Yamaha YZF-R1
(Deltabox V frame, so this is a 2004-2006 generation bike)
Miles/Hours: not listed, seller says “low hours”
Asking: $6,000, cash or trades
Where:  Argyle, NY

SELLER
Clean Yamaha Graves R1 factory track bike with low hours and a fresh tune up. Deltabox V frame Graves exhaust. Haven’t uploaded any new photos since Bike was detailed.. Cash or trades

RSBFS
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The Deltabox V frame narrows this down to the 2004-2006 R1 generation, right in the middle of Graves Motorsports’ best years in AMA racing. Chuck Graves has been building race parts for the R1 since it launched in 1998, and the shop’s most famous stunt came in 2002, when Damon Buckmaster won the first three AMA Formula Xtreme races on a Graves-built Yamaha R7 before Honda and Suzuki protested it wasn’t properly homologated. Graves’ answer was to graft R1 bodywork and a 1078cc R1 motor onto the R7 chassis to satisfy the rulebook, and Buckmaster kept his wins and finished second in the championship that year. A couple seasons later, Graves-tuned Yamahas went 1-2 in the 2004 AMA Superstock championship, Aaron Gobert took the title with Jamie Hacking second, and in 2006 Hacking swept both Supersport and Superstock on a Graves Factory Yamaha, a double nobody had pulled off in almost twenty years. If this bike is running real Graves internals from that stretch, it’s wearing a resume that actually won races.

We’ve been burned by a “Graves” claim before. Worth a read on the one we covered a while back if you want a reminder of why that name on a listing needs receipts. This one at least backs up the claim with the Deltabox V frame and a factory Graves exhaust, more than the last one had going for it, but “trust me” is still doing a lot of the heavy lifting until more photos and some history show up.

At $6,000 with cash or trade on the table, and sitting up in Argyle, NY, this one won’t last if the story checks out.

Good luck to the buyer and seller!