Tour leader and head honcho at RideADV, Greg ‘TB’ Yager, has seen and done pretty much all there is to see and do in the trail-touring world. He’s been pivotal in Yamaha Motor Australia’s development of a couple of generations of Ténérés and the WR250R over many years, and he’s a bloke with an enquiring and engineering frame of mind. We’ve been chatting a bit with Greg lately and invited him to share a few thoughts and ideas. Here’s what he’s been thinking about this issue…
In my spare time, because of my business, I tend to cruise a few forums and cast my eye over social media. I mean, every ’s a school day – there’s always something to learn. But sometimes I honestly dojust shake my head and do a double take after reading something where I say to myself, “Really?”
‘It runs lean from the factory’
I love hearing how a bike is too lean straight from the factory.It was all I ever heard about WR250Rs, for instance. If you fitted a slip-on exhaust, it supposedly became even worse.