VOLUME ISSUE JANUARY , P83
We've gotta admit, that paint
scheme looks pretty angry!
MAKE MINE AN
SP, PLEASE, SIR.
S
ix months ago, I rode the
base model 2023 Yamaha
MT-10 in North Carolina and
came away pretty convinced that
this was the best value 1000cc
motorcycle on the market today.
In fact, I was so enamored with
the MT that I gave it my own per-
sonal Bike of The Year in Issue 50.
In August of 2022, the base MT
was under the magic $14K mark
(albeit by a measly dollar), and it's
gone up $200 at the time of this
writing to $14,199. Fast forward
to December of 2022 and I've
just got off the new MT-10 SP, the
SP badge reserved for Yamaha's
special bikes that extends all the
way back into the early 1990s,
with the YamahaTZR250 SP and
YZF-R1750 SP.
At $17,199, the SP version is
not all that different to the base
model. There's the same spec
motor, the same electronics, the
same brakes, and the same body-
work dimensions.
So, what's different?
OUR (MY) BIKE OF THE YEAR FOR 2022 HAS JUST BEEN
GIVEN THE SP TREATMENT. TIME TO GO FOR A RIP!
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK I PHOTOGRAPHY JOSEPH AUGUSTIN
