Test fleet: Yamaha Tenere 700
You'd be hard pressed to find any bad reviews of Yamaha's long-awaited Tenere 700. Those I've read are by and large very positive and usually have the obligatory shot of the rider and bike on a dirt track with a big rear wheel slide. A quick Google image search will show you hundreds of photos of the Tenere, nearly all being off-road or in the desert. It would be easy to think this is its natural setting, but I do wonder how many will actually see any serious off-road terrain, let alone a desert? To have mass appeal the Tenere has to also be a decent performer on the road.
Yamaha state on their website, 'This rally-bred long-distance adventure bike
