Milwaukee Yamaha have taken delivery of the first 2015 YZF-R1 on to British soil and bikesportnews.com was there so see it come out of the van at their Guisborough headquarters.
The bike, which has been weighed and measured, will be stripped down tomorrow afternoon and run up on their dyno for the first time before some serious development work begins ahead of an exhaustive test schedule early next year.
Josh Brookes is already signed to ride for the team in 2015 with team principal Shaun Muir close to adding a second rider in the very near future.
Check back later to see how it sounds…