What you did to your Tenere today??!!

One4Liberty

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Test rides completed with a few different settings, including naked.
Definitely better, but I may try different combinations on the positioning with the Madstad bracket.
Naked was great up to about 65-70 mph. Neck strain stared above that.
I’m 6’4” and riding with a Schuberth C3 helmet on this test.

Also bought some synthetic 75-90 gear oil for the final drive.
 

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One4Liberty

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Looks great.

I agree on neck strain above 75mph with the naked configuration. I keep it under 75 anyway most of the time to keep from getting tickets.
I would prefer to run under 75, but in the section of I-95 near me I'd get run over. Three lanes of craziness in each direction. I'm not a fan of the big slab rides anyway.

I'll keep playing with the screen a bit, and may take another inch or two off later. I got the buffeting hitting around my neck area now, but it's not like a rivet gun on my helmet anymore.
 

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Installed Anthony's ECU flash, Nav/windshield anti vibration brackets purchased form ETSY from Canada. Now I just have to wait to get fully recovered from knee surgery 3 weeks ago.... Miss riding my S10 and I can't wait find out what's it's like with the flash...


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After getting rid of my flashed '12, decided it was time to give the '18 the same treatment. Being local (and still having their discount), 2 Wheel DynoWorks got the nod this time. Great service, in and out very quickly and T mode is now useful!

~G
 

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Tell us about them when you get some mi/kms on them.
GPRogers will I’m sure update us in a week or two.

Personally, I’ve ridden on these for about 15-18k miles. To ride on, I can’t fault them, they’re grippy, steer nicely and quicker than the base Tourance tyres. They just get on with their job, which they do very well. I don’t go off road, but I doubt very much that they’d be any good other than perhaps packed gravel type stuff. Wear rate - I reckon about 6k max for my riding style. The bulk of my mileage is usually on tour, where we are pushing on, often in the hills and mountains. Riding more sedately, I’d guess 8k a pair is doable.

I have tried Tourance Next front and base Tourance rear at the same time, which really I found to be a great, and probably my favourite set up so far*. I’ve never had any issues whatsoever on the base Tourance tyres and I’ve used them a lot in the last 15-17 years. I guess I just like the added confidence of the extra grip that the Next have, when I know I’m in for a week of mountain passes.

There was a tyre thread on here a while back, and I’m pretty sure that it was Eric that wrote something along the lines of, most modern tyres will out perform the rider. I agree with this, and the base Tourance are very very very likely to sufffice all of the time, however, that head confidence thing is also important, and part of the whole riding thing.

*Tourance EXP were in my opinion the best tyres on this bike, sadly they don’t make them anymore. For now though, Tourance Next work well for me, I’ll stick with them.
 

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bike back from 25000 miles service, did oil/filter and plugs checked the throttle boddies were in sync they were spot on also checked new APE tensioner was ok that was fitted 1600 miles ok same spot on. getting the valves done next year when its done just around 30000.
 

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One4Liberty

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Test rides completed with a few different settings, including naked.
Definitely better, but I may try different combinations on the positioning with the Madstad bracket.
Naked was great up to about 65-70 mph. Neck strain stared above that.
I’m 6’4” and riding with a Schuberth C3 helmet on this test.

Also bought some synthetic 75-90 gear oil for the final drive.
Drilled in new holes to be able to lower the windscreen even more. I like the looks of it tucked in to the headlights. Still more noise than naked.

The screen is small enough than I can quickly take it off and put in my trunk box to ride without it.

Now it’s time to put that synthetic gear oil in.

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gprogers

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GPRogers will I’m sure update us in a week or two.

Personally, I’ve ridden on these for about 15-18k miles. To ride on, I can’t fault them, they’re grippy, steer nicely and quicker than the base Tourance tyres. They just get on with their job, which they do very well. I don’t go off road, but I doubt very much that they’d be any good other than perhaps packed gravel type stuff. Wear rate - I reckon about 6k max for my riding style. The bulk of my mileage is usually on tour, where we are pushing on, often in the hills and mountains. Riding more sedately, I’d guess 8k a pair is doable.

I have tried Tourance Next front and base Tourance rear at the same time, which really I found to be a great, and probably my favourite set up so far*. I’ve never had any issues whatsoever on the base Tourance tyres and I’ve used them a lot in the last 15-17 years. I guess I just like the added confidence of the extra grip that the Next have, when I know I’m in for a week of mountain passes.

There was a tyre thread on here a while back, and I’m pretty sure that it was Eric that wrote something along the lines of, most modern tyres will out perform the rider. I agree with this, and the base Tourance are very very very likely to sufffice all of the time, however, that head confidence thing is also important, and part of the whole riding thing.

*Tourance EXP were in my opinion the best tyres on this bike, sadly they don’t make them anymore. For now though, Tourance Next work well for me, I’ll stick with them.
Great write up, I had the Next on my 650 Strom and like them
 

blågrisen

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GPRogers will I’m sure update us in a week or two.

Personally, I’ve ridden on these for about 15-18k miles. To ride on, I can’t fault them, they’re grippy, steer nicely and quicker than the base Tourance tyres. They just get on with their job, which they do very well. I don’t go off road, but I doubt very much that they’d be any good other than perhaps packed gravel type stuff. Wear rate - I reckon about 6k max for my riding style. The bulk of my mileage is usually on tour, where we are pushing on, often in the hills and mountains. Riding more sedately, I’d guess 8k a pair is doable.

I have tried Tourance Next front and base Tourance rear at the same time, which really I found to be a great, and probably my favourite set up so far*. I’ve never had any issues whatsoever on the base Tourance tyres and I’ve used them a lot in the last 15-17 years. I guess I just like the added confidence of the extra grip that the Next have, when I know I’m in for a week of mountain passes.

There was a tyre thread on here a while back, and I’m pretty sure that it was Eric that wrote something along the lines of, most modern tyres will out perform the rider. I agree with this, and the base Tourance are very very very likely to sufffice all of the time, however, that head confidence thing is also important, and part of the whole riding thing.

*Tourance EXP were in my opinion the best tyres on this bike, sadly they don’t make them anymore. For now though, Tourance Next work well for me, I’ll stick with them.
I'm on my third set of Tourance Next and like them a lot. Just stay away from wet gravel, mud and sand (like any 90/10 style)
I do tend to change early due to rainy weather here in Sweden to retain fair traction but still get 16000 - 18000 km (10000 - 11500 mi) out of a set.
Would like to test something new at times but keep coming back to Next as I know their limits.
Just my 2c. :cool:
 

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Drilled in new holes to be able to lower the windscreen even more. I like the looks of it tucked in to the headlights.
I wonder if you might be restricting ventilation to the display unit. Given the bugs that regularly flow through there I suspect they designed the air flow for some reason. I run the tall OEM shield and find it amazing the number of bug splatters on the inside.
 

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A little clutch maintenance and another upgrade ! Here is the wear side of the Barnett pressure plate. This plate has about 30K+ miles on it and looks BRAND NEW. It looks like Ive taken out of the box five minutes ago. Ive just recently gotten the (off the road / Germany) clutch slave cylinder. Ive known about this slave cylinder for years, but never had the opportunity to actually try one. Recently tried on another Tenere, and was impressed enough to buy my own. Works really well.
As always, when im in the clutch I replace the wear parts.
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