Yamaha MT10 My 8 year owners review. What’s good, what’s bad

Ride and review of my Yamaha MT10. It’s 8 years old and covered 34,000 miles. How’s it holding up?
00:00 Start at Sutton Wharf Café Sorry about the buzzing audio
00:46 Why do I still own this bike?
01:47 How much did an MT10 cost back in 2016?
03:19 Best thing about an MT10
04:10 The MT10 Quick-shifter
04:55 Why no loud exhaust?
05:59 Is the Yamaha MT10 reliable?
06:33 Do I buy the new model MT10?
07:45 Why ride a super naked bike?
09:37 How bad is fuel consumption/range on an MT10?
10:55 Can you tour on an MT10?
12:38 Static walkaround of the bike. How’s it holding up?
18:40 Should you buy an MT10?

hello good morning and welcome to a new video and today I am at Sutton Warf now it’s a bit of a special anniversary for my mt10 it’s very nearly 8 years old 34,1 45 miles W sorry if it’s going to be a bit windy it’s a really wind wind the day out today now there is a big reason I’ve still got this bike and it’s because it’s such an exciting bike to ride I absolutely love the way this bike goes me for th000 cc machine it just it really handles well I like these uh mitchellan Road Six Tires that are on it they do everything handle the wet and they’re really sticky in the dry as well a great handling machine and I’m comfortable on it I’m a big guy I’m uh 6’3 and I’m all day comfortable on this bike we Bridge you think it’ll te a 19 Stone bloke on an [Music] mt10 now it’s uh May 2024 at the moment and I bought this way back in June 2016 and I bought it from Arnold Yamaha in Burton on Trent for the princely sum of 99,900 I think it was 90 which I thought was an absolute bargain at the time and I still think was a bargain that was cheap for this bike and I’ve continued to use Arnolds over the years they’ve serviced it annually and it’s booked in there again in a another week to get it ready for when we head over to the Pyrenees it’s not very often I’m off the leash without uh Carol with me so I uh I need to be a little bit careful because I’ve got this tendency to to be a bit Larry occasionally on my own and that’s why I really have uh chosen to follow Carol she’s calmed me down over the years we’ll see right similar color to my wheels you know the best thing about this bike it’s it’s the adrenaline rof riding it it is so fast accelerate so hard who now the thing about this bike it’s uh quite a short wheelbase and it’s uh it’s got the tendency to wheelie and wheelie a lot and that’s what the fame is for really oo CU I didn’t meet him the quick shifter on this bike uh was an optional extra when I bought it I think every bike after 2016 had them fitted anyway well this is just the Yamaha quick shifter just goes up no blipper down flippers weren’t a thing when I bought this really I’ve not even deced this bike I’d say uh a good 75% of of everybody that buys an mt10 decats them put a low exhaust on not for me I’m afraid I love the sound but my teners can’t cope with it another reason uh I haven’t got allowed exhaust is because we ride abroad a lot and uh I don’t particularly want to attract the attention of uh foreign law enforcement not had it Dino I’ve not had the exhaust done uh I’ve had more touring oriented things done there a satinav and powered saav hold a g in there of got the S SW motch tank bag here I’ve got a g carrier and box on the back and uh that’s going to change soon because we’ve got some Shad luggage ordered and uh we’re just waiting on Shad UK to uh to deliver them for us looking forward to having those on the back which makes touring a little bit more secure on this bike now I know I’m going to Temp fate here when I say this but the reason I’m hanging onto this bike and the reason I love this bike is it’s been super super reliable all I do is keep putting tires on it keep getting it service make sure the oil’s changed everything’s done to the specifications and uh so far so good I have considered the new mt10 the new well slightly different shape isn’t it it’s still basically the same uh crossplane 1000cc engine I’m not sure I like the looks I don’t really like the looks of the front end of this bike it’s too insectoid and but I think I dislike the new one even more so it’s just it’s just not doing it for me and why why change I think Arnold made a a lowball offer when I inquired probably a year and a half ago I think we offered like five grand or something for this which I wasn’t interested in really and uh why change a perfectly good bike why another thing I like about this bike is it’s a uh it’s his ability to overtake another thing I really like about a super naked bike is yes it’s really fast really fast but being a Naked Bike you’ve got no protection really and that no protection it restricts how long you can go at really fast speeds and it’s another thing that maybe help you keep your license I mean a super bike tucked in 150 160 m hour you know you got it’s it’s it’s jail speed isn’t it whereas this is so much fun sort of from yeah from zero to zero to 100 really it is an absolute animal it’s there’s no other bik like it well none that I’ve ridden anyway excitement fun reliability what more do you want I think the thing that would convince you to buy one of these is’s actually getting out and riding one I wasn’t convinced at all when I first saw it first saw it in the November stroke December of 2015 was a surprise offering at the yamaho stand at the NEC and I really wasn’t sure then but then I took one out once folks started raving about it and uh that was it once you ridden it you’ve uh you’ve got to have one believe it or not when I bought it I had no idea the fuel consumption was going to be so bad no idea I think it’s marginally better than when I bought it mainly because the engine’s got some miles on it completely running but I think when I looked this morning the average fuel consumption was still 39 MPG and that’s follow following Caroll around at a very sedate Pace you can get that down if you want and that is really its biggest downside it’s fuel consumption fuel consumption and only 17 L tank if you’re really on it hammering it around the Lanes on the brakes a lot you can empty completely empty that 17 L tank in under 100 miles normal ride in uh you’ll probably get 110 if you’re on a Mota to constant 70 or 80 you’ll probably get about 130 140 mil to the tank so yeah when we are on tour we do plan our tour stops quite carefully but it hasn’t stopped us visiting lots of fantastic places on this on this bike and non caroll’s street triple we rode all the way down to carass near the Pyrenees right the way through France before uh we’ve done the Alps uh we’re heading back to the Pyrenees this year to Scotland you can do big miles if you can be bothered to stop it in enough filling stations I think the biggest miles I’ve done on this are probably around about 500 miles and that was getting all the way up uh towards the top of Scotland in a day and it was a really really wet day though I think we just wanted to get there and the only other downside of a naked bike obviously when the weather’s really bad well you just get all the weather at you but the plus side is mainly we riding in hot countries and when we were in the uh the Alps last summer it was over 40° and boy I was glad I hadn’t got a screen I don’t understand these people that put these huge screens on the bikes and then you’re absolutely sweltering can’t get the Breeze by you anyway shall we uh find somewhere to pull in and I’ll take you walk around the bike show you how it’s fairing over these years what’s looking good still what’s maybe not looking quite as good this is what she looks like after8 years who really thinks it’s a good idea to have yellow wheels believe you me those yellow wheels were perfectly clean before I set off today we’ve got quite a few Stone chips you can probably see on the uh stanions there the uprights there’s one of two Stone chips on the front here down here obviously I’ve kept the cat you little paint peel in there pain paint chips and and bits just coming off there but overall she still looks pretty damn good to me I’ve still got the original tail on it and there’s a tiny bit of rust on the on the hanger there but nothing much paint on the tank still looks pretty good nothing’s degraded there nothing’s really rubbed off it’s pretty thick tough paint although I don’t ride it much in the winter but it does get ridden in the wet yeah front wheels have got Stone chips and the odd Mark but they’ve been on on and off a few times you know forgotten how many Tire changes it’s had the other must on this bike is uh see I can get it better outside is a radiator guards and oil cooler guards I wouldn’t go anywhere without those on lots of people swear by the guards over the Lights I’ve gone 8 years and 30 3 4,000 Mi and I haven’t broken a headlight yet but I am tempted fate another not very good thing on these uh these bikes is the mirrors themselves the uh the arms are too short you can’t really see by your elbows but again I’ve never found them that bad I felt the need to change them plenty of people put extensions on them change the bar ends I’ve not bothered it’s still pretty standard but one of the things that does really annoy me and I I like keys I’m not a fan of keyless bikes but getting the key in and out especially if you carry any of the keys on your fob past the clutch cable the clutch cable goes right over the top of it I think this is just in a stupid place there we go 34,1 180 now obviously this older bike’s got the old screen on newer bikes have got a full color it’s all fancier with more things you can do in the menu the menu is fairly basic on this I think there’s two or three different levels of traction control and quite a few people complain that the seat’s not comfortable but and rocks around fix that several times I’ll give up now but it’s a fairly poor design by Yamaha all it is the rubbers underneath crushed down and uh it’s still fastened on but it just rocks It’s seems like it’s loose but it’s uh it’s still fixed to the bite but the thing I do like about it is the width of the the seat that is all day comfortable no matter what anybody else will tell you some people will say it’s thin and uh you can have the Comfort seat which gives it uh probably another CM 2 cm higher so it gives you a little bit more leg room and some say it’s more comfortable but uh I’ve never felt the need for the comfort seat on it that’s the amaha quick Shifty down there that’s worked faultlessly since uh the day it was Ed no other real issues on this bike do like the road Six Tires on it probably stick with those tires now the engine itself it’s not used any oil in between changes not had to top it up at all I have had different pads put in by Yamaha at the service pads seem pretty good for me plenty of braking some people say the brake feel a bit wooden but uh again depends whether you’re a a racer who’s used to something pulling it up with two fingers there plenty of braking for me I don’t need it to be any more Fierce back brake works fine it’s just been a really really great Dependable exciting bike and uh I can’t see any reason to change it will I be doing a 10-year review on it might be anyway should you buy one of these bikes well of course you should everybody deserves a bit of excitement in the lives don’t they I’m going to keep this bike and I’m going to keep riding it I’m going to pull up with the fuel consumption and I’m going to enjoy it anyway thanks very much for watching and uh we’ll catch you again on the next video bye-bye