Yamaha Ténéré back - and better than ever (Motoring.co.za)
Model(s) covered: 2009 Yamaha Ténéré
It's a name to conjure with – the Ténéré desert is one of the world's most inhospitable places, a vast plain of North African sand covering 400 000 square kilometres from north-eastern Niger into western Chad.
The Ténéré was the scene of some of the most epic battles of the early Paris-Dakar rallies in the 1980's – battles which were won nine times by riders on Yamahas derived from the XT500, Japan's first big four-stroke dirt bike - and it gave its name to Yamaha's first go-anywhere tourer, the XT600Z of 1983.
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