The end of February 2024 I took my Yamaha Tenere 700 on a long distance motorcycle trip covering 1900 miles in six days. I rode through southern New Mexico, west Texas and southern Arizona. I rode part of the Arizona
Backcountry Discovery Route and rode many other dirt backroads on my way to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. It was a great trip and gave the perfect opportunity to really get a feel for the Tenere 700. Over this trip I found what was good, what was bad and unfortunately what is turning out to be very ugly. Take and look at what I found.