Hi all,

I have a 2010 Tenere and I've just hit 30,000 miles, most of which has been in the past 2 years (mostly road use with some greenlaning). Recently it has developed a very nasty sounding engine noise.

For the past month, once a week, I have been doing quick motorway runs of about 200 miles sitting in top gear at high speed (obviously not what it's designed for). At the last oil change I took out about 1.8l so pretty low although my dealer said that shouldn't have caused too much damage??

https://youtu.be/Qjxm532PJZs

Also in the past few months the bike developed a backfire although this didn't affect the performance or sound of the bike. When cold and rolling off the revs the normal popopopop was replaced with silence from the exhaust before BANG. I mentioned it to the garage who said not to worry

I 'might' be running a little rich too. My fuel trip is kicking in about 20 miles sooner than before although this could be my riding.

So pretty stumped and not sure where to start. I've never worked on the tenere's engine before but I'm stupid enough to consider it. My girlfriend and I, although inexperienced, have done some open heart surgery on an old DR650 and learnt a lot so would be willing to dabble if time allows.

Hope you can help - thanks in advance,

Greg