Rhino177

Not to mention keeping them clean sucks. 😆

I didn't like the leaf green rims on the FZ-10 when I originally bought it back in 2016 - at all. In fact it was my first bike that had any kind of color on it. All prior were monochrome. Before I even bought it I fully intended to change them to the matte gray on the rest of the bike. After a while though they grew on me and now I feel like changing it would kinda ruin the charm. I get where you're coming from though. This was definitely an acquired taste.

I imagine this is going to be a bit polarizing, but I had to do what I had to do. Earlier this year a friend of mine traded in his virtually brand new 2020 Tracer GT with a ton of upgrades including fully upgraded front and rear Race Tech suspension for a BMW scooter (the Tracer was less than 5 months old). I've been dreaming of the Tracer pretty much ever since I came into possession of a 2016 Kawasaki Versys 650. Given the Tracer was virtually new, all the upgrades I could ever want, and with a bonus being that Race Tech was already sprung and set up for my weight I just struck while the forge was hot and traded my Versys in for it. I absolutely love the Tracer, everything I'd hoped it would be and is easily one of my favorite bikes in the garage now. Here is where things went a little sideways; when I brought it home the wife almost immediately said it didn't look like a bike I would ride. When I asked her why she said it looked like an old man's bike (😆) and she didn't like the color. She asked how hard would it be to make it look like my other bikes. I already owned a 2017 FZ-10 and 2018 MT-07 in "Armor Gray" and knew all the color codes for it, so I took to Photoshop to figure out how I could change the color around and found a painter in my area to execute the plan. Part progress: And I present to you what I'm guessing is the first Yamaha Armor Gray Tracer 900 GT: I do not have any new family portraits yet but here is my FZ-10 side-by-side with the Tracer when I went to pick it up from the shop: The 10 is now in the shop getting it's 32k service done so once I have all the bikes back home again I'll recreate the first picture with all the Yami's lined up. I'm also still sourcing the "Tracer 900 GT" decals in black to complete the color swap back into an OEM condition so it's not quit 100% finished.

I dropped the 10 off at the shop for it's 32k service when I picked up the Tracer. I'll do a family photo shoot with all three again once I got em all back in the garage.

Just a little update on this one; I got the Givi windscreen and while it's not perfect it's much, much better. Also:

This has been my experience as well. I had the Givi windscreen on my Versys, no spoiler, and it was great. Could be cruising in the fast lane on the freeway with my visor wide open and using group coms with virtually zero wind noise. I just purchased another Givi for the Tracer but just simply looking at the wind screen's angle my bet is it's not going to change a whole lot as far as wind noise is concerned. It seems you're confirming this to be true. I bought a bunch of rubber spacers off Amazon to experiment with modifying the slope of the screen to work around this. I'm hoping a steeper incline might be the ticket.

I actually just bought Greg's 2020 Tracer GT. I'm an instructor here in San Diego and teach with him on the weekends. I went over to a BBQ at his place a couple weeks back to just hang out and check out the new scooter and he convinced me to trade my Versys in for it. Glad I did, love the bike. Small world!

This is exactly what opened my eyes to sport touring. I'm used to riding my naked bikes down to Chula Vista or Camp Pendleton @ 3am in the morning from the hills of Ramona and some of those trips it's in the 20's so it's a damn chilly ride. By the time I arrive my hands feel like they've been frozen over and smashed by a hammer and it takes a good hour or two to thaw out. Acquired a Kawi Versys and reluctantly took that down the hill for the first time with it's heated grips, grip guards, barn door windscreen and a heated jacket liner and it was at that very moment I realized I've been doing it horribly wrong for cold weather this whole time... I felt like a cave man that had just discovered fire.

I'm unfortunately pretty familiar with windscreen rabbit holes. I went down one a bit on the Kawi Versys but struck a happy balance with the Givi windscreen. I may try another Givi on the Tracer but my concern is the slope of the windscreen is pretty much angled right at my face. I'm unsure if any size windscreen at this juncture is going to make a difference if I don't change that incline a bit. Perhaps even 1/4" of spacers on the top bolts will be enough of an angle adjustment? Dunno, but I'll experiment a bit. I'm resistant to a shorter screen since I already have the FZ-10 with a fly screen & MT-07 with nothing. My true love is for the hyper naked and wouldn't change a thing about them - don't mind the wind one bit while I'm on them. The Tracer is just supposed to be the boujee bike. Thinkin' about those seat warmers, a big wind screen... maybe even cucumber slices, bidet and foot massager if I can work it out. 😆

I'm just up the road from you in Ramona! I'd certainly be down to check it out. I'm on a weird schedule where I work weekends. Is it taller/wider than the factory Tracer 900 Touring Windshield? Curious as to what you've settled on using yourself?

@wanderer Thank you! @knyte 👍 @Garybinnyc Yes! @texscottyd I'm loving it, so far it's pretty much what I wanted out of the box. Maybe a color swap and wind* screen mod is all I'm considering at the moment. @2and3cylinders I am familiar with the Hillcrest area. Used to go to RB Sushi over there all the time pre-COVID. I'm in Ramona. @Yamajank Yeah, not really feeling the red. Pretty sure I'm going to swap it to armor gray to match my other bikes!

Howdy folks, Been through about a dozen bikes but my most recent ones have been an FZ-10 and MT-07 for the last several years. Never saw myself as the sport touring type as I've traditionally always gravitated to naked standards. Buddy of mine hooked me up with a 2016 Kawasaki Versys 650 last December and, to my surprise, I really enjoyed it and was instantly hooked. Despite the plethora of things I loved about the Versys there were two pretty major snags I just couldn't stop being bothered by; 1) I really don't like the ninja 650 motor - at all - and 2) I commute for work a lot and was really missing the cruise control on the 10. Fast forward to present day and I've traded my Versys in for a 2020 Tracer 900 GT. I now have an engine that isn't putting me to sleep and cruise control. Everything I care about has been far better on the Tracer than the Versys save just the windscreen. The Givi I had on the Versys was vastly superior to the optional large Yamaha touring screen which I find to be "meh" at best. I otherwise love this bike! It also gets my infinity garage one step closer. I've got the 10, 09, and 07 now. All that is left is a 03 for the track and I will have unlocked infinite power! PS: From a theme standpoint it's a bummer about the red color of the Tracer but I'm thinking about doing something about it. Pic of my hair brained idea attached. PPS: Am I crazy or is the Tracer using the MT-07 rims? Are they 1:1 or are there differences?