NEW Yamaha Tenere!

[Robster]

If the plastics are anywhere near as cheap as those on the Yam XTX660 then you'd be laughing. My mate bought a side fairing for his for £5 from Yamaha!! YES, £5!

He reckons he can get a complete set of fairing for £40! Madness! But good madness!

[Wee Jack]

22 litre tank on a FI 660. If it's set up properly and ridden sensibly I reckon at least ........... 65 MPG ...... so a theoretical tank range of 314 miles ......... or about 270 -280miles to fuel light. Mega tourer !!!!

Factor it down a bit for loaded with luggage .... still pretty damned good.


Come on Honda FFS! your losing customers hand over fist here !!!! first McVicar lost to Kawasaki, then Sean away to Triumph, and Wee Jack seduced by the long legged Austrian ............who next I wonder ????? even the site owner has been lost from the fold !!

WAKE UP CALL HONDA !!!!

[Rubberchicken]

Must be some sort of record too - essentially the same engine used in 6 distinct models (4 from Yamaha and 2 or 3 from Aprilia). Apart from Harley of course who have used the same engine since the bronze age

It's not stopping there either, Derbi use the same lump if I'm not mistaken, and I think there are a few others I can't think of right now.

[Wee Jack]

It's not stopping there either, Derbi use the same lump if I'm not mistaken, and I think there are a few others I can't think of right now.

CCM I think ?

and somebody is building Goldstar replicas I'm sure ??

[Rubberchicken]

MZ too I guess...
At least they used to use the old yam 660 engine, guess they're keeping up to date as well.

[Maverick]

I like it....I like it ALOT

If I tire of the HP2 this would certainly feature in my garage...IF

[Jenna]

peperoni please!



mt-03 has been licenced to so many companies, but they all seam to be upgrading (ignition, efi, cranks and soooo much more), getting more power out and better reliability (like MZ, Aprilia etc etc) yamaha are way behind though with the stock lump, and from all the reports the new bike has not got a newer spec.. pitty.

[Wee Jack]

peperoni please!

Cruel, harsh and cutting !! in a way only a woman can

But I still like it !! but then again I like KTMs !!! so cue the cruel harsh and cutting counter !!

[Steve C]

Oh bugger, and I finally convinced myself my TA is fine, I don't need a new bike. Managed to discount all the other bikes I fancy:

Buell toooo road and unproven,
Vara toooo big,
BMW toooo much,
Tiger tooo road,
KTM could be expensive to service and fix,
Yamaha XT660R to smaller fuel tank.........

Then those £$*^*%$ at Yamaha go and release this.......where's me cheque book!

Africa Twin Russ, AFRICA TWIN... proven, a lot like your TA but a little more attitude, fits your frame, HUGE fun... A-F-R-I-C-A T-W-I-N!

[Wee Jack]

Africa Twin Russ, AFRICA TWIN... proven, a lot like your TA but a little more attitude, fits your frame, HUGE fun... A-F-R-I-C-A T-W-I-N!

YEAH !! and soon you'll be able to put them all on a classic insurance.

What we need is a NEW!!! AFRICA TWIN - same attitude - same emotional draw.................. but deep down you just know Honda corporate tossers will spoil it , probably even drop the AT name in favour of some bland meaningless pish ..............