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Old 17-08-12, 10:39
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Originally Posted by Artivati View Post
Very true...
A shame the Tenere doesn't have the very useful underseat storage area of the 660R.
C'mon Yamaha, high time something is done about that!
There is,,,, once you dispense with the can!

I think everyone knows the OE toolkit is useless, in fact the only useful tool is the C-Spanner.

I too have a Kriega tool roll, although it's very very bulky, I have developed a bespoke toolkit just for the Tenere. Lots of modified tools to do specific jobs (even a ground down drift to extract the brake pad pins). It took time but this is how I did it:

Everytime I did any work on the bike, I wrote down what I used and kept a list for a while. Then I put together a toolkit, thought about what I had and what I could modify to do more than one job. Once I had a toolkit I used ONLY that toolkit, if I needed anything else I added it to the toolkit. As a final cover all,,, RAC Card!

I can't fix a broken chain, but I look at a chain break as being something a little more destructive as a simple break,
I can't rebuild the engine/gearbox,
But that's about all

You need surprising little to take the Tenere apart
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