YAMAHA SR400 - Fun little single but needs another 10bhp

YAMAHA SR400 - Fun little single but needs another 10bhp

Overall Rating
4 out of 5

The SR400 could really do with the original’s extra 100cc or 8-10bhp more; for anyone over 5ft 10in it’s too cute to be cool and, at £5200 I can’t help feeling it’s a bit rich, too. After all, the SR has no more moving parts than the YBR125 and yet its development costs were surely wiped out an ice age ago. So why does it cost £2350 more?

But make the SR nearer £4K, give it the old 500 barrel and reintroduce the larger,cooler XT trailie version and I’d be down my local Yam dealer before you can say ‘thumper’.