller | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2010 | $8,999 | Mileage unlisted | Simply Ride | Eden Prairie, MN |
| 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2012 | $9,899 | 20,420 mi | Redlinecommonwealth | Unlisted |
| 2013 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2013 | $9,995 | 19,789 mi | Specialty Motorsports | Sacramento, CA |
| 2013 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2013 | $9,995 | 11,491 mi | Specialty Motorsports | Sacramento, CA |
| 2010 Yamaha YZF-R1 LE | 2010 | $10,499 | 8,269 mi | Simply Ride | Eden Prairie, MN |
| 2011 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2011 | $10,999 | 16,601 mi | Team Winnebagoland | Oshkosh, WI |
| 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2015 | $11,695 | 25,632 mi | Ridenow Powersports Mckinney | McKinney, TX |
| 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2015 | $11,695 | 25,632 mi | Ridenowdallas | Unlisted |
| 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2015 | $11,695 | 25,632 mi | Ridenowdecatur | Unlisted |
| 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 | 2015 | $11,695 | 25,632 mi | Ridenowfortworth | Unlisted |
The YZF-R1 is Yamaha's flagship literbike, a 998cc crossplane-crank inline-four built around the electronics and chassis knowledge Yamaha's factory MotoGP effort feeds back into the production bike. It is a track-focused superbike first, with a full rider-aid suite (traction control, wheelie control, launch control on some years) that makes it usable on the street without pretending it was designed for commuting. Buying used, track history is the single biggest factor in what you're actually getting: check for tech-inspection stickers or their glue residue, drilled and zip-tied fairings, frame sliders or bar-end sliders (and the marks they leave if removed), and tires worn flat across the whole tread rather than just the center. Ask directly about track days and get a straight answer before you look at anything else. Check service records around valve-clearance intervals, since a performance inline-four ridden hard needs that maintenance on schedule, and inspect the fairing undersides and frame for crash damage that a careful repaint can hide from a distance but rarely hides completely up close. This is the least forgiving bike on this whole list for an inexperienced rider: the power delivery, the riding position and the insurance cost are all built around someone who already knows what they're doing. Buyers who want the R1 name mainly for the badge, rather than for what the bike is actually built to do, are usually better served by something like the middleweight YZF-R7, both for the asking price and for how the bike will actually be ridden day to day. Insurance for a literbike like this is significant almost everywhere, and a lender or insurer may ask about riding experience before covering it, so budget for that alongside the purchase price rather than after signing. Yamaha has also revised the R1's electronics package within its production run, so it is worth checking exactly which rider-aid features a given model year carries rather than assuming every R1 badge means the same equipment underneath.