testride new Tenere
Today I did a testride with the new Tenere and I must say I was impressed! It runs smooth, good handling in corners, bad roads and roadbumps. Shifting goes smoothly, injection-mapping is o.k., seating-position is comfortable(only one minor complaint: it's fixed position, one can't move backwards, due to the height difference of the passenger place). The springs front and back are up to onroad riding conditions(I didn't ride offroad, but it probably will do alright too!). Tank(22lt) is good for 460km. At high speed there's a little turbelence round my helmet, due to the high windscreen and my height(1.93m), not disturbing. All in all: a very good bike, more allround, compared to my XT600E. I even started negotiatons with my Yamaha-dealer to trade my two XT's for the new Tenere(white/red)! Greetz,Hans.
P.s.: one little thing: they fitted a plug in the dash to connect a GPS, which was not in the pre-production models. Here in Holland Yamaha Netherlands sold the whole 2008 stock to the dealers, so if the dealers sold them all, you'll have to wait 'till next year.
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