Yamaha 2017 MT-10SP Pics

Wow. Almost makes me wish I would've held out. I bet it will be quite a bit pricier though.

Love that colour instrumentation panel,it looks fantastic. Not a big fan of the body colour/scheme and not sure either about that electronic suspension. When i first saw it this morning,my reaction was like "Damn it!! I should of waited" then i thought about it and in the end i dont regret at all owning a regular black -10.

Colored gauge is really the only thing I would personally want from it. Next year's MT-10 is going to come with quickshifter as standard. I wish Yamaha included quickshifter in for this year's models too. I feel like there was any reason not to have it from the factory.

Surely, it'll be interesting to see what price point this hits at. If it's truly more than $4k over the base MSRP, it'd be tough to justify unless you just have to have the color scheme.

The dash is nice, but personally speaking, I don't need it. Yamaha used this so they could interface with the electronic suspension.

The remap could be a nice refinement over the base model, but again, depending on cost (and your local laws and regulations) you could just remap on your own for a few hundred.

Electronic suspension is a novel idea, but in most cases, it hasn't proved it's worth. Although good in theory, many of the early adopters (both models and the owners of those models) have experienced failures of various components. Rest assured, these failures are not inexpensive. Furthermore, constantly adjusting damping is great (and ideal in a perfect world). But in that perfect world, you'd still need the right spring rates underneath you to carry YOUR load. Yamaha's spring rates won't work for everyone, and no, electronic suspension cannot adjust the spring rate. So, depending on your weight, riding style, and riding conditions, plan on re-springing both ends of your ES bike. While you're at it, be aware that adjusting spring rates will also require global adjustments to damping settings. Time will tell how well the system can adapt (or be adjusted) to suit these sorts of changes.

Personally, I would have rathered that Yamaha use the R1's magnesium wheels to save unsprung/rotational weight, and/or upgraded the non-ES suspension. Same with the brakes. Most owners would pay a premium to get braided ss brake lines, better pads, and a radial master cylinder. Heck, they could have swapped the steel subframe and banana seat for the R1's tail section for those who care less about comfort and carrying passengers. As it stands, it feels like this bike is pure marketing hype aimed squarely at maintaining market share against the Euro super nakeds.

I've been doing some more reading on the Ohlin's electronic suspension and found this article about the R1M ohlinsnews.com/index.php/issues-7-9/issue-7/197-03-oehlins-yamaha-yzf-r1m which makes me wonder if the SP is getting the 6 axis monitoring controller as well which would be awesome. It's a very interesting article which states that the forks and shock are standard Ohlin's products with servos added basically to turn the dampening adjusters which connects to their SCU (suspension control unit) that plugs into the bikes ECU. The unit can also be run in a manual mode which would make it function as a standard shock/fork would. Another interesting fact is that the article says Ohlin's was owned by Yamaha at one point, I didn't know that.

Yeah we'll have to wait and see, I'm hoping they tune it more for the street which I think they are smart enough to do. I was glad to hear that they can be revalved with standard parts so it can be changed although it will cost you.