Tenere 700 World Raid tested with MX World Champion Ben Townley

My name is Adam Riemann I just flew to the other side of the

world

with former motocross

world

champion

Ben Townley Ben Are you ready for what could be the biggest event of your career to date? I was born ready Adam was born ready let's see if we can find a cake uh what do you think there are chances that Adam yeah there was a goat cake there? You don't even wear glasses buddy, let me teach you a few things about this adventure game and then check out the other game. I normally run a double rear goggle setup like old man, here we go, we have been assigned by yamaha australia to test the new tnra a700 world

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but we must do it within the order of the guided group, we thought it would be best to give the other riders a head start so we can run at a more lively pace and let the big t-7s eat us up.

You're going to back off a little bit, you can wet my direction now, I'm really going to harden it hard, I'm just going to feel it like what it is right now, okay, let's go, oh, we're. I'll catch them all in about 30 seconds. Black. I like your posture. It's a good posture. lift hard barely hard I just swept up there and then I came under you did it now oh look that was a very sharp speck then a very sharp look is jasmine is the shawn gold hawk so that was sean goldhawk from yamaha australia one signal to keep our The Australia and New Zealand team under control organize our logistics and act as videographer at random opportunities.

Come on? If we cut through this field like a hot knife through butter. Oh, we will. No, we didn't. Instead, we stopped at a corner. and let the herd run away again I recommend you get the hang of this adventure game sean, I'll see if I can keep up, I'm sure you can, here we go, let's go, oh, airtime, yeah, right? what do we have here? Do we have that one? It would have been a good smell if we did. Oh, we have some rats. Yes, I just looked into it. This is a Spanish fire trail.

Hey, yeah, better, better, euro, these definitely handle better without a doubt. Yes, without doing the divisions, divide it. good split, I guess it stuck, I see the dust in the village life, ah, these definitely handle better than the original model, yeah, out of the box, going through that section, so you know there was a little bit of rippling , a couple of jumps and I just feel like it's a more positive feeling, yeah, I hit one of those um, those waves, it was like a well of water with a box on the other side, but at least it didn't go metal to metal, yes, the box. but it wasn't metal on metal yeah and that was just so you know the biggest fault for me was the fork well the fork on the standard t7 needs to go in the trash for a true off roader yeah but I like riding this. right now and going through the previous section we were pushing pretty hard and it felt good, I feel really good, he's into oh this is the other group so we can go, well let's go back and film some stuff here, so we literally went back down the road to film this ground scene and this drone scene and when we came back, everyone was gone, we briefly explained our intentions and that we would contact the group to radio ahead of time and let the event pass. .

The camera crews know we're getting closer, there's no way for him to keep up with us, like it's a race. The pressure of urgency eliminates any thoughts about the bike beneath you and your attention shifts completely to the terrain ahead. In these situations, it's the stable and predictable nature of the Tenere chassis that allows you to ride without distractions. Basically there are no bad manners that will surprise you at speed with this bike oh, we have another car here yeah, yeah, keep it wasted together oh this is great oh this might get a little crazy Alright guys, it's business as usual, we've rejoined the group just in time for some morning tea, come on, let's watch out for that brother, cute little washed eye on your left in your head, good man, good man, she's unstable here, boy, yeah.

These tires are not such a fantastic hull, let's give it that fork, but a crash test that was kind of a test for the crash test, yeah, you just took me out, so, oh, well, how am I going to do it? Oh, I'm on number three on the front casing? I've done it, I think it might be once, actually, yeah, I think I might have you on the kg side. I saw a small shortcut and then I was going. Did you just look at this rumble in the trash can she flying down I turn the thing on get up it's pretty good um once again we found ourselves at the front waiting for the rest of the group, so we took the opportunity to capture some.

Anyway, more adventure is better than a kick in the nuts, Sean, so hook me up with one of those Spanish cheese balls, huh, standing still at another point in the photo is making us anxious for the content, so we look for another Adventure video opportunity on a nearby trail after arriving. through these trees, let's hit it oh, there's a lot of water in the lens, from right to right, take a little. The only tricky part about letting the group ride is that we don't really have navigation or GPS, we rely on reading the tracks left by the riders and following their distant dust trail, not uncharted territory for me having competed in races in the desert and wrote many rally events, while Ben runs his own adventure travel company in New Zealand, so he also has a lot of experience riding on foreign terrain.

I see dust down there, the steering damper worked great, so yeah, I hit a rock and it just brings it back if I see something, oh, it's down there, oh farmer, did you do it? I'm on it, oh yeah, and I'll just pass. drifting oh yeah yeah, back to the front of the group, time to try a different strategy with the lead rider who basically gives us instructions for the next 20 kilometers or so, stop at the next corner, okay, get to the road, yes, yes, how. Much better are these footpegs than the old block, yeah, yeah, it just feels a lot more, uh, platform underneath that attaches to the bike, yeah, open up, oh oh, look at it, look at it, let's make it v2, let's make it feel much faster . that 130 hey, yeah, Toby, and that figures they're doing it like 160 170 oh, they do it, they do it with the kids, this is some good footage here, yeah, yeah, this is a real itinerary, now we're starting To do it, really, we are almost in enduro territory. covering multi-oh look at the riverbed here yeah friends oh look at the rats get in the single just get off in those ruts here we go here we go wild this is sick which way the markings go can I see rats right there is there ever son there is evan they're a bit of sand for the fog than a mush, I think he meant that we, oh yes, this yes, we turn around there in a bit of a motorcroft situation, yes, and now you've really pissed him off, yes, well, I have done.

I lost my tape wait, I think we'd have maturity passing by here in the stalkers oh he's coming in you stopped and I was engaged in the big climb this was the climb on his map this is how we climb the spaces we've used the most of the Half of the bikes now have a 23 liter fuel capacity, so they are really starting to feel like big dirt bikes. Well, he once said that he wants the outside pass. What a day we flew halfway around the world for an exclusive ride on this new bike and while our agenda was totally different to most others here, we feel like we've

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and revealed the true performance of having a700 world

raid

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Many thanks to yamaha europe for organizing a great event and putting it all in the space of 300 kilometers. every improvement they made was an improvement over the stands, so the footpeg suspension screen seats the seat, that whole fuel range, even look, we actually had a hot dig, we had to work with the structure of the launch, which wasn't easy to compile content, but overall, a big thank you to yamaha australia for bringing us here. It's well worth having spent a day cycling, if you want to cycle all over Australia, that's got you covered and it's just the start.