Yamaha Ténéré 700

The Yamaha Ténéré 700 is a dual-sport motorcycle that Yamaha has manufactured since 2019. It has a 689 cc parallel-twin engine driving the rear wheel through a six-speed gearbox and chain, and brakes with an ABS system the rider can switch on and off. Nicknamed the baby Ténéré, it is the latest in a line of dual-sport Yamahas named after the Ténéré desert stage of the Dakar Rally in the Sahara, and it succeeds the XT660Z Ténéré. Yamaha first showed it as the T7 concept at EICMA in 2016, expecting production in 2018, and a refined concept followed a year later. Deliveries began in Europe in July 2019 and reached the United States only the next year because of emissions and regulatory delays. Its liquid-cooled 8-valve DOHC engine with a crossplane crankshaft was already used in the MT-07 and the Tracer 700.