'Bike' mag (UK) comments

[Bryn]

In the June 2016 ( yes its out already :) issue there is a '100 Great bikes, and how you can put one in your garage' supplement....

So I started looking through it fully expecting the Super Tenere not even to figure in it.....

Half way through there it is ... with the following comments

'In isolation it's a high-quality, very nicely made adventure bike, with a healthy but not overpowering parallel twin, and an all important low maintenance shaft drive. Ridden alongside gadget laden rivals it's the quiet one at the back of the room. But sometimes being quiet is simply a sign of good manners.'

I believe that is praise )

 

[Dogdaze]

I believe that is praise )

Or...................... it's that fat, ugly chick, but has a 'wonderful' personality ::025::

 

[Bryn]

Or...................... it's that fat, ugly chick, but has a 'wonderful' personality ::025::

More likely I think ::013::

 

[AVGeek]

My thought was damning with faint praise...

 

[sjh]

Read the same thing this afternoon.

At least they didn't bemoan the lack of "character".

btw - Bryn, Was that yourself on the A47 Saturday morning heading towards Leicester? First time I've seen another Tenere local.

 

[rider33]

'never underestimate the strong, silent type. They tend to win the race, win the girl, and win the war.

 

[Andyb43]

I recon Yamaha has pissed off he jurnos as it has never got any good press and the comparison tests the S10 is either not there or pushed to the background, political conspiracy sounds good

 

[greg the pole]

BMW has more ad power...

If it makes anyone feel better, one of my rides around western Canada will be featured in the July issue, with my tenere

 

[colorider]

I'd say it's a compliment..... Perhaps even better than the Tenere usually gets.

::022::

 

[Mikeybikey57]

Or...................... it's that fat, ugly chick, but has a 'wonderful' personality ::025::

As opposed to the rare and stunningly dressed, fashionable beauty who is always surrounded by adoring men. She's gorgeous to look at and very desirable, yet she's also very high maintenance, expensive to keep, always goes back to daddy when things go wrong, is likely to cope badly with ageing and has an overvalued sense of her own importance. O

 

[WJBertrand]

Funny, I feel the same way riding the Tenere as I do with my Honda ST. Both excellent bikes with very little to no promotion from their respective manufacturers. Judging from on the road sightings, the Tenere seems to be an even more obscure model than the Honda ST.

 

[colorider]

Funny, I feel the same way riding the Tenere as I do with my Honda ST. Both excellent bikes with very little to no promotion from their respective manufacturers. Judging from on the road sightings, the Tenere seems to be an even more obscure model than the Honda ST.

I can still remember early on in my ST1100 ownership being asked "How do you like your BMW?". That may not seem strange to some, but I got the question from a sales person at a Honda motorcycle dealership.......

 

[WJBertrand]

I can still remember early on in my ST1100 ownership being asked "How do you like your BMW?". That may not seem strange to some, but I got the question from a sales person at a Honda motorcycle dealership.......

Ha! I remember the attendant refusing to let me park in the special Honda Riders Club parking area at Laguna Seca one year on my ST1100. It didn't help that the PO had peeled all the Honda stickers off of it. Then of course there's the fellow who thought my bike was a "Give Me Monkey" because the only label/badge he could read anywhere on the bike was the name on top box...