VOL. 54 ISSUE 12 MARCH 28, 2017 P115
YAMAHA GIVES ITS FZ-09 A MAKEOVER
BY KIT PALMER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DREW RUIZ
T
hree years since its debut in 2014, the
Yamaha FZ-09 received its first significant
upgrade, and much of those upgrades
were inspired by the four-cylinder FZ-10, the
new flagship in Yamaha's now very popular FZ
"naked bike" line. Some might say that the high-
tech FZ-10 is a stripped down version of Yama-
ha's supersport YZF-R1S. I suppose you could
say that, but the FZ-10, which, like the FZ-09,
falls into the naked sportbike category, shares a
lot of the R1's DNA, and some of that DNA has
now trickled down to the FZ-09.
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