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T WAS A GIVEN that after
Yamaha turned the mega popular
MT-09 into the Tracer version
that they would do the same with the
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of years, I was interested to see what
the Yamaha engineers had done to
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for touring. I rode from Sydney to
the Hunter Valley for the Australian
launch, where we promptly copped
the downpours from the tail end of
Cyclone Debbie.
Riding in the atrocious conditions
showed up one of the Tracer’s
outstanding features – the handling.
Even with rivers of water running
across the road I never felt uneasy as
the bike stayed planted to the bitumen.