Test fleet: Yamaha Tracer 9 GT
I know it’s been around eight years since Yamaha decided to do something different with their engines, but – sad to say – I’ve only ridden a cross-plane engine of theirs once and it wasn’t that agreeable.
I know some will ask where I’ve been all this time, but I run a classic magazine (Classic Motorcycle Mechanics) and any long-term bikes I’ve been lucky enough to use haven’t had a tuning fork on the tank: until now…
Ooh that’s harsh!
Rewind to 2018 and I’m doing a back-to-back test of the-then latest YZF-R1 against the original 1998 version. To say the original was best would be an
