how is this bike for longer trips?
 

I mean vibration and loudness at cruising speed?
I'm preparing for something like that soon and having a little bit concerns
about xt660z being single cylinder.

Mate I love my xtz I have a airhawk seat pad and can ride all day no worries. Its not going to compare to a bigger multi cylinder bike on long road trips. But it is the best on road/ off road bike being equally good at both. Most bikes r better or more suited to one but not my tenere it's a great bike for both.


Time spent without rod in hand is time forever wasted.

thanks! that's reassuring :) I am almost ready to place an order how about engine noise, bearable ?

Yea it's fine mate I have stock exhaust so not to loud. Vibration is fine at cruzing speed the bikes gearing is really tailored for cruzing speed so it helps. If u do more off road stuff, changing the rear sprocket bye 1 gives it a bit better off road gearing from what I've heard.


Time spent without rod in hand is time forever wasted.

1320 km in 13hrs only stopping for fuel ......seats ****e :sad2: but what seat would be ok ????

great bit of kit and its good for 60mpg ......ish

What exactly is your concern about the engine noise? Overall it is not really loud. It sounds like a single zylinder has to sound:).

you know, I'll be riding at night from time to time so I don't want to wake up wild animals in the bushes :viking:

With the standard exhaust you wont even wake yourself up!!!!!!!!!

I've not done any long tours on mine. Longest was an evening ride about 400km of highway home from work with less than 10minutes breaks for refueling and "unloading" some water. Most was done at 110km/h

When i ride for fun the speed is lower and i'm not just sitting there for 4 hours ... There are vibrations but not so much that it is a problem for my hands, but the seat on my pony basically forces me in one position. Still considering the expensive option of having it reholstered with a higher and more level top enstead of the rider/passenger edge. Unfortunately the Kahedo seats are pretty expensive but if i was about to go for a loooong ride i would seriously consider it, before spending money on better suspension etc But 460€ can buy you a lot of sheepskins :-) http://shop.kahedo.com/Seats-Driver/...%7B6%7D31.html

Last year i did Ullapool to home in one go...641 miles in 12 hours with 3 fue and lool stops.

As long as you have a good lid the engine noise is not any issue...ever.

When i got my Tenere i had real problems with vibrations through the bars. This sorted itself out after the bike was run in...aroudn 5000 miles.

It is so smooth now that i get more vibraitons through my BMW K100LT..and that is a very smooth bike.

A few weeks ago i did a fast 390 miles getting to a ferry in spain. It took 6.5 hours door to door and i arrived tired but no worse than any other bike.

The seat of course is not great...i had a tough time with the OEM seat so bought a Touratech �400 seat..yes i know �400..while much better it eas a bit hard. I gave it 8000 miles and it did not give so i sent my OEM seat away to be reshaped and repadded.

Now it's sorted. I can ride for 3 hours none stop.

Finally make sure you sort out the screen..for me the OEM not tall enough so i bought a taller one but for some the short one is better.

Everytime i think about selling my Tenere i go for a ride and then decide i can't sell it.

Mike

Mike, could you post some pics of your seat job, cheers. :thumbup:

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I can confirm that:).

kahedo site says 340euro??

nippped to marroc and back twice on her .....great bike

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...9/img1935d.jpg

hey, great pic! was it your all luggage there, that on the fuel tank?
and in the back, that tube? cruise missile? ;)

Can't match some of those efforts! Best I've done was a couple of 640km days, one when a rock cut my rear tyre and tube and I found out how much I love zip ties, my centrestand and hate security rims. I then had to ride into the night for 200km or so (never fun with the terrible standard lighting) and <3degC (never fun for me! Though no probs for tough Euro people).

Nothing really seems to bother my Tenere. Mid 40deg to slightly sub zero, rough or smooth (especially with upgraded suspension), corners, straights and so on, it does everything I need it to without being outstanding at anything except

1. being versatile
2. being able to heat your lower legs to flash point during hot, summer rides

Like Mike101, every time I think about selling it, I go for a ride and realise there's nothing I can think of to replace it. I initially bought it instead of a 1200GS, and I still (with great respect) don't want or need a 690 or an 800, 990, 1190 or 1200.

So I hope the Tenere keeps going for a long time yet.

That is a truly excellent pic, minkyhead!

spain
 

took mines from glasgow to spain ...no problems slightly sore bottom

Well I think that it all comes down to MONEY at the end of the day. I explain. When we start biking we buy er 1 motorbike and it must be all things to all men. So my first road bike was a Suzuki GT185 2 stroke and I thought that it was soooooo fast hehe. Then I started to earn some dosh so I went to an RD400 (mmmmmmm) and then a CB750 and started to discover a love of touring and France and the Bol D'Or and things.
Now I am older so I have 7 bikes so one or two for every need.
My beloved XT660X is a wonderful jack of all trades and if I had only one bike I think that I would choose her.

I've written a 7000 word ride report about our trip to the Pyrenees (two up) at the beginning on June. Report is now being edited by my wife and then I'll be adding many many pics with hundreds more to see on photobucket. Keep an eye out, within the week I'll have it published!