If the adage is that the best soup is made in old pots, in the world of motorcycling, we take new recipes to re-serve dishes that have lost none of their flavor... This is the à la carte menu of vintage, old-school or neo-retro trends, the names being not exhaustive. And it works so well that it flourishes. It is not this latest example from Yamaha projects that will deny it…
Yamaha think of a new model that recalls history. In this case, we would be on a retro-sport, which is already more recent than the café-racer suggestion... The basis of this return to the future would be the MT-09. Identified under the name of FZ the model smells of the 80s and 90s. It would thus allow Yamaha to tease the Suzuki Katana, HondaCB650R, Kawasaki Z900 RS and even the XSR900 of the firm in the popular sector of mid-displacement retros.
As the motorcycle presented would only require minor modifications compared to the MT-09 existing, the chances of seeing the machine enter production are quite strong. The only real stumbling block is whether or not Yamaha can be convinced that there is a place in the market for a machine of this type. Given for 115 hp.
Because the idea is currently only relayed by the Japanese staples of Young Machine magazine. Authors of the pictorial suggestion. To be continued…
