Brute in a Suit: Yamaha XSR900 Review

The dust had hardly settled on the XSR700 launch when Yamaha started teasing their next release. It started with Roland Sands' Faster Wasp—a brutal custom FZ-09 inspired by the flat track. It was obvious that Yamaha was poised to release a big brother to the XSR700. And right on cue, they revealed the XSR900 at the Italian EICMA show. Like the XSR700, the XSR900 is a restyled version of an existing Yamaha model. It has the same rolling chassis and power plant as the FZ-09 (known as the MT-09 elsewhere), but wrapped in a more refined package. That puts it...