Yamaha R9 announced
Discussion
Genuinely excited about this bike. Could be a good sportsbike for the road...
https://www.visordown.com/news/2025-Yamaha-R9-offi...
https://www.visordown.com/news/2025-Yamaha-R9-offi...
Edited by cava on Wednesday 9th October 14:22
This type of thing makes a lot of sense for road use these days, being honest.
It’s going to have power where you want it, in enough quantity.
I’ve a 2CR R1 and it’s pretty much a waste of time. It only starts to work properly at illegal speeds - something that looks like the R9 makes sense.
It’s going to have power where you want it, in enough quantity.
I’ve a 2CR R1 and it’s pretty much a waste of time. It only starts to work properly at illegal speeds - something that looks like the R9 makes sense.
Bag o' shyte. How is that better than this: https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/kawasa...
It's much heavier, is missing a cylinder and won't sound like a proper race bike, as well as being slower. The 2007 ZX6r was a mega bike with epic ability to thrill and entertain. The brakes were fantastic long before you needed "Brembo" in red on the caliber, the engine revved to almost 17k and down the A10 on a sunny afternoon, you felt you were racing Leon Haslam
There's going to be big demand for bikes of that era in the future !
It's much heavier, is missing a cylinder and won't sound like a proper race bike, as well as being slower. The 2007 ZX6r was a mega bike with epic ability to thrill and entertain. The brakes were fantastic long before you needed "Brembo" in red on the caliber, the engine revved to almost 17k and down the A10 on a sunny afternoon, you felt you were racing Leon Haslam
There's going to be big demand for bikes of that era in the future !
I like it. They have to make an emissions complient bike and also get back to more reasonable prices.
im keen on the 'Forged aluminium gearshift pedal ' .
Im furiously checking the spec on all the other 2025 bikes now to see if they can match that.
Press will go bonkers describing it as the most technologically advanced bike on sale like they always do with yamaha.
im keen on the 'Forged aluminium gearshift pedal ' .
Im furiously checking the spec on all the other 2025 bikes now to see if they can match that.
Press will go bonkers describing it as the most technologically advanced bike on sale like they always do with yamaha.
My God, you're like the turkey that was looking forward to Christmas!!
How can you be served up such luke warm shyte and be excited by the prospect?
Traction control! Stylema brakes, custom maps!! Oooh, custom Kakobi suspension!!
117 pathetic f
king horsepower and you're nursing a semi???
The fact that a bike like this now sits atop the Yamaha street bike range is a shameful indictment of the world today...
And that headline.."here to attack the track ""
With what exactly?? Warm buttered muffins and a soya frappachino??
I bet the track is really stting itself!! fking pathetic.
To be clear...when exactly did you start waxing your vaginas??
How can you be served up such luke warm shyte and be excited by the prospect?
Traction control! Stylema brakes, custom maps!! Oooh, custom Kakobi suspension!!
117 pathetic f
king horsepower and you're nursing a semi???The fact that a bike like this now sits atop the Yamaha street bike range is a shameful indictment of the world today...
And that headline.."here to attack the track ""
With what exactly?? Warm buttered muffins and a soya frappachino??
I bet the track is really s
tting itself!! fking pathetic. To be clear...when exactly did you start waxing your vaginas??
Edited by Steve Bass on Thursday 10th October 08:38
Steve Bass said:
My God, you're like the turkey that was looking forward to Christmas!!
How can you be served up such luke warm shyte and be excited by the prospect?
Traction control! Stylema brakes, custom maps!! Oooh, custom Kakobi suspension!!
117 pathetic fking horsepower and you're nursing a semi???
The fact that a bike like this now sits atop the Yamaha street bike range is a shameful indictment of the world today...
And that headline.."here to attack the track ""
With what exactly?? Warm buttered muffins and a soya frappachino??
I bet the track is really stting itself!! fking pathetic.
To be clear...when exactly did you start waxing your vaginas??
Well, that made my morning... How can you be served up such luke warm shyte and be excited by the prospect?
Traction control! Stylema brakes, custom maps!! Oooh, custom Kakobi suspension!!
117 pathetic f
king horsepower and you're nursing a semi???The fact that a bike like this now sits atop the Yamaha street bike range is a shameful indictment of the world today...
And that headline.."here to attack the track ""
With what exactly?? Warm buttered muffins and a soya frappachino??
I bet the track is really s
tting itself!! fking pathetic. To be clear...when exactly did you start waxing your vaginas??
Edited by Steve Bass on Thursday 10th October 08:38
I must admit I'm confused as to why this now sits at the top of the Yamaha 'super sports' range, that can be used on the road now the R1/M is track only next year.
If they think that the current bikes are too much for the road, why not put a selectable 'pussy' maps on it to restrict it in the same way as the 'rain' modes etc.
I personally don't see the point and would buy a used alternative R1 instead.
croyde said:
Why can't I quote Steve Bass above?
Anyway, have a
I'm off to wax mine as I've gone down to a lowly 65bhp
You've worked it all out, all the great reasons why a 65 bhp bike makes sense. Fuel, insurance, maintenance... the list is probably endless..Anyway, have a
I'm off to wax mine as I've gone down to a lowly 65bhp
But.. .
In a while, it might be a little or a lot, you'll feel an itch. A tiny, almost imperceptible tingling sensation.
It will persist, slowly growing and amplifying until suddenly..... boom!! you wake from your self loathing and say "f
k THIS st!!"You'll go out the next day and put your hands in your pockets, take a good long feel of your balls and buy a hugely impractical 200bhp monster...
And why? because that still has 65bhp somewhere in its rev range but more importantly YOU f
kING ENJOY IT!! You'll get back to your life and be happy. Because that's what matters most.
You'll thank me one day;)
They do their marketing. They know motorcycling is a posey lifestyle activity for pretty much all the people that buy this stuff.
As long as it looks right and can supply some thrills its filling the objective.
People that say they need 300hp on roads that are mostly stationary traffic are very few.
You dont make products for them unless you want to go out of business,which they sort of have been heading toward with all the contorted yoga position race replica era.
This thing its just that other xsr900 they made for 2024/25 with a few different components.
I wonder what the peg to seat distance is on these . Looks the same as xsr900 to me.
At the end of the day people with money for trinkets want the newest thing and they make it for them.
Its nice looking at your colour lcd display and toeing the forged alloy gearchange lever.
As long as it looks right and can supply some thrills its filling the objective.
People that say they need 300hp on roads that are mostly stationary traffic are very few.
You dont make products for them unless you want to go out of business,which they sort of have been heading toward with all the contorted yoga position race replica era.
This thing its just that other xsr900 they made for 2024/25 with a few different components.
I wonder what the peg to seat distance is on these . Looks the same as xsr900 to me.
At the end of the day people with money for trinkets want the newest thing and they make it for them.
Its nice looking at your colour lcd display and toeing the forged alloy gearchange lever.
Steve Bass said:
My God, you're like the turkey that was looking forward to Christmas!!
How can you be served up such luke warm shyte and be excited by the prospect?
Traction control! Stylema brakes, custom maps!! Oooh, custom Kakobi suspension!!
117 pathetic fking horsepower and you're nursing a semi???
The fact that a bike like this now sits atop the Yamaha street bike range is a shameful indictment of the world today...
And that headline.."here to attack the track ""
With what exactly?? Warm buttered muffins and a soya frappachino??
I bet the track is really stting itself!! fking pathetic.
To be clear...when exactly did you start waxing your vaginas??
LOL, I like it. How can you be served up such luke warm shyte and be excited by the prospect?
Traction control! Stylema brakes, custom maps!! Oooh, custom Kakobi suspension!!
117 pathetic f
king horsepower and you're nursing a semi???The fact that a bike like this now sits atop the Yamaha street bike range is a shameful indictment of the world today...
And that headline.."here to attack the track ""
With what exactly?? Warm buttered muffins and a soya frappachino??
I bet the track is really s
tting itself!! fking pathetic. To be clear...when exactly did you start waxing your vaginas??
Edited by Steve Bass on Thursday 10th October 08:38
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