Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car

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Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car

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Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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The Italian motorcycle fan and two-wheel mechanic Jacopo Marzaro has built his Yamaha R9-M.

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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Marzaro works for the Yamaha dealer Venezia Moto. A Tracer 900 GT served as the basis.

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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The R9-M was to become a real super sports model.

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A one-man hump sits on the new rear frame.

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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The power increased from 115 to 140 hp. The weight dropped to 155 kilograms.

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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The exhaust comes from Akrapovic, the magnesium wheels from O.Z..

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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New triple clamps and digital dashboard in the cockpit.

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car
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Ohlins contributes high-quality spring elements.

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Brembo GP4 RX brake calipers in combination with Brembo Supersport discs promise exquisite braking power on the front wheel.

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The R9-M from Jacopo Marzaro is a one-off. When will Yamaha follow suit with a production version??

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Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car

Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M
Dealer builds MT-09 super sports cars

Yamaha has protected various model abbreviations for supersport models. The Japanese have just presented the R7 based on the MT-07. An Italian dealer has already built an R9-M around an MT-09 on its own.


Uli Baumann

05/18/2021

In 2014 Jacopo Marzaro sat on one for the first time Yamaha MT-09. And right away he asked himself what this three-cylinder concept could do on the racetrack. In 2021 the answer will be on the wheels – the Yamaha R9-M based on a Yamaha Tracer 900 GT.

It was developed and built by Marzaro himself as a mechanic at the Italian Yamaha dealer Venezia Moto. Around a year of work went into the successful conversion, with hardly one stone left unturned.

Radically modified chassis


Venezia Moto Yamaha R9-M: Dealer builds MT-09 super sports car


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The most extensive modifications were made to the chassis. The standard rear frame did not want to match the sporty demands at all and had to give way completely. A do-it-yourself makes the stern steeper and only takes a self-formed solo hump. At the front, a new Ohlins fork leads into aluminum fork bridges milled from solid, while Swedish goods also replace the series component at the rear. The new steering stubs are attached below the upper triple clamp. As a replacement for the standard cast rims, lightweight magnesium rims from O.Z. between the wheel suspensions. Brembo GP4 RX brake calipers in combination with Brembo Supersport discs promise exquisite braking power on the front wheel. Slicks ensure sufficient grip. A self-made full fairing, a carbon fender at the front and an adapted tank cover round off the new lines.

Performance up, weight down

Marzaro also devoted himself intensively to the three-cylinder Tracer 900. With a lot of fine-tuning, a new Akrapovic exhaust, a higher-throughput BMC air filter and a new ECU mapping, the triple has increased from 115 to 140 hp. And because Marzaro disposed of or relieved a lot of parts in the course of the conversion, these horses only have to deal with 155 kilograms ready to drive. Chapeau!

And who knows, history might repeat itself. In the case of the R7, too, it was privateers who built the first super sports variants based on the MT-07 drive. With such a nice steep forward from Italy, we don’t want to wait too long for an R9 from Yamaha.

opinion poll

Should Yamaha build a super sports car around the 900 three-cylinder?

Voted 207 times

Yes absolutely.

No, there is no need for that.

Conclusion

So far, Yamaha has only had the model code R9 protected. An Italian enthusiast has already built a remarkable super sports car around the Yamaha three-cylinder on his own. Let’s see if the Japanese follow suit at the factory.

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