Yamaha XS Eleven  But honestly? Neither offered the kind of
emotional or visceral zing we all crave. Obviously, someone at
Yamaha felt the same way because about that time, within the
sanctum where two-strokes ruled Yamaha's engineers designed and
built a bigger four-stroke cannon. Then they loaded it with
extra powder, big balls and being extra mad about being left out
of the super bike conversation, lite the fuse and pointed it
across the bow of the motorcycle industry.  That was the XS
Eleven. Big, brutish, and the fastest motorcycle of 1978.
Unforgettable now, because it was memorable then.     Of the
Japanese makers, Honda was the first to break 1,000cc territory
with their 1975 Honda GL1000. Following the success of the
Kawasaki Z1, the KZ1000 came onto the market in 1977. Suzuki
responded in 1978 with their wildly successful GS1000. At the
time, Yamaha lolly-gagged behind others in the Big Four offering
up their XS-650 twin and the somewhat humdrum XS750, introduced
in 1976 and mentioned above.  Nothin