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Originally Posted by tremens
well, it's true yamaha and honda have dropped build quality in recent years but tenere has reputation as bullet proof bike and has taken RTW many riders without any issues. You had to abuse yours good or just a bad luck.
It's so simple bike that not much can go wrong there unless you blow up the engine. If you have 2009 tenere which had some problems indeed then it would explain. Mine 2015 tenere has only 15k km so cannot compare but no
problems other then correcting some QA factory assembly job. Love the bike and I did a off-road rally as well on it.
As for the crf250l, this is bike is so delicate and soft it wouldn't make serious over landing RTW other then girlish street/gravel riding. Mine after year of off-road abuse was in really bad shape when I sold it.
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I have actually never heard of anyone riding the Ten RTW succesfully at all. But I have heard and I know many who had big and many issues with their Teneres (have a look on my answer to Mollydog) On the other hand I have heard of several riders who have overlanded and ridden their Crf250s RTW with little or no issues. Amongst them a welsh woman who is now on her seventh continent on her Crf (she even rode in Antartica on it) and a dutch couple who rode each their Crf RTW. So your statement that the Crf is not a serious overlanding bike is absolutely utter nonsense. Its exactly what the Crf is, its proven and its great for that task. And this is facts, not subjective personal opinions as yours is.
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