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Old 30-03-09, 14:36
zOU zOU is offline
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Drom, France
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Well, I wouldn't have put it better myself after my first 594km on mine !!!!

- Screen: Brilliant, and I'm 1.86m / 6ft2
- road manners: won't scrape the pegs, but cornering is brilliant
- Saddle: no pb after 7h ride, well, no more than the custom gel seat on my VFR.
- Tyres: approved
- Gearing: I didn't really pay attention to it, although rev limit during break-in period forces lots of gear change
- MPG: did 320km before flashing icon on dash. Added 19l at 370km. So I like it.
- Weight: what weight ? It's a bicycle compared to my VFR
- handguards: I wish I had mine....the bars are backordered and will be posted to me.
So I had frozen fingers.....
- dashboard: very good, although I would have prefer digital rev counter / analog speedo maybe.
- Speed/power: overtaking needs planning, but I think that's mainly because I had a pillion and couldn't rev it too much due to the break-in period. It'll be fine once the 1000km done.

Mine came with the Sirac, but a new black one in the shop had the Tourance.
So it seems to be random.

I've done 30 000km last year and the year before on my VFR.
I think the Tenere will do as much without annoying me.
And now I won't stop when the tarmac does