Really? with Greg Yager

Adventure Rider Issue #52

• Checkout
• Fit Out
• Held Mojave Jacket
• Led Me Astray with Andy Strapz
• Shop Around with Karen Ramsay
• Really? with Greg Yager
• Shop Bike 02
• Alice Springs And Back
• Rocky Mountain High Ride
• Age Shall Not Weary Them
• Death Or Glory
• Maidenwell
• Nowra Three-day
• Geoff Ballard’s BMW R1200GSA
• Journey To The Top
• Husqvarna 901 Norden
• Bucket Haul
• It’s what we do

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.