Yamaha enters this yr’s version of the EICMA expo with the Tenere 700 Rally Version. As its identify suggests, this makes use of the Tenere 700 as its base for the addition of particular equipment to make the middleweight journey bike that rather more suited to the rigours of off-road using.
Kitted with one eye on the nameplate’s heritage, the Tenere 700 Rally Version will get the crimson and white “speedblock” graphics which have been impressed by the livery of the unique Tenere competitors bike that was entered into the Dakar Rally within the Eighties.
Right here, the Rally Version comes kitted ex-factory with a one-piece rally-style seat that brings a 20 mm-taller seat top, now at 895 mm, a slip-on Akrapovic exhaust muffler, a 4 mm-thick aluminium engine guard plate, aluminium radiator guard, aluminium chain guard, a extra compact set of LED indicators, rubber knee grips on bodywork forward of the seat, in addition to grippier off-road handlebar grips.
The bottom Tenere 700 working gear stays untouched for this Rally Version specification, which signifies that it carries over the Ten-Seven’s 689 cc parallel-twin cylinder DOHC engine that’s rated for 72.4 hp at 9,000 rpm and 68 Nm of torque at 6,500 rpm, paired to a six-speed gearbox with chain last drive.
Equally, the comparatively primary tools fit-out of the Tenere 700 carries over, which does with out experience modes or traction management, although two-channel ABS is commonplace together with totally adjustable entrance and rear suspension, twin 282 mm disc brakes with Brembo calipers, a 21-inch entrance and 18-inch rear spoked wheel set, in addition to a 16-litre gasoline tank.
