Could be the next FZ

[robbo]

Read an article today that Yamaha are considering production of another incarnation of the MT09. Gets my vote for sure.

[mtread]

That looks vaguely familiar 

[celticbiker]

Here's a news article.
Visordown: Could Yamaha be planning a retro machine based on the MT-09?.
https://www.visordown.com/news/new-bikes/could-yamaha-be-planning-retro-machine-based-mt-09

[Dudeofrude]

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

[Oldgit]

OH you mean the motorbike with the fatal front suspension problem that they continued to ignore--no thanks.

[robbo]

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.

[vinnyb]

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.

  If it did somebody would put it in the 'cool bike' thread.

[robbo]

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.

  If it did somebody would put it in the 'cool bike' thread.

[ogri48]

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

[VNA - BMW Wank]

 That thing is foccin awful. 
 

[dazza]

That thing is foccin awful.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw this......

[coffee]

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.

[robbo]

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.

[YamFazFan]

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.

That's exactly what a lot of the stuff already in the showrooms looks like IMHO.


It's miles better looking than some of those bikes I reckon.

[Dudeofrude]

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.

I don't mean to insult your eyesight robbo, but that looks absolutely foc all like a cafe racer of any description Haha heres a few real ones to jog your memory 😉
They may be ugly and unusable but they are definitely Cafe racers

[robbo]

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.

[Dudeofrude]

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.

If you referring this this one I've attached... then I think it's awful 😅 but I can appreciate that it would be to some peoples taste.

[Dudeofrude]

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

[fazersharp]

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

I really like the way all 4 exhausts sweep under dont think I have ever seen that before.

[robbo]

Thanks for the link dude, yep that's the one. The half fairing was typical of the Mick Hemmings Commandos, and the colour scheme old school Yamaha race colours. I'd like to build one if I could bend my body into the shape required to ride it. . That's why my Fireblade had to go.
Of the 2 pics you posted, I much prefer the twin shock as to me it's more traditional. No doubt an old age thing .

[coffee]

Read an article today that Yamaha are considering production of another incarnation of the MT09. Gets my vote for sure.

What's that valve like thing above the pillion rests? is it a part from the bin that just wanted to be with his mates?

[coffee]

My mate just told me it's a remote adjuster for the shock,ok not to obtrusive though ay?

[robbo]

My remote adjuster is mounted off the pillion footpeg. It's got to be somewhere accessible for ease of use, otherwise there's no point in having it.

[coffee]

Having never had anything to do with a remote adjuster I didn't realise what it was and of course it needs to be somewhere handy.I'm just a dick'ead, take no notice.

[robbo]

It beats skinning your knuckles when the C spanner lets go