I am talking about the YES warranty. Number 5 on the customer's responsibility page. It says to follow the owner's manual guidelines concerning storage, page 8-3. How they can prove you did or didn't is beyond me, unless you left it outside in the snow; I imagine that would be obvious. I did an operator-equipment mismatch and glossed over it, it is the battery needs the climate controlled space, not the entire bike. I certainly wouldn't be covering the exhaust outlet with a plastic bag as they state. Can't see much value in the oil down the spark plug hole for a plated ceramic composite cylinder finish, either. Whatever.
That said, rather than trip over it all winter, and since my dealer offers climate controlled storage, I took them up on it: storage plus documented service. In the foreseeable future, I intend to build a climate controlled pole barn/workshop in the back, and everything will move out there. I'll probably do the other service intervals myself. I'd rather do things like valve adjustments and TB syncs myself, I'm very particular, and I know who to blame if they screw it up. I don't care who does oil changes, and tire changes will most certainly be them. I do the tube type tires on the WRR, but don't bother with the tubeless ones, no bead breaker, and no plans to get one.
By the way: it is amazing how large a footprint the Tenere requires. With it out of the garage, there is a lot of room now. Keep in kind I have a fairly small garage, with a seldom used F150 hogging one whole side.
