woot woot.....................MT10 alert

[AyJay]

It also looks cheap and flimsy like a chinese bike..

Really? You could say that about all the MT range. The 09 is littered with bits and bobs too, but I don't think it makes it look Chinese at all. Chinese bikes are big lumps of roughly finished metal and plastic stuff with substandard paint, but this looks precision engineered. The problem is it looks over designed.

What I mean by that is that it's like the whole of Yamaha's design team are still fascinated by their CAD/CAM tools and have over designed everything. Not everything has to a recess here, a clever angle there or an embossed widget stuck on the doohickey. They just need to chill out a bit and use beautiful shapes rather than trying to use every tool in Autodesk's menus.

Does anyone know anyone who can enlarge fucking STUPIDLY small tank they've given it? Seriously, if a MotoGP bike has 22 litres and an Isle of Mann TT R1 has 24, why the fuck can't they put a 21 litre tank on a naked bike. They're so proud of their cruise control and crow about it being able to be used for distance and then stick a titchy little tank on it.

Yet another bike that can't touch the Gen 1 for usability.

I'm still buying one though. Or should I wait for the Tracer version which is almost certainly being tested right now.....