Bike colours..

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Bike colours..

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Very important to me. Yamaha imo have some of the best bikes, worst colours. The MT range / tracer being the worst. Not a fan of some of their brighter colours but looking through ebay the 21 mt09 has a blue and something. Looks great I reckon.

But, talking to a bloke the other week,it's the most uncomfortable bike he's ever ridden, but our arses are all different. Had my tracer 2 years and the itch is there, comes and goes, then reading other threads, comes again. If I was to change today (today only) it would be mt09 in blue or the z650 in green.

Which one ???

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-MT-09 ... 635-2958-0


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2021-Kawasak ... 635-2958-0
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Re: Bike colours..

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Yamaha did an R1 in 2004 iirc that was a dark silver/gunmetal, but with dark blue matt side panels. It looked terrible irl.
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Dodgy knees wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:20 am Very important to me. Yamaha imo have some of the best bikes, worst colours. The MT range / tracer being the worst. Not a fan of some of their brighter colours but looking through ebay the 21 mt09 has a blue and something. Looks great I reckon.

But, talking to a bloke the other week,it's the most uncomfortable bike he's ever ridden, but our arses are all different. Had my tracer 2 years and the itch is there, comes and goes, then reading other threads, comes again. If I was to change today (today only) it would be mt09 in blue or the z650 in green.

Which one ???

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-MT-09 ... 635-2958-0


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2021-Kawasak ... 635-2958-0
The green is a 'different' green and kinda cool. I'd wanna test ride it though first as it's potentially very different to yours.
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Green. Every day of the week.
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Remind me not to speed read posts!!
The OP, all I saw was “All our arses are different” & “I’ve had an itch for 2 years” 🤣
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Blue ones are faster :)
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In order of fastness

Matte black
Gloss black
Black with minimal colour bits/trim
Red
Blue
Green
White
Yellow
Orange

I thought everyone knew this.
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I HATE black bikes!

I do like a nice bright colour, my current bike is orange.
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