Ah, July. It’s the time of the year when OEMs usually start wheeling out the next year’s models, stoking the new-bike excitement in everyone who’s even the slightest bit interested in riding. It’s a time of great possibility, where we’re all simultaneously expectant and uncertain. Half-remembered rumored updates, credible (or sometimes incredible) leaks about upcoming models—all of it thickens into a sort of heady stew, simmering away.
The Yamaha Tracer 9 GT is a respectable mid-grade sport touring bike, which plenty of riders enjoy on a regular basis. Sure, it’s not as exciting as a Multistrada V4 S, but then again, it doesn’t want to be. Still, despite that fact, it seems that our colleagues at Motorrad have spotted one thing the two models might soon have in common. The German publication managed to snag spy shots of what appears to be the new T9 GT, testing on roads in southwestern Germany.
