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Test fleet: Yamaha Ténéré World Raid

Long-Term Review

It wasn’t many years ago that using a bike through February as your primary form of transport might have been seen as being, well, a little bit mental.

Nowadays I don’t think that it’s got quite the same extremist vibe. Partly because motorcylcing kit and clothing are so much more suitable to unfavourable weather conditions, but also because February is nowhere near as radical as it used to be. A decade ago, nobody would have believed that February could have several days on the trot that experienced temperatures in excess of 12°C, yet here we are with the warmest second month in the calendar since

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