Yamaha Ténéré 700: First Aussie Ride!

Adventure Rider Issue #38

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Food For Thought with Karen Ramsay
• Best Job In The World
• Fathers Day = australian adventure motorbike magazine
• Royal Enfield Himalayan – adventure motorbike magazine – australia
• Under African Skies – australian adventure motorbike magazine
• Tubeless Bliss with Miles Davis
• KLRRR
• Blue Banger Run = adventure motorbike riding
• Window Shopping
• Scott Britnell
• Ural Adventure Ride = australian adventure motorbike magazine
• Kimberley Dreaming
• Ducati Multistrada Enduro 1260
• Congregations (NSW and WA)
• Yamaha Ténéré 700: First Aussie Ride!
• Retyrement with Andy Strapz
• Bali Tour 2019 – Perth Adventure Riders
• Dakar 2019: The Wish
• It’s what we do – adventure motorbike riding tours magazine news events

Yamaha’s newest Ténéré has finally landed in Australia. Adventure Rider Magazine was lucky enough to enjoy a quick ride to answer some of the questions the entire adventure-riding community has been asking.

Yamaha’s latest configuration of its Ténéré range is built around a proven 689cc, liquid-cooled, parallel-twin CP2 motor. The powerplant’s claimed to offer ‘strong and linear torque output that gives instant throttle response together with outstanding acceleration’. A range of model-specific fuel-injection settings set the motor up to do its best in a dualsport application, and it sits in an all-new, light-weight, double-cradle, tubular-steel frame.

Forks are 43mm upside-downers with 210mm of travel and both rebound and compression adjustment, and movement of the aluminium swingarm is controlled by a shock with an external preload adjuster. Wheels are a 21-inch front and an 18-inch rear fitted with Pirelli Scorpion Rally STRs.