The XSR 900 Abarth is the latest in that line, There’s so much going on with the Abarth it’s hard to know where to begin. Is it with the absolutely barking mad riding position Or maybe Yamaha’s unique, limited edition collaboration with a car tuning company, How about that arresting café racer styling and the Abarth’s spectacular abundance of carbon fibre and that stonking afterburner seat cover, Or instead perhaps we should discuss how the special XSR 900 might be a pivotal moment, when customising previously functional machines into show ponies is legitimised by factory blessing, And how maybe that splashing sound you can hear is the sound of hipsters jumping the shark. The Abarth is an XSR 900 Yamaha’s retro flavoured three cylinder naked streetbike with a carbon based café racer makeover. It’s a limited edition from a total, never to be repeated, build of 695 bikes, 100 have come to the UK and 40 are already pre sold via and online reservation process. Although ‘come to the UK isn’t quite the case, the bike arrives as a stripped XSR 900 and a dealer bolts on the various Abarth components when it’s sold. All of which you’ll notice are cosmetic and ergonomic changes, So the Abarth’s suspension, wheels, brakes, clocks, pegs, engine and electronic rider aids are standard as per the XSR 900. And that’s why it’s not a surprise to find the Abarth’s engine does all the things the standard XSR 900 motor does so, so well the 847cc inline triple makes 115 brake horsepower at 10,000 revolution per minute and combines incredible, silky smoothness with a stunningly funky power delivery. It’s a brilliant engine with a typically naughty power delivery geared by Yamaha to deliver mischief and illicit behaviour in large quantities, It can’t keep a straight face. But what is a surprise is how dramatically the Abarth’s radical riding position affects the XSR steering, weight balance and general handling dynamic. In essence the XSR 900 Abarth is the fruit of a joint marketing exercise between two companies who go back a bit together. Abarth are an Italian Fiat owned tuning company, with a long history of tweaking the pants off small bore motors. The connection with Yamaha is primarily Moto GP based Fiat have been team sponsors, and Abarth currently supply cars for the team. In 2007 Rossi raced an M1 in Abarth colours at Phillip Island and, in 2008 Abarth and Yamaha were a gnat’s away from producing a limited edition FZ1, a prototype was built and shown but the production bike never materialised.
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