Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Yamaha’s Ténéré 700: Off-road ready, ready for an off?

An extremely excited call from MSL contributor and all-round legendary m’cycle scribbler Chris Moss started my working year. Over the Christmas period Chris had obviously been catching up on his reading and saw that I was now running the Ténéré 700, taking him approximately seven minutes into my first working day of 2023 to call me and applaud ‘my’ chosen ride.

I say ‘my’ as you may already be aware the bike came to me via Mikko, the now departed Editor of MSL, to teach me a thing or two about the Adventure discipline. Having always been a ‘sporty’, much of this sector is new to me and with Mikko changing jobs I also lost my mentor –

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