Just doing a walk around the bike and........

Roge

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................ there lying on the floor of the garage 3" from the back wheel is a spoke nipple. A thorough check of the back wheel, nothing missing. Check the front and sure enough there was the dark whole and the end of the spoke. So with a 108km round trip to work the nipple fell of less than the length of the bike from where it stopped in the shed and just sat there in plain view.
I think I need to procure a much longer 5mm Allen key though to save some of the skin on my knuckles.
 

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Yeah, I have my spokes ziptied so that if one does manage to throw the nut off, at least it won't swing around and mangle my swingarm.

I have a 5" hex key and a tall socket that fits it, which gives me more than enough leverage on the short end of the hex key to tighten the spokes.
 

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Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place, newbie.

While you are checking spokes have you come across the rim being cracked?

I have cracking all the way through the wheel where the spoke flange meets the rim and between half a dozen spoke holes, only used the bike on the road, never been cross country.

Bike however is a 2010 first edition with 42,000 miles on it.
 

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Aarcher said:
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place, newbie.

While you are checking spokes have you come across the rim being cracked?

I have cracking all the way through the wheel where the spoke flange meets the rim and between half a dozen spoke holes, only used the bike on the road, never been cross country.

Bike however is a 2010 first edition with 42,000 miles on it.
Damn that sucks! I have 130,000ish miles on the two Tenere I've owned and have not seen it.



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Checkswrecks

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Aarcher said:
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place, newbie.

While you are checking spokes have you come across the rim being cracked?

I have cracking all the way through the wheel where the spoke flange meets the rim and between half a dozen spoke holes, only used the bike on the road, never been cross country.

Bike however is a 2010 first edition with 42,000 miles on it.

This can happen by not checking the spokes, as they will seat or loosen differently, creating stress at the holes. That or over-tightening them.
 

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Bike has been dealer serviced since new, so would have thought they'd have checked the spokes, obviously not.

Just wanted to flag it up so others can keep an eye on there's, not just between the spoke holes, also where the flange joins the rim.
 

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My local supplying dealer didn't have a clue about spoke maintenance, I had one come loose and bend causing minor damage soon after the initial service. Yamaha UK paid for the whole rear wheel to be rebuilt. Needless to say the dealer had to get a wheel builder to do the job. I cable tied the spokes on the rear wheel.
I regularly check all the spokes front and rear, approx every five hundred miles, not found one loose yet.
 

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Blue Loctite and I also painted a small straight line between the spoke nut and spoke easy to check then you can see if things are getting loose if the two lines are drifting apart.
I had my rear rim go cattywampus then started collapsing on me at 70mph due to lack of proper spoke adjustment (Not on my part).
It will feel like your getting a flat at first, don't apply the breaks just let off the throttle and then ease the break.
Can't say this is the proper method or luck but I didn't crash. :eek:
 

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Is there a recommendation for torque specs on the spokes? I've dealt with dirt bikes for decades, but I'm not sure the "tighten it until it doesn't sound flat" method is something I want to rely on with this bike. On my dirt bike I don't worry about it too much, but I'm not traveling thousands of miles at 60-80mph on it either.
 

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Beachernaut said:
Is there a recommendation for torque specs on the spokes? I've dealt with dirt bikes for decades, but I'm not sure the "tighten it until it doesn't sound flat" method is something I want to rely on with this bike. On my dirt bike I don't worry about it too much, but I'm not traveling thousands of miles at 60-80mph on it either.
Welcome aboard. Search is your friend and the torque is in this thread, which is a stickie for reference:
http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?topic=3632.0
 
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