#Yamaha

The wait is finally over! Yamaha has announced that, yes, an R9 is coming to the world, after years of speculation. Motorcycle.com, as well as basically every other motorcycle publication around the world, has written about what we think the bike is going to feature, and our own Dennis Chung revealed what we knew based on CARB filings and social media teasers, but now we know for sure what the R9 brings to the table.

It wasn’t that long ago that the most popular trend in motorcycle technology was radar-based active cruise control and blindside detection. Today, it’s no longer the hottest trend in the industry, suddenly displaced by a sudden bumper crop of automatic clutch transmission systems.

As we dug deeper, we discovered more information that not only confirms an MT-09 with Y-AMT is on the way, but also that it was originally supposed to be announced as a 2024 model and is now likely delayed for 2025. Here’s what we’ve discovered so far.