Yamaha XTZ750 Super Tenere

[neutral 3]

Any on here ?

[jjones]

The first motorbike I fell in love with as a kid.

[Dog Star]

I used to have one, H385 YGU, black with pink! and purple. About 1993-1995 or so.
I remember the gearbox being a bit st, and it having quite crappy fuel consumption.

Traded it in for a rather mint blue ZX-10.







ETA - looking at the MOT history it was in use as late as 2011 with 31K on the clock.

Edited by Dog Star on Thursday 15th March 08:32

[neutral 3]

Dogstar, that looked a nice bike! Suprised re the gear box and fuel consumption though.

[Tiggsy]

First bike I bought after passing at 17...went from a DT125 to that. Bored me silly so I swapped it for a ZZR600.

Recently rode a new 1200 in Africa and, to be fair, in the right place - very capable! (not Reading in mid 90's!)

[Dog Star]

neutral 3 said:

Dogstar, that looked a nice bike! Suprised re the gear box and fuel consumption though.

They had a notoriously clunky gearbox.

[neutral 3]

Suprised re clunky gear box. I specialise in these and have had a lot of them through my hands over the years and have had no gear box issues. The gear lever pivot and the two ball joints can seize ( due to lack of maintanance and greasing ) and this can cause the gear change to get sloppy, but thats it. Recently sold a very high miles one and the box was fine.