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xtz 750 super tenere
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Does anyone have any experience with these bikes? From early 90`s?
Id like a bit more power than the xt600, but I dont know much about the 750..
Is it a good, reliable bike?
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12 Aug 2008
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Hei Osmund.
Did you do a search? Anyway, I asked a somewhat similar question some years ago, and got some good answers that may be useful to you as well. Here you go.
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Takk for svar.
Jeg søkte ja, men enten fikk jeg null treff, eller så kom hele forumet... ikke sikkert jeg søker riktig...
Men det var en god tråd. Ble litt i tvil om den xtz`n...
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Super Ten
And if nobody minds me promoting another site, then xtz750.com is a thriving little forum.
Incidentally my XTZ750 which took me down to Cape Town in 1995 then out to the Middle East for 5 years now has a TDM850 engine and WR450F forks after a nut and bolt rebuild. The TDM engine is the 4TX which has the 270 degree crank so the bike pulls, feels and sounds fabulous.
Heres a snap or 2 - I can confidently say, this is now the worlds greatest living motorcyle
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S**k me slowly what a bike! Wow, that was REALLY nice! I like the mods. Best of both worlds, no?
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Thanks
Thanks Indu, I'm very very happy with it, new life has been breathed into an old friend that was dying on its arse.
The company who did the work for me are called raidxtreme based just north of London and they did a brilliant job, on time and on budget. If that website is still down try this one which is their xtz850 site
Everything has been right straight from the off, no oil leaks or carburation funnies, it's all been good. They are specialists in xtz750/xtz850s and will happily help people out at a good price
(I'm just a happy punter, nothing to do with the company or building brilliant bikes - I can't change a spark plug!)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dick
And if nobody minds me promoting another site, then xtz750.com is a thriving little forum.
Incidentally my XTZ750 which took me down to Cape Town in 1995 then out to the Middle East for 5 years now has a TDM850 engine and WR450F forks after a nut and bolt rebuild. The TDM engine is the 4TX which has the 270 degree crank so the bike pulls, feels and sounds fabulous.
Heres a snap or 2 - I can confidently say, this is now the worlds greatest living motorcyle

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That bike is friggen awesome!
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Just consider yourselves lucky to even have those choices.
Apparently here (in the US) the market is overwhelmingly focused on huge shiny cruisers and huge displacement sportbikes. People like us in the US have to just content ourselves with BMWs, Kawasaki KLRs, and the short importation big trailies (Transalps 89-90, XT600s if you can find them, and the 2 or 3 XTZs that actually made it to the states).
-Rant Over-
Your awesome motorcycles over there are 50% of the reason I'd move to another coutry.
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