YAMAHA Ténéré 700
IMAGINE THIS-Sir David Attenborough is involved in the development of Yamaha’s Ténéré 700 is during the very last marketing meetings leading up to the final release. He says, “I say lads, if this motorcycle were in the animal kingdom it would have been through a world record gestation period. The record stands at 640 days for an elephant…”. It was just over 700 days since I’d first set eyes on the then T7 prototype - and what a lot of hype it drew - at EICMA in Italy in 2017. But just as elephants are pretty impressive, one decent day in the saddle will be enough for adventuring hero types to be impressed enough to fork over their cash without flinching.
It will come as no surprise that capacity-wise, the 689cc is based on the
