One engine to power them all
Parked together in a Cambridgeshire lay-by, the three Yamahas look so different that the idea that they should all use the same engine seems ridiculous. The naked MT-07 and racy, fully-faired R7… well, fair enough. But the tall, wide, long-legged Ténéré World Raid looks like a machine from another planet, not one sharing an engine whose capacity is barely half that of the latest breed of open-class adventure bikes.
Then again, Yamaha’s CP2 is no