I test rode one today at Boyd's Motorcycles, this bike is amazing! So nice to use it in automatic through town, so easy, and great to not having to feather the clutch in slow traffic! The auto works really well, I'm sold! Having auto and manual is the best of both worlds. I'm buying one.
Love my africa twin dct. Lots of stop and go on my comute. I took a manual bike to work today, and it made me appreciate the dct. This bike seems interesting though. Ive already been drooling over the mt09, and this addition could be icing on the cake.
Might sound daft but I would love to see the XSR & MT 125cc with a automatic box as these are made for city riding and as we all know city riding is up and down the gear box constantly so a automatic box on these and other small cc bikes would be good idea
Very well presented, I don’t like the situation where you go round a small roundabout in 2 and could go into first gear especially in the UK when the weather is wet and slippery in winter and the roads are in poor condition Good the good work up👏👍
Great bike,but I wish it still had option of manual clutch and shift ability.? Why? We'll just like my Honda cbr650r E clutch bike, I can over ride e clutch and manually clutch and shift especially if the computer has a glitch,problem with software,etc the whole is not down ,just the e clutch method,..However, Yamaha only has computer program too operate shift and clutch, no shifter or clutch handle to manually operate bike so essentially the bike is down till computer is fix , but Honda still allows you too ride manually if computer has a problem.
Yamaha are not planning to have Y-AMT to talk to IMU until the next Y-AMT model. That is stop auto gear changes when the IMU is sensing a lot of lean angle (in a corner).
I have a "22 MT09 SP and the GEN 4 looks more like a evolution and not worth an upgrade. I'll hang onto mine for a couple more years but I am really liking the Y-AMT
This is a great innovation I’m very confused why they chose the MT09 though I think this’ll be perfect for commuters, and although I commute on an 09SP, most people take smaller bikes I would’ve expected the 07 to be much better suited to it
I totally disagree they should have this option on every bike I'd love to see the mt-10 get it I hate clutch bikes personally I want an automatic and I have a GSXR Hayabusa I'm tired of shifting gears I want a super bike with an automatic when it comes out I'm going to grab it I believe there is a market for it.
Hello Richard, It's great to see such a fan of auto bikes.I have a Honda nc750x dct and hopefully this mt09 yamt will be in South Africa early next year. I'm very interested. Cheers from Johannesburg.
What happens when it fails as all things eventually do especially electronic things and especially electronic things on the MT range? How does the rider overcome a failure and limp the bike home? That's presuming you were able to peel yourself off the armco... I haven't seen a single bike journalist cover the most obvious issue with these bikes. This isn't like a car's automatic transmission where failure won't kill you. This is a bike. This transmission is still the manual one just one that's electronically actuated so a failure would be the same as a manual transmissions seizure. Except unlike a mechanical failure on the normal one that is mitigated by service inspections and maintenance of the clutch cable, etc this can fail due to a drop of moisture in a connector or the switch gear for this. How would you like it dipping down into a nice twisty cool mountain pass with it's associated condensation and suddenly it decides that you're shifting down due to condensation in the paddles and does that mid corner? The motorcycling journalists need to ask this hard question before they promote this deathtrap to the public.
The argument that it shuts randomly gonna stop working is the same argument that people had when it changed from carbs to fuel injection I’m all for making things more accessible and safer for the masses It’s a bit weird on a hoon bike, but I won’t be surprised when this becomes more normal
I test rode one today at Boyd's Motorcycles, this bike is amazing! So nice to use it in automatic through town, so easy, and great to not having to feather the clutch in slow traffic! The auto works really well, I'm sold!
Having auto and manual is the best of both worlds. I'm buying one.
Love my africa twin dct. Lots of stop and go on my comute. I took a manual bike to work today, and it made me appreciate the dct. This bike seems interesting though. Ive already been drooling over the mt09, and this addition could be icing on the cake.
Might sound daft but I would love to see the XSR & MT 125cc with a automatic box as these are made for city riding and as we all know city riding is up and down the gear box constantly so a automatic box on these and other small cc bikes would be good idea
That's a CVT
Very well presented, I don’t like the situation where you go round a small roundabout in 2 and could go into first gear especially in the UK when the weather is wet and slippery in winter and the roads are in poor condition Good the good work up👏👍
Like it. Anything that can save sore hands when riding
No clutch is very nice.
Wonder how it works in 8 figures or between trafic since DCT is lagging in this manner in relatiin to regular shifting.
Great bike,but I wish it still had option of manual clutch and shift ability.? Why? We'll just like my Honda cbr650r E clutch bike, I can over ride e clutch and manually clutch and shift especially if the computer has a glitch,problem with software,etc the whole is not down ,just the e clutch method,..However, Yamaha only has computer program too operate shift and clutch, no shifter or clutch handle to manually operate bike so essentially the bike is down till computer is fix , but Honda still allows you too ride manually if computer has a problem.
What are the effects / relationships of Y-AMT regarding IMU functions ??
Thanks for any & all responses.
Yamaha are not planning to have Y-AMT to talk to IMU until the next Y-AMT model. That is stop auto gear changes when the IMU is sensing a lot of lean angle (in a corner).
I put 70,000 miles on a Honda NC auto. You never had to go into manual to drop a gear. Simply thumb the down button.
I have a "22 MT09 SP and the GEN 4 looks more like a evolution and not worth an upgrade. I'll hang onto mine for a couple more years but I am really liking the Y-AMT
Will it have an aftermarket brake cylinder that can be installed on the left handle?
It would be very nice... More brake control using left hand!
The only reason I’d ride an auto sports bike is if my left foot didn’t work. The Africa twin and goldwing are better in DCT tho
This is a great innovation
I’m very confused why they chose the MT09 though
I think this’ll be perfect for commuters, and although I commute on an 09SP, most people take smaller bikes
I would’ve expected the 07 to be much better suited to it
I totally disagree they should have this option on every bike I'd love to see the mt-10 get it I hate clutch bikes personally I want an automatic and I have a GSXR Hayabusa I'm tired of shifting gears I want a super bike with an automatic when it comes out I'm going to grab it I believe there is a market for it.
Hello Richard,
It's great to see such a fan of auto bikes.I have a Honda nc750x dct and hopefully this mt09 yamt will be in South Africa early next year. I'm very interested.
Cheers from Johannesburg.
No 07 for 1 season only, and have bad components ex motor
What happens when it fails as all things eventually do especially electronic things and especially electronic things on the MT range? How does the rider overcome a failure and limp the bike home? That's presuming you were able to peel yourself off the armco... I haven't seen a single bike journalist cover the most obvious issue with these bikes.
This isn't like a car's automatic transmission where failure won't kill you. This is a bike.
This transmission is still the manual one just one that's electronically actuated so a failure would be the same as a manual transmissions seizure. Except unlike a mechanical failure on the normal one that is mitigated by service inspections and maintenance of the clutch cable, etc this can fail due to a drop of moisture in a connector or the switch gear for this. How would you like it dipping down into a nice twisty cool mountain pass with it's associated condensation and suddenly it decides that you're shifting down due to condensation in the paddles and does that mid corner?
The motorcycling journalists need to ask this hard question before they promote this deathtrap to the public.
Agreed. Some sort of manual intervention should have been made available to rider.
Does e clutch have the same Problem?
Has this ever happened ever?
Not saying it can't happen but Yamaha is pretty reliable.
The argument that it shuts randomly gonna stop working is the same argument that people had when it changed from carbs to fuel injection
I’m all for making things more accessible and safer for the masses
It’s a bit weird on a hoon bike, but I won’t be surprised when this becomes more normal
As someone else very eloquently articulated in another video => Hard Pass
Let us know how it fees being stampeded by the next generation bikers... 🤣
Ok... have a nice day with your Ford Model "T"