Thanks for the word of support, welcome and advice. Nice to know there's no significant changes between 2008 and 2009. Incidentally, I contacted Haynes with my query and, much to my surprise and their credit, they got back to be with a detailed reply. In essence, the manual should read 2008 and there's no real difference according to the chief motorbike technician.

I get my hands on the bike proper in a few days so will take stock of everything in the cold light of day then. One the plus side the milage is quite low (18,000 ish) but worryingly service records are 'sparse'. Time to learn to service a Tenere!

Well, here's to a future of posting dumb questions on theforum!

Cheers,