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Old 11 Dec 2006
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Motoafrika TT600 problems

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Just whatched the motoafrika movie, its Great! I was espicaly pleased to see that they were riding TT600R's (as I have basicaly finnaly decided on TT600RE) However they seemed to be having quite a few problems with the bikes, (I know the RE is different to the R but compaired to a XR650R/L...) Is this a reason to go for a Honda..."Honda reliabity" (Am I about to get stonned for saying that on the Yamaha forum!!) So I appreciate that any bike can have problems but, how reliable are TT600RE or TT as a range.
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Talking Easy tiger!

With the proper care, and mechanical sympathy, an xt or tt will give you a life time of fun and reliability. It is impportant to remember a bike is like a woman, only as reliable as they are looked after! Abuse it and it will come back to bite you!, and that goes for any bike.

XT,TT are not 2 stroke mx bikes and shouldnt be ridden as such, this will limit the dependability of your machine.

Over the years XT's and TT's have proven themselves time and again in terms of being tough, reliable and hard working.

Own 1 and you'll never look back!!

Enjoy!
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I understand that you are talking about the repairs in the MotoAfrika movie, so I have my TT for 55 000 km (baught it new) and had never any problem with it. My friends TT had a few problem on our way but there is an explanation : the first one was a broken siemring - this is because his bike when he baught had only ~2000km but was staying in smb garage for few years without starting - this is not good for rubber parts; The second one - broken kickstarter-stopper - no idea, but the TT is easy to fix; the third thing was our fault - when changing the oil in egypt we did not screw well the plug to drain the oil so it fell off when riding!! the whole oil whent out of the engine so it damaged the engine - but what is amazing that without any repair the bike was able to make another 16 000km through the whole africa to cape
so why tt: simple engine easy to fix, greate for offroad; but ... what can I tell you I find this bike really sexy thats why I love it
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Hi!

I fully agree, take care of your XT/TT and it will take care of you
I have 100.000km on my 86 Teneré now(it had 40.000km on it when I bought it), and despite everyone telling me that it´s the weakest of the XT models I haven´t had a ny major problems with it.I gave it new Crankchaft bearings and a piston 10.000km ago,and replaced 5th gear (a little pitched but still working) at the same time. but other than that it has been just normal maintnence.Oil changes and filters.

It´s not the worlds greatest bike, but it sure does the job good enough
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