Yamaha SCR950 Review at fortnine.ca

[Music] high cards scramble there ain't nothing to it until there is [Music] we got five players in the Scrambler game today I haven't seen this many since the Queen had a seat first one you'll meet is Italian stallions Italian in case you couldn't tell I think his Duke looks like a duck a little too European if you ask me but then again no one gives a [ __ ] because for the last two years he's king after that is bonnie bonnie is a good gal being around since before any of us you could say her triumph tries too hard met its new makeup on an old face but then again you wouldn't say any of that because she's the queen would Jermaine is the German don't ask why the German spelled his name in French some [ __ ] about global appeal what matters is that he's sitting on an overpriced Street but even when you go all in for the Scrambler game but Jermaine ain't got Jack and this is where you cheat you see sit but no one knows where he is anytime the Kings at the table we never do then there's me skid they say only a crasher would choose a scrambler based on a cruiser or that it's a kid's choice below 10 grand the kids choice it's good get it me neither but then again the jokes always on me everyone expects me to lose the Scrambler game to come last when the cards hit the table but what they don't know is that the ser 950 has an ace in the hole [Music] so how does the Yamaha bolt turned SCR 950 con its way to the top of the scrambler deck answer that question you'd better know what a scrambler is see 50 years ago if you wanted adventure you can grab a cheap bike anything really and then slap on some nabis and tall suspension remove unnecessary parts including your shirt and go balls of the wall and that was scrambling so if our SCR 950 is a bargain bin hack job pieced together with scraps that fell off the Yamaha bolt assembly line well that only increases its claim to scrambler hood same goes for the absence of modernity not a tickle of traction control no ABS BS and utter lack of mag wheels and tubeless tires a plank seat that scoffs in the face of ergonomics and to steel middle fingers saying piss off to plastic strangely the least analogue thing on this bike is the - I'd expect a needle but got a tiny prick of a digital screen instead a square display in a round hole now for every scram bleep art added there's one a scrambler would remove the slightly raised exhaust is a token gesture at best McQueen would have it off immediately shortly followed by the air box and of course is shirt but being perfectly imperfect and the only scrambler nutty enough to start from a cruiser is it somehow the most scrambling of them all are the number plates daring you to race it to flat track it to Hill climate - look at this a wildly inappropriate bass bike turned mildly prepared dirt bike and say yeah screw it let's do something ridiculous with the FDR 950 because when it comes to scrambler it doesn't get more authentic than that [Music] when I ride a scrambler it should have a heavy engine it should grab gears with a funky clunk and without rubber mount I should feel every explosion that kicks my ass forward a scrambler should have a leader of air-cooled v-twin so it heats up the same time I think it should have a single rotor and miniscule suspension so at the limit I'm hand fisting Weaver's and bottoming out shocks it should drag pegs super early so the only way to get an e down is to fall off it should make about 50 horsepower and 70 Newton meters at a low tachometer reading if it had a tachometer that way I'll be working the gearbox like crazy short shifting everything to keep up with the Ducati which make 20 more horses from one hundred and forty fewer cubes and 137 fewer pounds by the way a scrambler should tease a sixth gear that doesn't exist just so I know I'm faster than the bike because at the end of the day I want to feel like I'm riding the Baldauf thing and the SGR 950 is perfect because any noob can outride this bike it's a rock and Rolla but not by accident now cm AHA wanted a sport or your seat height thirty two point seven inches versus the bolts twenty seven point two but rather than raise the bike by raising the bike Politis designed to taller subframe to get the extra lift as a result the ground clearance only went up by 0.4 inches from five point one up to five point five that leaves the center of gravity easily flickable and the pegs hilariously scrape Abul it's an engineering joke now really cheap fix what it makes me feel like a name right in the ser on dirt claim feeling with the Torquay low end of a cruiser mother Theresa I could get flyaways on this thing then the power delivery is lazy and linear I couldn't lose it if I tried thrashing a cruiser off-road certainly isn't fast but it is surprisingly easy to do plus the ser looks bloody gorgeous out here the dirtbike bars the spoke wheels the rubber dust boots the seamless TT 500 tank the racing livery this thing might be more Sportster than scrambler but it's still the best-looking option of course there's no easy way to say that it weighs a quarter ton and I have more massive than our 1200 GS riding on a puny 4.7 and 2.8 inches of travel and we're going to go Matt why not welcome to the Scrambler experience notice how the tall bars let me stand comfortably at 6 foot 3 then notice how the shocks bottomed out through the hard seat and straight into my spot see the massive air filter bruising my knee off road and the bitey foot pegs hunting my calves like wild animals also notice how it skims the ground like a pot-bellied pig well Steve McQueen didn't have any more ground clearance than this and yammy does sell the sled to go onto these bottom rails so I guess I'm bulletproof or maybe I'm not maybe this is a jarring exhausting painful and mechanically risky experience but that's what scrambling is and at least when I break something I won't be trail side with a tricky triumph or a baffling BMW or a delicate Ducati or a doozy god help us the SCR 950 feels like a 1960 scrambler and that's because it's a rough-and-tumble offshoot of another bike which itself is an offshoot of a Harley for being honest every time I slam the throttle I feel reverberations from two or three motorcycles that don't belong out here and it feels perfect having said that now the thousand flavorful leftovers on this bike too have gone bad one is the engine's width bolts have always been inexplicably wide more like straddling a horse than a motorcycle this would be less of an issue if I got an equally wide tank with better gas mileage but instead the bolt is quite narrow between the knees and wide between the feet sock work second problem is the belt drive we all know why that's a very bad thing offroad so the SCR ain't really set up for the dirt they won't hit a postage stamp on the drift at 100 but it does hit something bigger the ace in the hole and the trick to coming out on top now see everyone thinks the scramble game is about balancing Street and dirt and they're trying to be the best of both worlds or second best or third best it'll realize that the game they're playing it's already over rules change and the best modern-day scramblers well they don't look like scramblers anymore the only hand left to play is the original one when scrambling was just about joking around hula getting with friends on cheap than underprepared motorcycles in this game being expensive is no good having heritage doesn't help and dominating off-road is beating a dead horse it's the hilarious SDR 950 The Joker that was never a joke that comes up aces [Music] [Music]

Channel: FortNine

Views: 814,183

Rating: 4.9032884 out of 5

Keywords: #scrambler, #yamaha scrambler, #yahamaSCR950, #SCR950, #bikereview, #motorcycle, #motorcyclereview, #guyritchiemovies, Klim Krios Carbon helmet, Black Brand Cutthroat Jacket, Icon Field Armor 2 Boots, Scorpion Klaw II Glove

Id: Tv-1wmRSxvM

Length: 11min 1sec (661 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 03 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/firebane]

Don't want to watch? The rundown is that modern scramblers really only have the name to go based off of but have nothing to really hold up to a scrambler.

If you want a bike to go off and on road get an adventure bike.

[u/sasstomouth]

These reviews are great. I can watch the more information focused ones to get an overall better understanding of the bike's strengths and weaknesses but these are high production entertainment. It's like a Top Gear feature except for bikes and made on a (hard to believe) shoe string budget. Love FortNine for daring to do something different!

[u/mehrlicht]

At first I loved the FortNine reviews-- they're always so slick and well produced. Recently, though, the elaborate plots and thematic conceits feel like a distraction from anything bike-related.

EDIT: I just watched this review again and I was even more frustrated by how it ends-- by stringing out the strained metaphor of the deck of cards to such a degree that the conclusions the reviewer makes about the Yamaha are almost totally obscure.

[u/TheArgentine]

I see this as more of a fashion/dirt road bike (with appropriate tires) than a true dual sport (which scramblers were never meant to be... see CL175/350 vs. SL175/350 in classic Honda terminology.)

These bikes arent meant to be comfortable or even fast, really... they're meant to be cool. And I think basically all of them have achieved that. I ride a bolt - its far from the best cruiser, but it is a damn cool cruiser, and fun at that. Sure, suspension is short and can be jarring. The lack of a tach is odd. But I actually enjoy riding this, vs something that is considered "better" like the CB500X.

The ducati is probably faster. The triumph is probably faster too. But this is probably a fun hooligan bike to slide around or just cruise around and enjoy the way it looks. And that's OK.

[u/Nic01101011]

I thought it was a good review. Better than all the safe mainstream ones that mindlessly rattle off the spec sheet of a bike without giving an opinion.

[u/epat0]

Why does every motorcycle journalist feel the need to go on about how each respective scrambler sucks off road or tell us to buy an adv/dual-sport for off road use? No shit. Just review it as a street bike. That's what it is.

[u/mrbulldop]

these are getting pretty obfuscated. i watch bike reviews for clear and direct info mixed with a bit of fun. this is pretty light on all accounts

[u/kingcheezit]

4mins 32secs of bullshit before we actually here anything worthwhile about the bike.

Gave up at that point.

[u/ForeskinCalamari]

As usual, /r/motorcycles falls into the trap of slick editing and well produced video. This video is extremely low on details, and for the amount of bagging he made on the bike, his conclusions don't make a whole lot of sense.

It's also pretty evident that he can't ride the bike very well. They go to a flat track...for a reason I can't fathom after seeing the footage and tool around in a circle. It's a flat track, back that bitch in.

If you want actual information about the bike and its performance, look elsewhere. All this moron does is wallow on what it doesn't have and why it isn't a scrambler and why the genre isn't up to his standards.