The front suspension was shit on the early ones. But I thought lessons had been learnt.This bike, I think, is easy on the eye. At least it doesn't have a brown saddle and tyres off a tractor.
Quote from: robbo on 09 June 2020, 07:53:09 pmThe front suspension was shit on the early ones. But I thought lessons had been learnt.This bike, I think, is easy on the eye. At least it doesn't have a brown saddle and tyres off a tractor. If it did somebody would put it in the 'cool bike' thread.
Well it's a no from me. Think it looks Foccing awful! I'm really not a fan of this "2 torches taped under the fairing" look that yamaha seem to be keen on these days and tbh I'm not overly keen on the triple engine either. It runs/goes nice enough etc in the MT09 just not my cup of tea
That thing is foccin awful.
It looks like someone at Yamaha have got a rolling chassis and fired a parts bin at it,hoping it would end up looking ok.....got that one wrong.
Well of course it's a parts bin special, it's an mt09 given the cafe racer treatment. Yamaha have just taken a successful bike and created an appeal, for I imagine, not a lot of money, to people who like that style. At least it looks like a cafe racer and is usable. Unlike some of the boxer engined,brown saddled, tractor tyred stuff that is churned out nowadays under the cafe racer banner.
Memory and eyesights fine thanks Owned a few in the 60's when they were the must have in motorcycling.. My Norton was very similar to your pic, and was my only transport so had to be usable, and how you can say they look ugly, obviously must be a different era thing. I was surprised coffee didn't like it, but hey, it would be boring if we all liked the same stuff. All early cafe racers morphed out of road bikes, discounting custom framed specials, so in that spirit and allowing for modern styling, that MT09 is similar to the Dunstall kits you could buy to give cafe race styling to a Dominator/SS, or a Road Rocket,Bonneville etc.I'd be interested in what you think of the cafe racer kit you can get for the 600 Fazer, made by a company on the Isle of Wight. I think it's great and certainly gives the bike a new lease of life,if you like that style.
Personally if I were go down a cafe racer type route then something like a nicely done xjr1300 would be more my cup of tea
Read an article today that Yamaha are considering production of another incarnation of the MT09. Gets my vote for sure.