Yamaha MT10 Prices and Specs

It's too expensive, you may as well get an S1000R for that price.

The ergonomics were very poor when I sat on one last Friday at a bike show and everything felt very cheap.
 
I'm wondering if it's possible for me to raise just £6000 for a new bike, I'd love to be able to spend £10k on a bike but if I could I don't think it'd be on a MT-10 doesn't do much for me and I think I'd die on one at this point.
 
If it was built a little better and didn't look so... "interesting" I'd be worth that much, just for the engine. But I agree, it felt cheap, the seat was mega-hard. It'll probably be a decent used bargain though in a year or 2, they'll probably go for about £8k used in 12 months time.
 
10K for an MT-10? Yamaha is having a laugh... Same with the MT-07, they raised the price for the 2016 model. :(
 
Im shocked how shocked everyone is of the price :confused:

It's pretty much the standard now, the z1000 is £9.5k, Tuono V4 1100 is £14k! Hell the speed triple is £10.5k

Most thousands are around the £10k mark now.

Prices of bikes are raising as they have all had to spent loads on new emissions regs.
 
I like the look but it appears so much like a Michael Bay Transformer that it actually seems unoriginal.

Stovepipes said:
I'm wondering if it's possible for me to raise just £6000 for a new bike, I'd love to be able to spend £10k on a bike but if I could I don't think it'd be on a MT-10 doesn't do much for me and I think I'd die on one at this point.
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I'd personally buy newish (<3 years). You can get get some great bikes for that money.
 
TripleT said:
Im shocked how shocked everyone is of the price :confused:

It's pretty much the standard now, the z1000 is £9.5k, Tuono V4 1100 is £14k! Hell the speed triple is £10.5k

Most thousands are around the £10k mark now.

Prices of bikes are raising as they have all had to spent loads on new emissions regs.
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The GSX-S1000 ABS is £9600, so it's not like the MT10 is cheaper than everything else. And I don't remember the GSX-S1000 feeling cheap when I rode it, it was a great bike - 145ish bhp so very decent power too.

But the base model S1000R is £10,350. The MT series is suppose to be good value, and has been with the bargain MT07 and MT09, but the MT10 is up there with everything else.

I think everyone expected the MT10 to come in nice and cheap, but instead it's no cheaper than anything else. Which is a shame, becuase it does feel cheap. They've obviosuly spent all the money on the engine :p

However... none of the others have the crossplane crank IL4. Best sounding IL4 ever, it's nearly a V4, just not quite... :D
 
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TripleT said:
Im shocked how shocked everyone is of the price :confused:

It's pretty much the standard now, the z1000 is £9.5k, Tuono V4 1100 is £14k! Hell the speed triple is £10.5k

Most thousands are around the £10k mark now.

Prices of bikes are raising as they have all had to spent loads on new emissions regs.
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Yamaha is nowhere near the standard of the BMW S1000R with their MT-10 but have priced it almost that same!

This is the cheapest bike they've made build quality wise that I've come across and they still have the balls to place it in the same price bracket as a far superior machine.
 
I didn't know they were billing it as "the cheapest bike in its class", to me it appears to be priced at the lower end of the naked thousand market which, given the engine, isnt bad going. (£500 difference is hardly massive). Remember the R1 which this is based on is £15k so they've got to make some cuts somewhere! :p

Ive not seen one in the flesh which is probably why I've not seen the apparent cheapness. Be interesting to see the reviews.

I agree the S1000r is hard to ignore but if you ask me that's cheap rather than this being expensive. But the RR is less than £14k too which compared to the r1, rsv is good.

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The GSX-S1000 ABS is £9600, so it's not like the MT10 is cheaper than everything else. And I don't remember the GSX-S1000 feeling cheap when I rode it, it was a great bike - 145ish bhp so very decent power too.
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So it's £400 more but is up on power with a much better, newer engine and a host of electrical aids (like them or loath them they still cost money). Not really bad IMO...

This sounds like I worship the ground the mt10 rolls on, I really don't, I'd take a s1000r too. I just don't think it's over-priced :p
 
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So it's £400 more but is up on power with a much better, newer engine and a host of electrical aids (like them or loath them they still cost money). Not really bad IMO...
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The GSX-S has full traction control, though the exhaust note of that crossplane engine is easily worth £400 :) I can see why peoples are maybe a bit disappointed with the price though, the rest of the MT series has set a bit of a bargain price precendent that the 10 doesn't meet.
 
Yer i think maybe the mistake was calling it an MT? Its heavily based on a £15k bike so to get it much cheaper would be hard.

The Suzuki is actually £9,999 too but that is fuglier IMO anyway :p
 
The R1S is a US only bike though, and it's a cheaper version of the R1. So techincally the MT10 is based on an R1 ;)

I do think they've spend the main budget on the engine though and that's why the quality of the rest of the bike may have suffered. Do we even know if it's got the up/down QS etc? I know it has nearly the same dash as the R1, B&W LCD instead of colour.

I suppose when you look at exotic bikes like the Monster 1200R at £15k or the Apilia V4R 1100 RR at £13k then it is pretty cheap... but it ain't no exotic italian supernaked, that's for sure!!!
 
Well it is based on the R1S, no matter how pedantic you want to be :p

It has the same cheaper built engine, electronics, dash and suspension. No quick shifter.
 
I didn't know it shared the suspension and electronics, but then again I doubt they'd put the full R1 package on a bike £5k cheaper.

If it's looks were a bit more 'normal' it'd be a lot easier to accept it, it's a bit of a black sheep in that area - can see it being a bit of an outcast, and loved by a select few :p
 
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