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POL TARRES CARBON YAMAHA TENERE 700 – ONE MEAN LOOKING T7!
Came across this Pol Tarres T7 today whilst browsing the web and you have to say: “that’s a mean looking T7!” Love it! Image credits: @livelike_javi_thewho and @treceracing_society SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERLAND RIDER BLOG Please enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 83 other subscribers.
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YAMAHA TENERE 700 OEM CHAIN GUIDE – GOOD PRODUCT BUT WORTH 90 QUID?
I do like a challenge and manufacturing brackets and parts myself is one of my favourite pastimes. However.. there are also days when it’s nice to install a really simple bolt on mod. Minimum hassle, maximum pleasure. The Yamaha T700 OEM Chain Guide is one of those mods! It’s a nice quality product, looks good and does what it should. It would be difficult to find a mod that’s easier to install than this and […]
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UK CONSULTATION MAY SEE BIKES BANNED FROM GREEN LANES – ACT NOW
A current UK government consultation into the vehicular use of green lanes and even the TET could see motorcycles banned from such routes. MCN writes: Riders are being urged to respond to a consultation on the green road network that could be used to ban bikes vehicles from unsealed and minor tarmac roads. The Government has begun the exercise on the back of the ‘Landscapes Review’ into National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty […]
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A QUICK BLAST AND BACK TO THE SEAFRONT – EAST COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT
Unusually sunny weather (and ((again)) against the Met Office App’s prognosis) led me to stop working at 1600 hours and get the bike out! Only a quick ride but I could just feel my mental health improving by the second. Finished up back at East Cowes seafront, just as the Red Funnel ferry departed, its so-called green credentials rather in question as it billowed diesel smoke from it’s funnels. SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERLAND RIDER BLOG […]
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RALLY RAID SHORT SIDE STAND (KICKSTAND) FOR TENERE 700 REVIEW
I’m 5′ 10″ with a 31″ inch inside leg and as such the T700 is a tad tall for me. Without lowering it I can ride it just fine but trying to manoeuvre the bike whilst sat on it (especially with rally pegs installed) is all but impossible. With the engine going I can move it forward just fine, of course, but the slightest imbalance and the top heavy T700 is heading towards the ground […]
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NEWLY STICKERED OVERLAND RIDER T700 HITS THE STUNNING MILITARY ROAD, ISLE OF WIGHT
The weather forecast wasn’t great for today. Indeed, it’s been fairly miserable for a few weeks now with the odd glimpse of the sun here on the Isle of Wight. Today was forecast as rain 24 hours ago, then revised to cloudy. The Met Office lied! It was definitely windy, though and I think that wind removed the rain clouds that looked set to plague us again. Either way, this wasn’t a day for working […]
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RAM CLAW GOPRO CRASH BAR MOUNT + HANDLEBAR WIFI REMOTE INSTALL
I haven’t virtually any forward facing space left on the front of my Adventure Spec crash bars as pretty much all the real estate is taken up by the Rigid Industries Pods and Light Bar. Handlebars are never the best place for a GoPro and I didn’t want it suckered to my screen so I needed a small solution that would allow movement in all axis. That I found in the shape of the RAM […]
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MEETING JUPITER – AN INTERVIEW WITH TED SIMON
Jupiters Travels – This was the book! I was in my twenties and living in Stockholm. I loved to travel and had left Britain aged eighteen with 50 quid in my pocket, determined to see the places I’d dreamt of whilst ravenously pawing over a map of the world in my childhood bedroom. Eight years and about twenty countries later I was now in Sweden but all was not well. I was in a relationship […]
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YAMAHA TENERE 700 RUGGED ROADS CHAIN GUARD
The chain guard on my T700 was fine.. “Plastic” but fine! So why did I replace it with a raw silver aluminium guard from Rugged Roads? Purely cosmetic geekness, if I’m completely honest. Does the chain guard need to be metal instead of plastic? Nope! Was the plastic one prone to breaking? Nope! Was it overly ugly? Nope! Is the Rugged Roads one seriously better looking? Damn right it is and that’s why I shelled […]
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