Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The world would be a sad boring place if everyones taste was the same.You can't stand the look of the OEM shitty boxes, yet you opted for these........
Haha, that is so funny. The bike looks like it ran into the back of a photographer's van.You can't stand the look of the OEM shitty boxes, yet you opted for these........
I am doing pretty well. We did a nice trip up to Temiskaming Shores, Espanola, Manitoulin and the Soo, about 4000km of which about 1000 were off road. She is a bit of a Hippo but did really well and I made the switch from my Skinkos to the new TrailMax Missions. Just regular maintenance and let her go. Some really nice roads, both paved and gravel. We left Sudbury, went to Killarney and were heading down 522, just no gas stations around. Finally got one in a lumbar/general store, then rode around Muskoka for a while. Just took the OEM hard bags off and put the soft ones back on so the mileage should improve.Hey how ya doin Suck squeeze bang blow?
My Tenere is coming up 41,000 km soon. I'm going to have to get the valves set/checked and new plugs.
All I have done so far is oil filter pumpkin fluid and an air filter, miserable job changing the air cleaner. LH crash bar had to come off, and make sure that the gas tank is low.
I don't know how to set valves so if I can find a shop I trust then I'll have it done.
Running fine, like the day I picked it up.
(March 2019)
As mentioned, it guzzles gas at higher speeds and I have a tall Yammy windscreen.
SHUMBA
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I have BUMOT Xtremada Soft Panniers and they do not seem to collect bugs or have an noticeable effect on wind resistance. I watched the bikes avg mpg get better in some of the area's where I was running 70-75 mph indicating 58 mpg on cruise. My avg mpg is around 48 mpg as most of my riding is on 55 mph two lane roadways and 20 to 35 mph on well maintained gravel roads. My bike is stock '16 ES running Metz Tourance Next tires, Vstream windshield and Givi 46l topcase.On my flashed ST I have been as low as 36 mpg going thru Wyoming, loaded, during a major rain storm with high winds and as high as 60 several times here in Colorado on 300 to 400 mile trips. My panniers don't seem to make a difference. They are only 7 inches wide (Happy Trails) and they don't seem to collect bugs. Maybe that is the big difference. I get more bugs on my shins and the wings than the panniers do. Over all I average 50-55 pretty consistently. That is a mix of highway up to 80 mph ish and dirt roads and trails. Much above 80 mph and the milage really takes a dive down to around 40-45 mpg. As mentioned, aerodynamics are not the bikes best feature.
I would ass-sume the increase in mileage is from engine improvement. . . . and that oh so lovely cruise control.My 2013 Tenere averaged about 42 mpg, the 2018 is about 50 mpg, both bikes had the same Yamaha factory luggage But the 2013 did have a slightly bigger windshield.
The only time that she's "rattled" is when the wife and I were in stop/go traffic and it was over 90 degrees. That's also one of the few times the fan has kicked on. I use premium Shell 'cuz it's still cheap around here; I also heard that it has ethanol, but not as much as regular. Don't know if that's true, but I do know that when I was using it in the Charger, the mileage/performance kept increasing over time. Shell claims that their premium cleans the motor, and returns the performance to like new.Yes, premium gas, manual says so.
Regular gas will work so long as you are not
A) heavily loaded
B) riding hilly areas
C) hot temperatures 20 C (68 F) or higher
D) hammering the throttle
Additionally, regular gas contains ethanol and ethanol has less BTUs than gasoline.
Ethanol attracts moisture when bike is in storage.
Back in IL, all the gas of every octane rating is 10% ethanol.Well, assuming you are in the U.S., our premium gas, 91 octane or higher generally doesn't contain any ethanol.
Shell gas Canadian tire to name a few.
All depends on where you live and how much the farmers are being subsidized.
If a government mandates the use of ethanol, then you are stuck with it.
Does the burning ethonal reduce pollution, yes, but only very marginally.
So how much diesel fuel is burned in producing ethanol?
Soil tilling, planting, fertilizing, harvesting, transporting to the ethanol plant, then, how much natural gas is burned in the process, along with the air pollution of the fermentation of the corn, I know, I lived down wind from an ethanol plant...Greek
Or is it yuk, kuk, ???
You figure it out.
SHUMBA
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Oh for sure. Ethanol is big business back home as a *ton* of corn we grew was for ethanol. It was very political as you might imagine.Yup, I line noise, er, Illinois. Big corn state, y'all good at it. Farm machinery manufacturers, ah, the list never ends.
It's all about subsidization.
I'm all for farms and farming, cause I live in a big agricultural (county) area. Wheat, barley, beans corn...and a host of other grains...we need our farmers...
Also too, we have very large hog, chicken, Turkey and beef producers in the area.
Just Google Huron Perth county Canada agriculture.
But I don't understand why ethanol has become a necessary additive to gasoline.
Ethanol, highly refined, has many many uses, everything from good booze, er moonshine, to hospital use, disinfectants etc..
Sorry to run on like this, but I see both sides of the picture
SHUMBA
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