Has anyone bought one of these, thoughts.
Tracer 9 gt plus y-amt
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Yamaha doing deals ,to compete with Honda 1000 gt ?
They have dropped the price to £15000 from £17000
I have a Tracer9 GT+ but mine is 2023, so apologies, but I haven’t tried the y-amt version, happy to answer other questions though. I’ve put less than 8k miles on it and hardly any this year due to family issues, but I think it is a great bike.
I have the 9GT 2023 for sale, great bike. Test rode the new version with Y AMT, wasn't massively impressed to be honest. Take up of throttle from standstill felt quite crude compared with BMW system on R1300GS. You would get used to it I'm sure, but it feels obviously like just a servo letting clutch out, whereas the BMW almost feels like an auto box. Once on the go, it was good, and using manual change gets best out of it (same as GS in that regard).
Performance wise, it felt like it was being held back electronically compared with my bike, partly down to mine being looser with 26k on it, partly due to the mapping interfering with the natural throttle feel. Again, you'd get used to it, just felt shackled compared to mine on a back to back ride. Good bikes though, had no problems with mine, and if you get a healthy discount, then happy days, get yourself on a long test ride, an hour or two minimum.
Performance wise, it felt like it was being held back electronically compared with my bike, partly down to mine being looser with 26k on it, partly due to the mapping interfering with the natural throttle feel. Again, you'd get used to it, just felt shackled compared to mine on a back to back ride. Good bikes though, had no problems with mine, and if you get a healthy discount, then happy days, get yourself on a long test ride, an hour or two minimum.
I test rode a Y AMT Tracer and its crude compared to Honda DCT. Same with the BMW system.
They are cheap compared with BMW, but they are reliable, the engine is cracking and characteful. Ergonomically fairly similar.
Apart from being more exciting to ride, I'd say it's not a completely different experience as opposed to something like a street triple or a four cylinder. It depends what you are looking for that your GSA doesn't offer you.
Still look a tad overpriced to me. Whilst some form of automatic may have a place for some riders, the wonders of Y-AMT wouldn't be remotely persuasive for me.
I quite like the look of the incoming Versys 900S, but I sense the likes of Voge, CF Moto have already seen the potential for taking a chunk of the middleweight market sector.
I quite like the look of the incoming Versys 900S, but I sense the likes of Voge, CF Moto have already seen the potential for taking a chunk of the middleweight market sector.
900 GT gets cracking reviews and are cheap enough for low miles now. I wanted to test ride one but was told its too clean to let me out on one. ..
