The 2021 Yamaha Tenere 700 is a new chapter for Yamaha’s adventure touring model range. The Japanese manufacturer positions this bike as a mid-point between an out-and-out adventure rally racer and a civil, calm street motorcycle. Powered by the same crossplane crankshaft, 689 cc parallel-twin from the 2020 MT-07, sending the dirt flying with 74 HP and 50 lbs-ft of torque, the Tenere 700 comes in at a relatively lightweight 450 lbs.
The Tenere 700 is designed from the ground up to be much more of a pure adventure-rally bike than its bigger brother, the Super Tenere ES, which is an adventure-tourer. This 2021 model strips away excesses and goes on a diet by shedding pretty much all it can and still be considered street-legal. It has no multimode traction control, no panniers, no electronically adjustable suspension, and the only true concession to modern necessity on the bike, dual-zone ABS, has a disable switch that truly and completely turns off the ABS for off-road fun.
What’s left is an adventure bike that, as even Yamaha puts it, a “lightweight, no-compromise adventure motorcycle.”
The Tenere 700 is designed from the ground up to be much more of a pure adventure-rally bike than its bigger brother, the Super Tenere ES, which is an adventure-tourer. This 2021 model strips away excesses and goes on a diet by shedding pretty much all it can and still be considered street-legal. It has no multimode traction control, no panniers, no electronically adjustable suspension, and the only true concession to modern necessity on the bike, dual-zone ABS, has a disable switch that truly and completely turns off the ABS for off-road fun.
What’s left is an adventure bike that, as even Yamaha puts it, a “lightweight, no-compromise adventure motorcycle.”
- Year
- 2021
- Condition
- Used
- Make
- Yamaha
- Model
- TENERE 700
- Price
- $12500
- City
- Odessa
- State
- Texas - TX
- Zip Code
- 79765
