[jandj_davis]

Yeah, this story has been up on Motorcycle-usa.com and motorcycledaily.com for a few days now, and everyone is responding with "good for them, glad they took responsibility." Are you kidding me!? Yamaha blatently lied about the R6's redline (even though it is still higher than anyone else's), and you all want to forget about that already? There are laws agains false advertising here in this US of A, and my guess is, knowing your main marketing/selling point is a lie is probably considered false advertising. I doubt that anyone will take them to court over this, since the tach does READ up to 17.5K. However, some faith in the company has to have been lost, and I think that is where Yamaha made the biggest mistake. So many motorcycle purchases are made simply because of brand loyalty, and Yamaha seems to have forgotten about it's loyal fans. In my opinion, the new R6 is a great bike, and the best looking of the super-sports right now. However, I would never buy one, simply because the company has shown itself to not be trustworthy.

 

[jandj_davis]

I am an electrical engineer, currently working in the aerospace industry (all those heli's in Iraq, I worked on part of them). I know what kind of development goes into creating an electronically interfacing susbsystem, such as an analog signal from a crankshaft sensor to an ECM to an analog tach. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY the engineers at yamaha "made a mistake" with that 9% error. The amount of signal processing needed to control the EXUP valve, the fly-by-wire throttle, and the fuel injectors means they know what they are doing, and they know how to develop something that works as it should. The ONLY reason ANY system would have 9% error is that it was built into it on purpose. I can understand error in the realm of 0.1% as not being enough to engineer out, but 9% has got to be intentional. And that is where Yamaha went wrong. It wasn't a "mistake" that the redline claims 17.5K RPM, and it wasn't a "mistake" that they advertised it as such. And no, they are not correcting the error. To correct the error would be to put a new face on the tach of every '06 R6 that redlines at 16.2K. As is mentioned below, the only reason they are making this "correction" is that they are being called out on it and Yamaha's lawyers are hoping this appeases the masses.