Video: Yamaha Tracer 700 – First Ride

Fresh from a Brexit comedown (and a non-fictional Glastonbury one too), 44Teeth headed to the Dolomites in Italy for the European press launch of Yamaha’s Tracer 700: a sports-touring middleweight based heavily on the MT-07.

First there was the XSR700 offshoot to appease the modern retro heads. Now there’s a genuine mile-munching option based on Yamaha’s budget best-seller. There’ll be a more detailed analysis up soon in the form of prose and sexy pics, including some vital, glaring omissions such as how the bike actually performs as a sports-tourer and a few techy soupçons. As you can probably fathom from the video, it’s quite good…