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    YAMAHA MT-09 SP

    Apr 17, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS STUART
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    NICK WOOD PHOTOGRAPHY

    TAKE THE BALLISTIC Yamaha MT-09, add in flashy paintwork, a quickshifter, some trick KYB forks and an Öhlins shock and the result is the MT-09 SP.

    This is a bike I’ve been seriously hanging to ride. I love the whole insanity of the MT concept and fixing the cheapish standard suspension fitted to the MT-09 by throwing in top level componentry made me excited to see how much better the SP handled.

    THREE TIMES THE FUN

    The 847cc three-cylinder crossplane engine has always been the strongest point of the standard MT-09. With

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