Becoming a member of the just lately launched MT-09 and MT-09SP, Yamaha’s confirmed it’s bought one other model of its nuts bare on the best way – and it’s going to return kitted out with its intelligent computerised transmission system
We’ve already introduced you the lowdown on Yamaha’s new Y-AMT Automated Handbook Transmission expertise – however now lastly we had phrase about which bike’s going to be the primary to characteristic the brand new arrange.
There’s little shock within the alternative: the agency’s MT-09 bare roadster can have the automated gearbox as an possibility for 2025, alongside a standard transmission variant. The Y-AMT drops each the gear and clutch levers, changing them with computerised actuators, which function in both absolutely computerized ‘D’ or handbook override modes. A paddle swap arrange on the bars lets the rider change up and down in handbook mode, and there’s a sporty ‘D+’ auto mode as nicely, which holds the revs a bit increased earlier than shifts, for stronger efficiency.
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Our friends from Quick Bikes journal are going to be placing it by its paces in each commonplace and Y-AMT format, and we’ll be bringing you their first impressions as quickly as doable. However if you’d like the complete, complete lowdown, choose your self up a duplicate.
