2025 Yamaha XSR900 – First Look

We’ll just have to keep on making due with the less-faired XSR900 Stateside for 2025. Not the end of the world, I suppose since the XSR900 is built on Yamaha’s excellent -09 platform. For 2025, the biggest XSR gets a new five-inch TFT display, smartphone connectivity, customizable YRC ride modes, Yamaha’s third-generation quickshifter and more. Many of these updates were first introduced on the MT-09 for 2024.

New Yamaha Ride Control (YRC) settings allow the selection of engine power characteristics and electronic intervention levels to suit conditions or rider preference. For quick selections, three integrated riding modes are programmed with factory settings to suit different situations: Sport, Street and Rain. Additionally, riders can create two custom programs with tailored settings to suit their preferences. The new Back Slip Regulator works in conjunction with the slipper clutch to reduce rear wheel lock ups by adjusting the throttle bodies to decrease back torque. A speed limiting function is now also available for the XSR900.

Yamaha tells us the XSR900 also features a new fully adjustable KYB monoshock offering preload, high- and low-speed compression, and rebound adjustment, along with a revised linkage design for an “enhanced feeling of traction at the rear.”

The new TFT display is carried over from the MT and features four layout themes and offers smartphone connectivity via Yamaha's Y-Connect app to receive message notifications, calls and listen to music. Additionally, full turn-by-turn navigation is available through the Garmin StreetCross app. As seen on the 2025 Ténéré, the XSR900 gets updated switchgears and self-canceling turn signals for the coming model year.