I have added:
Rack and Givi V46 top box
Yamaha soft luggage
QD supports for soft luggage
SW-Motek engine bars
Front mudguard extender
Oxford hot grips
R&G radiator guard
Coming soon:
Rear mudguard extender.
other wants:
mirror extenders
shorter screen
I collected the bike today and did 120 miles. Consumption was shown as 62.2 MPG.
I could have done more but I was with friends who wanted to eat and drink tea etc.
First impressions
Steers really well, quicker in the turn and much more planted than my Glee.
Brakes are very good and there is no unsettling fork dive when stopping
Seat is narrow enough at the front to take the sting out of the high ( to me) seat height and I can get both feet flat on the ground. Seat is V shaped ( in plan) and gives good support and is long enough for some wiggle room. It is firm as a new seat always seems to be with more padding than my SX although not in the same league as a strom.
Footrests are set back further than the Glee but are low and so I had no knee discomfort.
Bars, more comfortable than they first seem. I had no pains or numbness.
Screen. Hopeless.... I hope to find or fabricate something much smaller that will protect the display and a Sat Nav and leave me in clear air. The OEM screen starts too low to ever be high enough to offer anyone over 5'8" much in the way of protection. It is a variable position screen but set low it causes buffeting to the neck and chin and at the top position it provides a jolly good wind hammering to the helmet from the visor up.
17" wheels front and back with road only tyres which have no pretentions to being "off road" make me wonder why it is dressed up with rather large and overly complicated hand guards. Their shape dictates the cut outs in the front body panels and the silly screen design.
They may be good at protecting hands from the rough foliage through which it will never pass on those tyres, but they are nowhere near as good at keeping out the weather as the Glee's basic looking but quite effected offering.
Yamaha seem to have done all they can to not have a front end like a Strom or the Versys.
What they have produced is very attractive but utterly useless. Of course it's only my view and I like frontal weather protection.
What could have been a class leading bike has been cocked up by a committee of "stylists"
I think they got engineers to design the bike and a bunch of hairdressers to design the front end.
Clutch is light and progressive
Lights seem to be LED all round although I have not used it in the dark yet.
Display / dash - easy to read and holds a lot of info in its menus
Digital rev counter and easy to read speed, gear indicator, petrol gauge etc.
Running-in limit is a maximum of 5600 for 600 miles this is well over 70mph
Motor spins freely but does not 'run away with itself'.
Gearbox, selecting 1st is like throwing a hammer into bin of hammers. Selection thereafter is a bit crunchy but this may be due to being "sharp edged new" and it may wear into a smoother unit in time.
All in all it is a really good ride and I am sorry to say that trading the Strom for this Tracer is the best move I could have made. Maybe the strom could feel as good if it was fitted with 17" wheels with improved braking and USD front forks.