The Tenere Owners Thread

[Cooky2159]

Looks good Customer, very nice example of how an orginal should look. Love the look of the hard cases and if you made them yourself, you're doing well.

I'll look into the rims, probably go to Ballards.

BTW, how do you find those crash bars ???

Originally Posted by The Customer

Gotta be happy with how the bike came up Cooky, colour looks good.

I thought LC8TY mentioned in a post where he sent his hubs to be made up. Otherwise Ballards could probably help out.

How many k's per tank are people getting? I did 288k's today and was dead dry, ran out 50k's from home which gave her some good laughing ammo...

Here's a pic of mine with the new aluminium panniers I knocked up for her..

[The Customer]

Yeah cheers mate. Being a sheety comes in handy occasionally...

The crash bars, I made them also although I cant see them holding up very well in an off or even just dropping the bike on them, more for the stray stick and branch that dares try to murder the $1000 buck plastics...

Have a troll through the aussie regional threads, I now remember a list of wheel builders on there too.

How many k's are you getting out of a tank of juice mate?? Have you changed your rear spring? What did you change to weight wise? I'm thinking race tech under sized my rear spring as it has a fair bit of sag when its loaded up...

Cheers

[Cooky2159]

I'm hearing you about the plastics. I had a decent off with a set of Hepco Becker crashies and that's what stuffed my plastics, henace the respray.

The best I ever got out of my tank was 330k's but that was just local easy riding and just testing it basically. The worst I got was 170 going from Broken Hill across to Yunta but I had it wrung out as much as I could. Poor girl never stood a chance with my hulking frame and luggage.

I'm about to replace the fork springs and would like to do something to the rear as I get a bit of sag too but o idea what to do there yet. I'm only relatively new to the scene and trying to learn as much as I canquickly.

Doing the Tenere Tragics ride in March so want to get a few things done.

Originally Posted by The Customer

Yeah cheers mate. Being a sheety comes in handy occasionally...

The crash bars, I made them also although I cant see them holding up very well in an off or even just dropping the bike on them, more for the stray stick and branch that dares try to murder the $1000 buck plastics...

Have a troll through the aussie regional threads, I now remember a list of wheel builders on there too.

How many k's are you getting out of a tank of juice mate?? Have you changed your rear spring? What did you change to weight wise? I'm thinking race tech under sized my rear spring as it has a fair bit of sag when its loaded up...

Cheers

[hellbent181]

Jan, After viewing your photobucket I can say with certainty that this is one of the nicest set-up 10's I have seen. I am impressed with the "stone guard" idea and dual 12V outlets (I have installed only one in exactly the same place). A job well done!

Originally Posted by HappyJan

My Tenere XT660Z http://photobucket.com/TenereTravelers

You can see all my mods here: http://s1086.photobucket.com/albums/...modifications/

Cheers

HappyJan (aka TenereTravelers).

[un_swe]

This is what came out after a crash with my old tenere, before and after pics. This will serve as my winter bike.


Will add some protection for the fork legs in the near future.

[daviken]

hello .... just sold my KTM 640 Adventure and I will buy my brother having 3AJ will soon .... photos.
Where have you bought the defenses of the deposit?
thanks and sorry for my English, I use a translator

[damo2010]

Originally Posted by daviken

hello .... just sold my KTM 640 Adventure and I will buy my brother having 3AJ will soon .... photos.
Where have you bought the defenses of the deposit?
thanks and sorry for my English, I use a translator

Welcome to the thread Daviken
hope you get lots of useful tips from this thread as i have
Will be good to see some pics of the 3AJ
Damo

[damo2010]

Hi Customer

I notice that your rack is attached direct to the rear luggage rack.
I did the same with my ventura rack but ended up braking the original rear luggage rack due to over loading.
I had a 10L fuel can inside the ventura bag, so just don't load up the rear rack with heavy stuff

Originally Posted by The Customer

Gotta be happy with how the bike came up Cooky, colour looks good.

I thought LC8TY mentioned in a post where he sent his hubs to be made up. Otherwise Ballards could probably help out.

How many k's per tank are people getting? I did 288k's today and was dead dry, ran out 50k's from home which gave her some good laughing ammo...

Here's a pic of mine with the new aluminium panniers I knocked up for her..

[daviken]

Originally Posted by damo2010

Welcome to the thread Daviken
hope you get lots of useful tips from this thread as i have
Will be good to see some pics of the 3AJ
Damo

this is my bike




, but I'm going to paint like this



I have already bought the stickers here
http://www.ebay.es/itm/280464584100?... ht_1394wt_700

and seat cover, here

http://www.ebay.es/itm/Yamaha-XT600-...#ht_2311wt_754

the truth is that I have much work to do ..... I think the regulator is bad, the carburetor inlet jacks, rolling direction, transmission kit, fuel tank repair and paint the whole bike. going to cost me more than the repair, which cost me the bike

[daviken]

Anyone to buy this?
mine is that this yellow ...
http://www.ebay.es/itm/MRA-Touren-Sc...#ht_2099wt_952

[damo2010]

Originally Posted by daviken

this is my bike

, but I'm going to paint like this


the truth is that I have much work to do ..... I think the regulator is bad, the carburetor inlet jacks, rolling direction, transmission kit, fuel tank repair and paint the whole bike. going to cost me more than the repair, which cost me the bike

Yes, I like that colour scheme, looks much cleaner than the blue 99 model Teneres

You talk about the rolling direction, do you mean it does not roll straight. Sounds like the frame is bent? Sounds a bit major.
Whats wrong with the gear box? Whats the transmission kit all about?

Heres mine on a 4 day navigation rally in its elements.

[Cooky2159]

OK Tenere pilots,

The question that I have for you all today is this

What size sprockets are you all running.

I am about to replace the sprockets on my 1996 Tenny and am tossing up whether to replace the existing 45 on the rear with another 45 or go down to a 43 due to the fact that I do more open road riding. I'm going to keep the 15 on the front and just keep a spare 14 just in case the riding calls for it.

Just like to know what you're all using.

Cheers

Cooky

[x86]

Originally Posted by Cooky2159

OK Tenere pilots,

The question that I have for you all today is this

What size sprockets are you all running.

I am about to replace the sprockets on my 1996 Tenny and am tossing up whether to replace the existing 45 on the rear with another 45 or go down to a 43 due to the fact that I do more open road riding. I'm going to keep the 15 on the front and just keep a spare 14 just in case the riding calls for it.

Just like to know what you're all using.

Cheers

Cooky

15-43 should be very good for road riding. I had 15-40 and in 5-th gear it hadn't power to accelerate above 125km/h, so I guess 15-43 should be the best ratio for touring.
I am thinking to put on mine a 47 sprocket because I'm going at least 50-50% road-offroad and it would be nice to limit a bit the speed on the 2nd gear.

[Cooky2159]

Thanks mate.

That's pretty much what I figured so thanks for the reply.

Originally Posted by x86

15-43 should be very good for road riding. I had 15-40 and in 5-th gear it hadn't power to accelerate above 125km/h, so I guess 15-43 should be the best ratio for touring.
I am thinking to put on mine a 47 sprocket because I'm going at least 50-50% road-offroad and it would be nice to limit a bit the speed on the 2nd gear.

[damo2010]

Originally Posted by x86

15-43 should be very good for road riding. I had 15-40 and in 5-th gear it hadn't power to accelerate above 125km/h, so I guess 15-43 should be the best ratio for touring.
I am thinking to put on mine a 47 sprocket because I'm going at least 50-50% road-offroad and it would be nice to limit a bit the speed on the 2nd gear.

Hi x86,

I'd be interested to see how you go with a 47 rear. I did the maths and at low speeds, there was not much difference but at high speed it did make a difference. e.g. for same rev at idle, the gearing might save 1km/h, but at full speed say 100km/h, speed for same rev might drop by 5km/h. In other words you loss a lot of top end speed with little change to low speed. Really the gear box gearing needs to be changed, but of course I'm dreaming here.

However, I might be wrong, let me know if you do find it helps