Bike of the year.

[**R1**]

No No No, the bike of the year must be by category, I mean they are all so completely different example by your rational, how can a ZXR636 be the bike of the year when a honda CRF250 dirt bike was not tested against it, or for that matter a BMW K1200. They are completely different and the BOTY os essentially a waste of time for this reason. To nominate only one is crazy, to be done properly it needs to be by type for example
Best tourer Triump ST1050
Best Sportsbike 1000cc ZXR1000
Best Sportsbike 600cc ZXR636
Best bike under 600 cc
Best Dirt Bike KX250
Best small bike Hyosung comet 250

Or whatever, to name on is silly and quite meaningless for all those that dont ride in that particular segment of bike.

like this

Best large capacity bike to wheelie -gsx1300
Best 1000cc bike to wheelie -R1
Best 600cc bike to wheelie -GSXR600
Best Dirtbike to wheelie -Husaburg 480
Best small bike to wheelie -VTR250
Best Kids bike to wheelie -Husqy boy jnr

there we go bikes of the year

[Ixion]

No No No, the bike of the year must be by category,

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Very true. And knowing that a 1000cc sprotsbike won BOTY is quite unhelpful if one is trying to decide on a choice of a 250cc MX bike. Of course, in some cases the category may be implicit in the nature of the judging panel - one may assume that the judges of MotoX Weekly would not select the 1000cc sprotsbike. So , to be menaingful one must know WHOSE BOTY

(Unfortunately , I have not been able to track down a copy of Nana Rider's Weekly to find what they chose as BOTY)

[Deano]

Yamaha are always ready to break boundries and do something different,merging different bikes.....

From that photo, it looks to me like a cross between a v-max, a rocket and a brutale.

[Devil]

MT01? Bike of the year? Hardly. That moniker presumes Yamaha want to sell some. I have yet to see one in the flesh, mind you Yamaha's marketing arrangements in Wellington leave a bit to be desired.

I thought it was pretty 'meh' when I saw the pics. Then I saw it in person and loved it. Nice chunky engine. I'd have one, but maybe with the stage 1 or 2 kit on it.

[Hitcher]

The Triumph ST1050 a "tourer"? I suppose inasmuch as the Blackbird, Hirebus and ZX12 are "tourers" it can lay claim. But really these four are just stretched sprotsbikes and not something designed to eat 600+ km a day, after day, after day (my definition of "tourer").

[Slingshot]

MT01? Bike of the year? Hardly. That moniker presumes Yamaha want to sell some. I have yet to see one in the flesh, mind you Yamaha's marketing arrangements in Wellington leave a bit to be desired.

Motorad & TSS have one on their showroom floors.

I know a guy up in Palmy that has one, he took it on the Coast to Coast last year and the number of people that gathered around it was incredible.

I personally think they're pretty cool, I haven't riden one so can't comment on the handling but in the world of standards that we live in...it's nice to see a company that has the balls to be different.
Imagine if all we had to look forward to in the future was GSXRs/R1s/CBRs/ZXxxRs or the Harleys and look alikes etc.

[Slingshot]

Oh, and the motor is 1670cc and it has a 15 litre fuel tank.

[Hitcher]

Motorad & TSS have one on their showroom floors.

Sounds like a trip to TSS is in order. I have been in Motorad/Sawyers on a weekly basis recently and haven't seen it. Maybe I'm going blind. Or something. I've seen the promo banner on the Sawyers side of the shop but nothing much else in the new Yamaha line except a couple of trailies.

[Slingshot]

Sounds like a trip to TSS is in order. I have been in Motorad/Sawyers on a weekly basis recently and haven't seen it. Maybe I'm going blind. Or something. I've seen the promo banner on the Sawyers side of the shop but nothing much else in the new Yamaha line except a couple of trailies.

I saw it in Motorad just before Xmas, and TSS last weekend.

[moop]

Hi ..
I have Yamaha MT-01 for few weeks now. I would not swap it for anything! It is very good bike, incredibly stable and quick in corners for the weight and size!
If you wille have an opportunity, take it for test ride!
I used to ride bandit 1200, Vmax, GSXR,Monster 900, honda cb750 and cagiva canyon. MT is far the best of these!!
Martin

[Hitcher]

And they have that rockinghorse shit fear factor.

[Forest]

Interestingly, the MT-01 is the first bike in the last five years my wife has looked at and said:

"That looks so cool - why don't we get one of those?"

until she found out the price ...

A little blue kiwi bird told me that there's a run-out special on the 2007 MT-01

Only $18,000 plus ORC and it can be yours.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-115497188.htm

If I hadn't just bought a Ducati, I'd seriously think about getting an MT-01. It has torque in spades.