Adventure Rider Magazine’s Yamaha Ténéré 700 is taking shape.
Comfortable over long distances on the road, but still at home hitting tough off-road trails.
It’d be fair to say we’ve given the Shop Bike a fair shellacking since the last update in issue #52.
A run with RideADV in Victoria meant a lazy 1000km blast down the bitumen from northern NSW to Jindabyne at the base of The Snowies. It belted down rain pretty much the whole way, which made that section of the ride a little less than glorious.From Jindabyne it was a four-day blast through the Victorian high country, then another 1000km back up the bitumen, and it was all accomplished with ease. The Ténéré 700 is clearly a superb dualsporter. As we’ve said previously, the motor is smooth, torquey and incredibly easy to use, the ergos are probably within cooee of where they need to be for a high percentage of Aussies, and it’s very capable off-road, as we discovered on some wet, slimy tracks, a few rocky climbs, and a handful of high-speed dirt roads.