Yamaha MT09 SP 2021 | 1500 Miles and Beyond! | Long Term Review

Let's ride the 2021 Yamaha MT 09 SP past the 1,500 miles and beyond! Join me for a long term review update of the MT09 SP as I walk you through the challenges I've encountered so far with this awesome motorcycle, plus some of the other things I'm loving about the 2021 Yamaha MT09 SP! Things covered in this long term review are, the quick shifter, indicators, headlight performance at night, engine braking and fuel economy!

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0:00 MT09 SP 2021 Review Intro
1:31 Indicator issue and how to solve
3:33 MT09 SP Quickshifter
8:19 Downshifting into 1st gear
12:06 Wind protection
14:32 Power and wheelies
15:55 Engine braking
17:19 Cost to fill up
20:20 Good first bike?
21:14 Daytime running lights
20:15 Night riding
24:51 Fuel economy
25:40 Summary

[lold]

Supermarket fuel never goes in my bikes. Shell V-Power every fill up.

[Boombatty]

The gears problem you’ve highlighted is caused by not putting enough pressure on your upshifts. All bikes will do this, try quick shifting a bike without a quick shifter. You just need to be firmer and make sure you take your foot away from the lever also to let it go fully back. The quick shifter being so good on these makes us get a little sloppy with our changes. I’ve had a few bikes with quick shifters and my mt09 is by far the best, far better than my Ninja 1000 sx that I also have at the mo. Great video reviews you do, enjoy them immensely.

[wwfww]

You should get a radiator protector grill, 100% worth it

[mikehailwood]

Not sure if i could be one of the oldest to have one of these at 66, i've had bikes for 50 years and this is one of the best i've owned, i have had both front indicators pop out, googled it and someone explained how to put them back which worked fine, no problems with the gearbox, this was my first with a quick shifter, how did i manage before? one reason i chose this bike was the riding position and high bars, nothing but pain on a sports bike so i thought that was it for me, then i tested this bike, i quickly signed up for one, but you don't have to be an old git to enjoy this bike, cruise control and 60+ to the gallon comes in handy.

[tonydavis]

Love that cyclop look with the headlight!

[Steve-XTC]

The "Gas" station! and I thought you were in England! 😄 Here in the UK we call them Petrol stations, just teasing Dude.

[KHIJAPAN]

I ride the exact same bike. To start with, I had similar problem with the gear popping to neutral. BUT, I am riding very hard and within 6000 km I changed the tires S22 3 times. 2K km each set. At about 5 K km the problem with missing gear stopped. What I do though when up shifting from 1st to 2nd I always engage the clutch.
I did a lot of mods on my bike and weights 180 kilos fully fuelled, 169 empty of fuel.
I may do a video of the mods. Cosmetic and more serious like Woolich Racing full kit, Akrapovic racing full exhaust DNA filter...
The bike is ultra fast and easily mix with bigger bikes in the twisty. In my case most of the time I am ahead but may be my friends are slow 🤣🤣🤣
My bigger proble so far is to keep the front wheel on the ground. It is very powerful after all those mods. The biggest plus is that the bike is small and agile and very stable. I trust the front 100%

[maldridge]

Change the angle of the shifter; missing gear engagement occasionally will be fixed. I did and no more complaints

[SinghDynamite]

The quick shifter is meant to be used from 2nd gear upwards. Between gear 1 and 2 the clutch should be used. The reason for this is that there is Neutral (N) between them and there is chance of a false Neutral (N) when upshifting. Also the shifting should be firm otherwise the gear may not select. The indicators are designed to pop out when knocked rather than breaking off, saves you money in the long term.

[anthonyosmond]

Hi Eddie like you I had a few issues with the quick shifter. I adjusted my gear lever slightly so that it returned to a more natural position for my foot and that seemed to cure it. The only other problem I had was wearing out the gear lever rubber! But that's due to the hard plastic pad on my boots, only a fiver for a new one! 4500 miles on my sp now, absolutely love it, I have switched to Metzler m9rr tyres as the s22 tyres wore out really quickly. The Metzler's are really good. Mine is in this week for a Dyno tune as Woolwich racing have cracked the ECU! Happy daze more power I find it runs very lean when it's hot! Common problem with euro 5 bikes and it has stalled occasionally. Great channel. I will update with my power figures all on a standard exhaust because I like it. Cheers Tony

[darylsummer]

Nice, I like how you explained the issues you had, but don't overdo it! A little more about the things you liked, unless there wasn't any. Cheers

[smallbobcato.g.]

Ive swapped my indicators out before having a single mile on the bike (my area uses lots of salt on the roads during winter) but it was my understanding that they are designed to pop out of the sockets when they are hit to avoid breaking in the event of a drop or maybe bumping it with your leg while getting on. For the QS i know you need to be deliberate with your shifts and above 2200 rpm if im not mistaken. Also cant be used to go into neutral up or down so maybe the bike thinks your either trying to go to neutral or just not enough pressure.

[ThrottleCEOPersonal]

So, the main reason why you are able to knock out those turn signals so easily by just accidently hitting them is actually a safety feature for them. If they were hinged in their spot and you would accidently hit them, you would instead break them, which would end up being costly. Them popping out actually saves you a lot of money in many cases, better to have to put it back than to have to change it. This functionality has saved my turn signals twice in two different slides, so it helped a lot keeping down the costs of low-siding while riding a bit too hard, heh.

[bajo]

Just for anyone who doesn’t know, only because I recently discovered it, you shouldn’t use the quick shifter between first and second gear up or down or it can lead to long-term damage. Not made for that apparently. In the manual. Great video man

[ashten]

My Ducati panigale had the same quickshift problem, turned out to be chain tension. Make sure it's in spec.

[jasonfriedland]

Hi Eddie, great video :-) what's the tail tidy you have on your MT09SP? Thanks!

[astrostrotch]

I've read all the comments about the indicators but nobody has actually said this is something that Yamaha should address. It's poor design. If you look around a bike meet, half of modern Yamaha's have them hanging out! Dealerships are the same. As regards the quickshifter, mine improved drastically after about 3k miles, and a more deliberate action helps. Really good review.

[DJSixty]

I had the big screen from Yamaha and for me was the best thing I did! It’s now almost a touring bike.

[MrArtisticGuy]

Hey Eddie, Thanks for the content. It helped me to make the decision to buy my new "23" MT-09-SP which I have been quite enjoying as I near my 600 mile service interval here in California. You mentioned a quick shifter / shifting issue in your 600 mile Vlog. I almost got into serious trouble yesterday because I was making a pass which would otherwise have been an easy one but the bike stuck in third gear and would not shift up to forth. I tired 2 times before going for the clutch and then it still would not budge. Being almost at 600 miles and had just made the decision to push it up to 7K RPMs for the first time but I was forced to take it up to 9, 500 RPMS to make it around the slower traffic in time to beat the oncoming traffic because it would not go into 4th. 6 attempts to shift at or above 7K RPM, with and without the clutch were all unsuccessful. I finally have to slow down to the point that I could downshift first before going back up again. For some reason it doesn't like up-shifting from 3rd or 4th or 4th to 5th at mid to high RPMs. You don't mention the issues here in this 1500 mile Vlog. Have you figured out what was going on and how to remedy the issue?? This is dangerous as hell and now that I'm about to do my first service and go beyond the low RMP break-in period, I need to figure this issue out. HELP??

[andyh]

Great vid as always Eddie 👌
Picked up my mt09sp last month, just had its first service and loving it. Noticed the indicator had come out after a few days too, thought I had just nudged it, bit fiddly to get back in but all sorted. Funny to hear its a thing though and I'm not the only one!