The Yamaha MT-10 is an underrated motorcycle, that isn’t helped by its polarizing “Johnny 5” styling cues. It’s fun, it’s powerful, and it’s affordable.

For many years after its initial debut, you couldn’t go wrong putting an MT-10 in your garage. But then time marched on.

Yamaha let the MT-10 languish for too long without an update, as its European competitors began to up their ante, offering more feature-packed streetfighters to the segment.

For the 2022 model year though, the tuning fork brand is hoping that sport riders will once again remember that Yamaha has a horse in this race, and that the MT-10 is once again the bargain-buy it used to be.

Getting a modest restyling and a bevy of key updates, the 2022 Yamaha MT-10 is certainly worth a look.