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Have we done this yet?

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new ... xsr900-gp/

Yeech that's horrible, like a gag bike that got fed after midnight and turned into a right ugly biff

Seat lump looks stupid.

Fugleee

I don't know what they're smoking in their style dept,but for a firm that has made some good looking bike's in the past they're consistently producing munters these days.
I think it would look a lot better with a couple of round LED lights in the nose cone & some nod to the red & black fade or blue paint scheme from the TRX850.

I dont understand this.
Let's take a retro style bike and chuck a fairing on it. Sort of anti streetfightering a bike!

Demannu wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:07 pm I dont understand this.
Let's take a retro style bike and chuck a fairing on it. Sort of anti streetfightering a bike!

I wouldn't buy a road bike without a fairing.

Dear god, you take a turd and polish it.
And it looks more turd like!

Quite like that

Yorick wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:12 pm

Demannu wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:07 pm I dont understand this.
Let's take a retro style bike and chuck a fairing on it. Sort of anti streetfightering a bike!

I wouldn't buy a road bike without a fairing.

But you're old and infirm and smell of wee and cheap lager

Demannu wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:02 pm

Yorick wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:12 pm

Demannu wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:07 pm I dont understand this.
Let's take a retro style bike and chuck a fairing on it. Sort of anti streetfightering a bike!

I wouldn't buy a road bike without a fairing.

But you're old and infirm and smell of wee and cheap lager

Still faster than you tho

I really hope Yamaha aren't softening us up for an R9 in this style. I like the basic concept of the XSR900 but Yamaha's styling department are taking the piss here. They really have no idea of how to do a half fairing and the seat is dreadful.

I kind of like it, looks better on the go...



... but I preferred the DB40 - even though I've gone back and looked at it to compare and there's no great difference, just seems to work better.

I take it this means there's no R9 coming?

Hideous!!

The more I look at it, the more I kinda like it.

Reminds me of this..

https://www.webike.my/my_news/kawasaki- ... rom-spain/

Seat unit is just so wrong. Designed by Stevie Wonder?

Couchy wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:40 pm Quite like that

Couchy has just bought one ....

I feel like it was a cheap way of somehow satisfying the 'give us an R9' mob.

Not sure about it. One thing is for sure, it's dividing opinion!

Yorick wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:04 pm

Demannu wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:02 pm

Yorick wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:12 pm

I wouldn't buy a road bike without a fairing.

But you're old and infirm and smell of wee and cheap lager

Still faster than you tho

Not on an unfaired bike

I think the seat hump is shaped like it is due to the bike taking styling hints from the Marlboro YZR 500's from the 80's GP era bikes,cue the yellow background.
I wonder how long it will take for Yamaha France to do a Gauloise homage?