News – New for 2016: Yamaha XSR900, the MT-09 retro style – Used YAMAHA

New in 2016: Yamaha XSR900, the MT-09 retro style

New - New for 2016: Yamaha XSR900, the MT-09 retro style - Used YAMAHA

Building on the momentum of its XSR700, Yamaha continues to develop its neo-retro range with the XSR900, a classic-looking roadster built on the basis of the turbulent MT-09 and whose arrival has been expected since the end of summer. (read MNC of September 23, 2015 and MNC of November 6, 2015).

Building on the momentum of its, Yamaha continues to develop its neo-retro range with the XSR900, a classic-looking roadster built on the basis of the turbulent and whose arrival has been expected since the end of the summer (read  and).

Retro (a little) and dynamic (a lot) !

The second step in Yamaha’s "Faster Sons" project – the aim of which is to take advantage of the attraction to motorcycles of the past via contemporary machines – the XSR900 was designed in collaboration with Roland Sands. This final version, exhibited for the first time at the Milan Motorcycle Show this week, is notably available in the elegant biton yellow and black color adopted on the . 

The parallel between the two motorcycles stops there, however, insofar as the concept imagined by Sands was much more Flat Track oriented..

In addition to these colors also used by Yamaha to celebrate these 60 years, this XSR900 is distinguished by its round optics at the front, fixed on aluminum plates. At the rear, its small LED light is reminiscent of that of the custom Bolt. 

The tank – whose capacity remains fixed at a small 14 liters – receives an aluminum cover, a material that is also found on the supports of the front fender and the small perforated panels on the rear.

The flat saddle is in topstitched leather, while the aluminum perimeter frame connected to a tubular rear loop, the suspensions or even the 4-piston radial calipers come directly from the. As on the XSR700, the transformation is mainly visual, even if Yamaha has still recalibrated the damping..

MT-09 Tracer.

Surprisingly, the XSR900 adopts a whole lot of very "modern" electronic aids, like the three injection maps adjustable from the handlebars, the TCS traction control – only in effect on the Tracer, not on the MT-09 – as well. than a new anti-dribble clutch. 

This 2016 novelty will be available from February 2016 in yellow and black or matt gray. Its price is not yet communicated, but MNC is investigating the aisles of the EICMA: stay tuned !

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