2005 Yamaha MT-01 reviews

• 2005 Yamaha MT-01 (Motorcycle-usa.com)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2005 Yamaha MT-01

  Way back in the mists of time and another century, Yamaha unveiled a concept bike at the Tokyo show. That cobby machine was a concept bike called the MT-01. Those that saw it in the flesh were very impressed, as were those that poured over the pictures in the world's motorcycle magazines.
  
  Yamaha took the positive feedback and two years later delivered the BT1100 Bulldog in Europe, a bike supposed to be as good as that concept machine.
  

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• Yamaha MT-01 - hard-hitting urban warrior (Motoring.co.za)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2005 Yamaha MT-01

  A launch ride – for any bike – is usually pretty frantic; half your brain is trying to suss out a bike you're riding for the first time while the other half is trying to stay out of the way of some of the world's craziest riders.
  Bike – and car – companies lay out launch routes with the emphasis on safety and simple navigation; they tend to be mostly fast, open roads, not really representative of everyday riding. You only truly learn what a bike is about when you live with it for a while, as I did recently with Yamaha's immensely muscular 1670cc MT-01 V-twin.

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