It's been 10 long years since Yamaha debuted the MT-09 (FZ-09), a super-accessible, affordable hooligan bike with an 847-cc triple motor full of concentrated fun exactly where street riders need it. Now,

Brembo supplies the brakes, with superbike-spec 320-millimetre discs up front squeezed by Stylema four-piston calipers and a radial master cylinder. Stainless steel brake lines and what Yamaha calls “aggressive pad compounds” should mean the R9 stops as well as it goes.