Good Bye Yamaha's !

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Its official now . Sold the T max 500 scooter to a close friend to be used at the drag strip as a pit bike , and grocery store errand runner .
The 2012 Super Tenere sold yesterday , but still here as new owner asked me to make all the needed repairs . Son sold it @ pay off of $3800 so guy got a sweet deal .
Super get new Oxford heated grips , Tires , throttle cables , and a left front turn signal . Everything is ordered , and in route .
Soon to be a home of Two Suzuki's only :) I can hardly tell you how nice this will be to not have to tend to so many rollers . Frees up room in the garage , and my nice shed out back . Lawn mower was telling me the Super tenere has bad gas ;)
 
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c10 said:
Its official now . Sold the T max 500 scooter to a close friend to be used at the drag strip as a pit bike , and grocery store errand runner .
The 2012 Super Tenere sold yesterday , but still here as new owner asked me to make all the needed repairs . Son sold it @ pay off of $3800 so guy got a sweet deal .
Super get new Oxford heated grips , Tires , throttle cables , and a left front turn signal . Everything is ordered , and in route .
Soon to be a home of Two Suzuki's only :) I can hardly tell you how nice this will be to not have to tend to so many rollers . Frees up room in the garage , and my nice shed out back . Lawn mower was telling me the Super tenere has bad gas ;)
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I hear you there....it was a pain in the arse to maintain multiple bikes...I had 5 bikes for a long time which all needed to be fussed over....I think I spent more time doing maintenance than riding sometimes...

Feel the freedom brother....
 
Thats awesome!

So ill tell you guys a funny story. When I was selling my Corvette I ran into a sweet deal on another one I could not pass up. Of course, broke as a joke, I could not pay for both so I financed the second one really quick and put mine on the market. It took a month to sell the second one and I hated it. I had to keep both of them clean one for myself one for a potential buyer. The battery in one kept dying every 5 days so I had to keep them running. I told myself no way I would do 2 cars again LOL. So now I have two bikes but those arent so bad. I don't know how you guys do it with 4-5 bikes!
 
c10 said:
Its official now . Sold the T max 500 scooter to a close friend to be used at the drag strip as a pit bike , and grocery store errand runner .
The 2012 Super Tenere sold yesterday , but still here as new owner asked me to make all the needed repairs . Son sold it @ pay off of $3800 so guy got a sweet deal .
Super get new Oxford heated grips , Tires , throttle cables , and a left front turn signal . Everything is ordered , and in route .
Soon to be a home of Two Suzuki's only :) I can hardly tell you how nice this will be to not have to tend to so many rollers . Frees up room in the garage , and my nice shed out back . Lawn mower was telling me the Super tenere has bad gas ;)
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How many miles on that thing? You are giving it away!!!!! Kind of want one after seeing yours now LOL
 
Slowstang305 said:
I told myself no way I would do 2 cars again LOL. So now I have two bikes but those arent so bad. I don't know how you guys do it with 4-5 bikes!
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It was a pain....at one time I had 6 bikes, 3 of which were Honda dirt bikes and needed their fair share of maintenance as they were always dirty, chains were the biggest pain as I seemed to be always cleaning them.

Two of the other bikes were older ('86 pop up Katana and '85 GSXR) they seemed to be wanting love quite a bit too as I wasn't riding them much...
 
Slowstang305 said:
How many miles on that thing? You are giving it away!!!!! Kind of want one after seeing yours now LOL
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$3800 with 36,xxx miles . Most of this age / mileage are in the mid 5 to low 6,xxx range depending on mods / condition . This bike has a OEM top case , and a few small items . I give it a 75 for condition before the repairs / service , and about a 85 when its done . It was a commuter in California its entire life till last year it became a shed queen lol
 
I thought long and hard about your Tmax. Looks like it went to a happy owner :)
 
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ME too Bill ! I have room in my garage , and shed now . Still planning to purchase the New V strom 1000 soon.
My Dealer reached out to me saying they had a 2020 Adventure ( what we want for color black ) the would transfer from another store , and hot set it for me to ride . ( Hot set is make ready to ride ) Its cool knowing people in the industry . Of course the guy is my old room mate I stuck up for in our early 20's , and got him into the motorcycle industry .
 
Cantab said:
Hey how was the fueling on this , was it snatchy ? and did the clutch suffer any judder like the Vstroms and SV 1000s ? From what ive read the Gen 1s were prone to this. The Gen 1 one i rode before lockdown seemed ok to me but it may have had some fixes done already.
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It was great but learned today the ecu was flashed as the bike reached 139 mph in 5th and did a small wheelie in tour mode .
These are not possible in stock ecu form .
The flash make tour like oem sport , and sport picks up avg 22hp . This explains why it carried front wheel so well in 2nd gear to 3rd . Also stock is limited to 122 mph indicated or 117 GPS mph . Clutch was a non issue. However ABS is terrible kicking in
On dry roads straight up with heavy pulse in pedal and lever felt . Just like the Yamaha FJR1300.

My all information Tenere buddy's bike a 2013 model.

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c10 said:
It was great but learned today the ecu was flashed as the bike reached 139 mph in 5th and did a small wheelie in tour mode .
These are not possible in stock ecu form .
The flash make tour like oem sport , and sport picks up avg 22hp . This explains why it carried front wheel so well in 2nd gear to 3rd . Also stock is limited to 122 mph indicated or 117 GPS mph . Clutch was a non issue. However ABS is terrible kicking in
On dry roads straight up with heavy pulse in pedal and lever felt . Just like the Yamaha FJR1300.

My all information Tenere buddy's bike a 2013 model.

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Cool all good info thank you :thumbsup:
 
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