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New Tenere 900

The new Tenere 900 looks smashing! Better engine than KTM 890 and only 168 kilos dry weight...
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Whats the date?

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The new Tenere 900 looks smashing! Better engine than KTM 890 and only 168 kilos dry weight...
Whats the date?
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I'll buy one

Yeah, remind me, what is the date?
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Well I did try, but you guys were too clever....
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If you’d have posted a T300 you might have caught me
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But ... what about the Norden 901?
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Its a nice idea

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Well I did try, but you guys were too clever....
Don't know about clever, its a nice idea though..I am sure Yamaha engineers have thought about it...
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They must have used a lot of titanium and quite a lot of the even more expensive fantasium to get the weight THAT low!
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They must have used a lot of titanium and quite a lot of the even more expensive fantasium to get the weight THAT low!
Helium in the tyres!
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Helium in the tyres!
When Kwik Fit try to sell me nitrogen fills for the tyres it amuses me to reply that I will go with an 80% nitrogen mix if that is OK. For the cars that I drive I don't think that the 20% nitrogen that I don't get in an air fill will make a significant difference to the performance - running the tyres at the right pressure is liekly to have a far, far greater effect.
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