It is not likely Malaysian riders will get to see the 2021 Yamaha Tenere 700 locally outside of grey imports, though this dual-purpose middleweight is available in both Thailand and the Philippines in the ASEAN market. What is interesting is the Tenere 700 is offered in the Philippines with a factory lowering kit.
Comprising of two components, the Tenere 700 kit comes with a lowering kit and a lower seat, reports topbikes.ph. The standard seat height on the Tenere 700 is a lofty 870 mm – the rather more hardcore Yamaha Tenere 700 Rally places the seat 890 mm off the ground – which presents something of a challenge for some Asian riders.
Adding the lowering kit and low seat drops the seat height by 35 mm to a more manageable 835 mm. The Tenere 700 retails at 619,000 pesos (RM51,912) and the lowering kit and low seat are priced at 9,600 pesos (RM803) and 4,500 pesos (RM376), respectively.
The Tenere 700 was first launched in Europe in 2019, developed from the Yamaha T7 Tenere Concept Dakar Rally off-road race bike. It made its way to the Thailand market in May 2020, price tagged at 439,000 Thai baht (RM58,934) before debuting in the Philippines in 2021.
Carrying Yamaha’s Crossplane 2 liquid-cooled parallel-twin displacing 689 cc, the Tenere 700 produces 72.4 hp at 9,000 rpm and 68 Nm of torque at 6,500 rpm. Fed by EFI, the Tenere 700 gets power to the ground via a six-speed gearbox and chain final drive.
Targeted towards the rider who does more work off-road than on tarmac, the Tenere 700 is less an adventure-touring machine – Yamaha provides the Tracer 900 for this – and more dual-purpose riding. This is shown in the 43 mm diameter upside-down forks with 210 mm of travel and a 200 mm travel monoshock at the back.
Tyre sizes are also oriented for off-road use, 90/90-21 rubber in front and 150/70-18 at the back. The Tenere 700 weighs in at 205 kg and fuel is carried in a 16-litre tank which gives a claimed 350 km range while braking is done with twin 282 mm diameter hydraulic discs in front and a single 280 mm disc on the back, and switchable ABS is standard.
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Come on la Hong Leong Yamaha Motors. What the hell are you doing?
In the Malaysian mid-weight ADV category, Honda has it’s CRF1100L, KTM it’s 790 Adventure, BMW it’s F850GS and Triumph it’s Tiger 800XC. Tenere 700 will easily take a large piece of that pie as a do-it-all machine.
P/S: Grey market import price is RM84k. This bike should only cost about RM64k under HLYM.
About a month ago, I called HLY directly to ask about the arrival of the Tenere 700. The person who answered didn’t even know of such model. Very annoying when your neighbouring countries have access to this bike and you don’t. I think if they price it slightly higher then the MT07 and cheaper then the rest of the competition, I will be the first to get it. But HLY is least bothered I think…last I saw this bike was in 2019 MotoGP.
Hong Leong Yamaha Motors, the worst importer for yamaha motorycles:
1) Did not bring in the Tracer 700, competitor of the Versys 650.
2) Did not bring in the Tenere 700, no reason why
3) Did not bring in the MT-10, same engine, better riding position than the R1, cheaper than it also don’t want to bring it in Malaysia.
Literally the worst distributor of Yamaha Motorcycles Malaysia can have, can we get a company which understands us malaysians and import all this bikes I’ve mentioned. It’s silly, pathetic and weak of Hong Leong Yamaha Motors to not even distribute these 3 bikes to Malaysians to see how it goes.
Honestly, thats why we can’t have nice things, because a company is too pussy to bring in bikes like this due to lousy reasons like ”won’t sell well”. Nonsense just bring them in, I want to buy them!
With hongleong malaysia bring in tenere 700 soon 2020?