BBB #9: Yamaha Ténéré 700 Tail Tidy Creation 

Bruce Stott Thanks for the great feedback for being a Tobinator customer!

Good idea - I might do that further back actually as the holder is in 2 pieces.

zeitgeist5050 Yep - I don’t need all the other Rally bits and am keeping costs down. Plus the Yamaha tail tidy still sticks out too far IMHO

Thanks - I'll take a look at that. Seems there are a lot of accessories coming to market now the manufacturers have got their hands on the bikes.

Heading off road tomorrow so will see what happens. I suspect you are right so it’s likely I will move/tilt the plate further back to compensate a bit.

Yep I did mention that in the video. There's some flex so I think it will be fine.

WE ARE ONE BRAIN Dunno yet, will go find some mud and report back :-). I need to pop the reflector on there too.

That is well observed!

Hi Eric. Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I still have the T7. Fantastic bike. I’m typing this from a ferry that’s about to leave from Santander back to the UK after a 10 day tour with the other Bearded Bald Bikers. Bloody excellent. The T7 doesn’t half shift when you want it to, and is a blast on the twisty roads over here. Hope you have bought one by now.

scolarichris There is some sort of Yamaha mount available. Looks pretty substantial. Check their accessories pages (maybe use the UK Yamaha website)

I have not, and it would, so I have since changed the angle of the plate to give much more clearance.

No, the stock battery is a standard brick. Definitely some weight loss possible from a lithium one.

@@beardedbaldbikers4634 weight can go from 3.2 to 0.8 kgs (-2.4 kg)

Length tyre end to tyre end 230cm Height to top of screen 147cm Width bar end to bar end 91cm

@@beardedbaldbikers4634 Many thanks Andrew ! Cheers from a fellow adventure rider in the U.S.

Could be worse.. the new ktms have oil issues. Amongst other things

@@gelul12 Agree. That's what frustrates me, that two giants spend (together) almost 10 years of development of a true adventure bike - that amongst other things should be reliable and carry pillion and luggage, and the result is that you have to choose between oil leaks; non-functioning rear break light (WTF?! Is it such a technological challenge?!); bubbles in the gauge cluster; the look of chaos; and more... and between the seat and (no) luggage rack of a WR250; no reasonable pillion handles; ugly rims (where have all the silver rims gone?); bad plastics (that scratch from easy fall); and metal tank (that bends)

@@sys-administrator The purpose of such a bike is to be truly versatile. That means it should be good also for commuting to work through traffic (with a top case) and also for trips with a pillion. If someone wants and can have one bike for on-road commuting, one bike for trips with a pillion, and one bike for solo trips, then you are right - but there are many people of the first type that this bike is aimed at. Now let's ask ourselves what's the disadvantage of having reasonable handles for a pillion and reasonable top rack - you don't have to put the top case itself all the time. The price in weight is negligible - less 2 kg at most if planned correctly. The price in money shouldn't be that bad either and I (and others) would prefer paying for these things rather for fancy LED headlights (if we have to choose). You can see all other adventure bikes - including the much-more-offroad-capable 790 R, have much better seats, pillion handles, and rack, arriving as standard, so seems like it's a matter of "making it look cool" (at least to some people's taste) rather than a functional reason.

@@sys-administrator You will find top luggage rack + pillion handles in the official Yamaha accessories offered for this bike, the analogy to the Panigale is not right. You also ignore the simple fact that the much-more-focused 790R has all these things as standard - just like any other non-pure (offroad or sports) bike I can think of. There's a difference between what YOU want to do with this bike and what Yamaha aim it at - and like I wrote in the first sentence obviously Yamaha aim it at more than solo and pure adventure.