One thing I've learned after switching to one of those 160hp super bikes with only 4 suspension dampening settings is just how incompetent I was with my Tenere ES settings. I've never pretended I knew anything about suspension, and I still don't, but I've learned I did a lot wrong with my S10-ES. I'll go as far as to say Yamaha did me no favors by trusting me to set my own suspension. I recognize I may be the only S10 rider to ever feel that way, but I am just too ignorant to have that many options.
KTM only trusts me with dampening settings of Dirt, Comfort, Street, and Sport. I can pretty much understand when to switch from one to another, but it was only earlier this month, after almost 6K miles when I realized how truly dramatic those differences were. The manual calls for working the forks after a front tire change before snugging up the last set of bolts. I grabbed the front brakes and weighted (or bounced) the handlebars. The bike barely moved at all. So little I pondered what the hell I did wrong on the tire change. I found nothing wrong. Got the bike off the table and was still perplexed. Front forks just stiff as could be. Then I moved the dampening from it's usual Sport setting to Dirt. Moments later the forks were as as light to the touch as my 690 R. Oh...!
That's when it struck me...Yamaha thought I knew stuff I clearly did not know. KTM doesn't trust me, and BMW doesn't trust their riders either. This may not be a popular thing to say here, but in the future Yamaha should dumb down their suspension settings. I trust Yamaha's engineers to do a better broad-brush estimate, that I could ever do guessing my own settings.