25 October 2024

Yamaha finally confirms new R9 for 2025

Yamaha has long drawn on its extensive racing experience – and success – on both track and road to develop an enviable range of supersports bikes.

This is once more evident in the new and long awaited R9, an impressively specified, class topping machine.

It’s set to hit showrooms for the 2025 season. Start salivating now.

 

What Yamaha is promising with its forthcoming R9 – the YZF R9 – to give it its full title – is a new home for the company’s fantastic and well-proven cross-plane triple which is to be housed in a supersport chassis.

This is a formula the Japanese giant has more than proven itself capable of delivering.

The engine benefits from the company’s own Yamaha Chip Controlled Throttle. This little piece of magic helps deliver ignition timing and fuel mapping, all designed for a supersport bike even though the motor is shared across a number of platforms.

This one puts out a shade over 117bhp and has the usual three standard fuel map settings along with four more for the track and even two that the rider can customise to suit their own riding style.

There is, of course, a quick shifter.

Well framed

The frame, meantime, was designed just for the R9. It’s a gravity-cast aluminium Deltabox. Like the R1 and R6 before it, it’s engineered for sports bike use.

Because Yamaha has such a huge amount to draw on, putting a package like this together will have been a no brainer.

After all, the R1 was in production from all the way back in 1998 – the manufacturer’s MotoGP and WSB victories are well known and its success at road racing is also well established.

Winging it

The new R9’s styling is race inspired and incorporates T those all-important winglets. They’re not just there for show.

They generate 10% more downforce during cornering, making for a faster, more sure-footed, riding experience.

Stopping is done via a Brembo front master cylinder.

A radial unit  – another recent evolution from MotoGP – this delivers to a pair of Stylema monoblock calipers via braided hoses.

The new 43mm KYB inverted front forks have been fully re-designed and now feature individual adjusters for rebound on the right and compression damping on the left.

The rear has preload, rebound and compression adjustability. This last one can be used to adjust ride height.

In control

Brake, traction and even slide control are standard and all managed via the bike’s IMU and ECU.

Launch control and a back slip regulator to manage sudden engine braking, are also part of the package.

All of the information the rider needs is available through the TFT display which comes with smartphone connectivity via Yamaha’s MyRide app. There are four different ‘themes’ to choose from on the screen. One of them is a track-only one.

A second app is track-orientated and goes by the name of Y-TRAC.

The new R9 will be available in time for the ’25 season and while prices are yet to be confirmed, it’s always a good idea to get an order in now if you want one.

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