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Many moons ago, iirc, TBM had the temerity to mention that the WR400f they had been testing was a bit hard to start (truth be told it was a complete pig). Yamaha pulled all their advertising and banned them from all future press bikes! Yamaha quickly replaced the 400 with the 426 as well!

Would it make bike companies actually sell decent kit in the first place. Not read any bike tests for years, but having owned several bikes that were praised for their instant response or forgiving handling. What they mean that is the fi is so sudden it's scary or the suspension is so bad you have to ride slowly. As an example, the gen 2 Fazer 1000 fuelling was dreadful, so bad in fact that at the 2007 bike product awards the dynojet rep actually thanked Lyn Jarvis for making so much money for them! Fast forward 20 years, and Yamaha are still making fi bikes that don't fuel properly! I understand the need to pass emissions/noise tests messes with the fuelling, but why put a fuelling map so sharp that hitting a bump results in uncontrollable acceleration......on a retro bike. Or is it simply that you criticize a bike and they pull the advertising!

'fuelling is spot on' Were you pissed when you rode it? They are reknown for piss poor fuelling as standard. Snatchy and impossible to be smooth unless in B mode. Dreadful suspension mis-match, too soft at the front, too hard at the rear. All easy enough to sort out, but not what you expect when you put £7k on a bike.

I personally wonder what Yamaha were thinking. They've used Sarron's old bike in the advertising video. If it had been a race rep, fine! But it's a retro ujm, so unlikely to live on the track or have the need to squeeze every hp onto the tarmac. If Yamaha are confused as to what it is, what are the punters going to think! Wouldn't mind a 6 way gyro on my XSR though!

That is not a 2022 model! Honestly, it's gopping!

Can't bring myself to post.a picture of it, it's bloody hideous. Where they pissed when they signed it off, did the designers 4 yo get hold of a crayon and doodle all over the original design?

Nomex is a fireproof material used in race suits, totally safe for a bit of googling

Thanks for sharing your BMI's, but I actually meant middleweight, as in everyone is buying bloody MT07s instead of proper bikes (pops on nomex underwear)

Thought I'd be polite and say hello. Bored with middle aged middle weight bikers forum so you lot had better be interesting!