Another most hotly but probably the most longly anticipated bike in the motorcycle universe. It's a new Yamaha 10RA 700. We've seen it in a few rounds of shows now Mark. It was here last year in a prototype form although as I recall it. Possibly a show even pretty much. It's been a long time coming as I understand it. Deals still can't get their hands on it for another period of time. There's been a lot of time developing this much so clearly it's a huge important bike for them isn't it? Really important and actually when we were out in Red Tread this year riding off-road in Spain it was one of the bikes that Ed was quite talking about quite a lot actually. Obviously there's always this crossover between his adventure style bikes being ridden on the road and actually can you actually do anything off-road with them? No absolutely. This is going to be a genuine bike that you really can take off-road. We talked about this didn't we quite a lot with the new KTM 790 and I think the distinct difference and I'm probably one of the reasons why it's taking Yamaha. The period of time it has to kind of get this ready and officially launch it and send it out to the dealers as they're wanting to get the off-road aspect of this bike and its performance off-road absolutely right. And honestly looking at the bike when you make a comparison and I'm not sure it's fair to make a direct comparison between this and the KTM but when you do make a comparison to me this looks very much off-road orientating. When you look at all the marketing speed or you sort of look at the promo videos that's where you see the bike being shot right it's not on-road. Do I think you'll ride a KTM road? I'm sure it will. You know you talk about it. It's got MT07 engine which is a cracking engine. Oh I'm in 75 horsepower. Nice amount of power. I've obviously ridden that bike. Yeah. I remember riding that bike thinking like this is super. You know it really does go. Our loads of carrots, loads of pork, loads of tour, lightweight, you know, low centre grudgesy so you would expect it to perform really well. You know and having been to Benat for the South of Spain ourselves. You know the YZF250's that we were riding only made what? 40 on horsepower. It felt like I ripped my arms off of this bike. So when you think, I mean the only thing we don't know at the moment, I mean we can make, we can probably speculate reasonably accurately on how this is going to, what this is going to way. But you know we know the bike may 75. It's going to have a dry weight between 150, 170 kilos. Oh it's awesome. You know the other thing of course is if it's primarily an off-road bike you're going to have to pick it up. Yeah. Well you are if you're me. You're definitely have to pick it up if you're me. So yeah. You know it can't be super heavy. It can't can it. Obviously proper off-road bike. Look at the length of travel on the suspension. This is going to be a proper tool. It's actually not that hard to get on and off. It's probably easier than the WR250F by quite some way to get on and off. But the other thing that I absolutely love about this bike and I've not seen this on any of a equivalent bike actually is you know everything stuck out that's meant to be stuck out. You know like look at this handlebar between the front wheel. Yeah. You know you're going to drop this and if you are going off-road you will drop it at some point. You know you're not going to smash the all the plastics in I don't think. I think it looks really thin. It looks really well considered. It's got a proper back at some guard. Not a nod to one. It's actually a proper you know this is going to be a proper tool. Well that's you just mentioned it. How narrow it is. That's another start you know obvious similarity between this and a kind of proper motor crosser isn't it? A really narrow bike or one PC. You know you're going to be standing on the pegs the whole time. So he's very much focused on that type of bike riding. Although you know when you look if you want to there's a bike behind us with all the accoutrements on it so of course kind of adventure prep, tarpaniers, boxes, engine, engine protector, additional lights you know you can you can dress it. It's almost like a Dakar type style isn't it? It is. You can imagine just just basically just firing it up right in any direction you want and it will go there. So yeah it's going to be interesting. It's just a shame that the bike is taken so long to come to market. No. And just the final plug-ed is going to be doing red trade. He's going to be doing the tenoray off-road in tours into next year. So I think he's taking bockins now for it although the dates and all that are not confirmed yet but you know if you wanted to try one of these machines I'd super recommend getting in touch with red trade about it. Of course. Do you think if we mentioned it during our video we might we get might get the opportunity to go ourselves? Well that's what I'm kind of banging on. So I think one of the other things that you're probably remiss to mention and I know that the bike hasn't been officially launched yet and nobody is giving any official figures but I think it's probably sensible to speculate a little bit on where it's going to sit pricewise and this is important I think because again when you look at the sort of wider panacea of bikes like this although I think this kind of stands alone in some respects the wording is the whisper is say it's finally less than nine grand. That's the nine grand potentially. Wow I mean that is really competitive. And that's the first time you've heard that and that's the kind of reaction that I have when somebody mentioned to me it was going to be less than that and you kind of so really accessible. Quite exactly. You know if you think you're a buddy in off-road and you want to graduate from something like a crosser or something you think about doing some touring, doing some off-road riding you know that I mean you you know you think what price is a GS what price is an 850 GS you know again we don't know what that KTM 790 is. But you're going to be way north to 10 11 to 30 it could be more you've added a few bits and pieces to it under night. Well I guess you know it probably makes sense to me. What gives you some context doesn't it? Absolutely. Absolutely what we've been talking about. Well and I think this is the thing with the M.I you know look at the MT range you know one of the things that's really competitive really great value motorcycles and this is very much alongside that so fingers crossed it. It's actually that price. Fantastic so well I hope you've enjoyed that first little look from Knox about the Yamaha 10-ray 700 cutway to ride it. We've got all the gear to go with it. Please like this video please comment please subscribe to the channel too and please buy some products bloody hell.