Yamaha XTZ 750 Super Ténéré review. The classic bikes that won Dakar. Part 6 of 6
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- The Yamaha XTZ 750 Super Ténéré won Paris-Dakar a total of seven times and went on to be one of Yamaha's most loved bikes of the nineties. In this video, I explain what made it special and what it's like to ride off-road.
Please don't let this be the last bike video Harry, loving them!! Maybe one of the CBX?
+1 on this, more bikes please Harry!
CBX and Z1300 would be great!
+3 for more bikes please Harry!
Man, look at this ! th-cam.com/video/oh2E6rf_wpk/w-d-xo.html
THE GUZZI PLEASE!!!
90mph across a field is seriously committed, lol. Great stuff Harry.
Should have done a ton.
The exotic cars are great , the trips to Monaco are excellent .. but the Dakar bikes and trips to Pyrenees / Morocco/ Spain on bike trails are just in a class of Thier own .
Thank you Harry
Thanks for watching? No! Thanks to YOU for making them!
This was my first "big" bike, coming from a 125cc scooter. Lots of great memories. Same year, same color scheme. It was such a good bike around town, and an even greater bike for touring with bags and a passenger.
Was a very popular bike here in France, of course this style was big on the continent before UK & USA etc. Stephane Peterhansel is a legend here.
He's a legend everywhere. So many times competing at Dakar both on bikes and in cars and so many wins with both too!
I sold my bike in Italy before moving to another country, and the buyer drove all the way from france with a trailer to pick it up.
More bike videos please Harry. Loved this series. Fantastic content as always. Recently bought 50 past issues of EVO magazine and love nothing more than reading them!
This has been a great series of videos for us bike/Dakar fans...thanks! Steve
Loved this series! Nice to see a collector who actually rides the stuff!
Thanks!!! I lived in Bamako, Mali in the early '90's. This was THE bike to have. Great memories - especially trying to max a Yamaha 100 in town, at night. Cheers!
Thank you for taking the time to do these bike videos! They’re great!
Tremendous series, Harry - thanks so much for sharing. Looking forward to future videos as always.
Keep the bike vids comin Harry, plenty of bikes in your colection to keep us happy .
The video I feared. Had one. Always regret selling it. It was absolutely mint. Went to Ireland. Gonna watch it then head to classifieds 😀
Really enjoyed this series Harry. Thanks for sharing your collection with us 👍
Here we go!! The first one of these I've actually ridden!! Token sumpguard can be grounded on track, if you're committed enough! 5 valves was a Yamaha thing since the first FZ750s in 85..... The flatspot can be cleaned up relatively easily with a dynojet kit. Brings it alive. More bikes videos please Harry!
Yes, more bike stuff please harry.
Hope there’s more bike videos (and purchases) to come Harry. 👍
Great series Mr Metcalfe. Really enjoyed every one of these bike videos. Thank you
Great video Harry. As a born again biker I bought one of these and took it France, Spain , and Norway. Great fun!
I agree …1 million thank you for doing videos of the incredible bikes of PD race. Any off-road Moto-X or Enduro, PD type works Factory made race bikes always fascinated me. I love the smell of Bel-Ray in the morning…. Thanks Harry and please,please, keep the videos coming… we love em’, well done ole’ friend.
Another brilliant vid Harry - hopefully it won't be the end of the bike content.
Enjoyed the series looking forward to the road series.
'Here we go'. Epic. We need more bike videos please Harry. This Dakar series has been awesome
Love the series. Please do more bike videos! On and off road is both fine.
This has been a great series. I never knew much about this era of Dakar. Please keep the bike videos coming along, I spied cool Guzzi in your collection that looks right at home next to these
I've a XTZ 750 year 1996 color "dark amaranth queen". Great, great bike! A friend of mine has done 245.000 km. without opening the engine.
I had one of these bikes about ten years ago as my daily transport. After three years of ownership, all I can say about it is that it was very heavy especially that bloody throttle. Top marks to the dudes who man-handled them in off road competitions.
Thanks for sharing your Dakar bikes with us. I enjoyed that very much.
Great series Harry. Would love to see you test some other old classic bikes. 90mph on that bike was brave.
I’ve owned an ‘83 XT600 Tenéré, 2008 XT660 Tenéré and my last bike, a ‘94 XTZ750 Super Tenéré. Loved them all! Just sorry I never got to take any of them to the desert…
This is the video I needed after long day at work
Love the content, pls more bike reviews, I’m riding a Yamaha xt600
Greatseries, partly because of this series I bought a CRf250L for green laning and loving it. Cheers Harry!!
A great series of videos Harry… will look forward to more 👍
I had a black and purple trim XTZ that was sadly stolen. Totally agree that they make better road bikes than offroaders. This has been a great series, thank you.
Loving watching harry use the bikes as intended. In yams defence on the weight, when they built them, plastic tanks were illegal in the UK so they had to have whacking big metal ones.
Great series, Harry! Keep them bike videos coming!
Many thanks for letting us share your Dakar bike passion. Immensely enjoyable videos. Would love to see some more, please.
Thank you Harry for this Dakar Bike series.
I enjoyed that!
I'm new to off road bikes,your dakar bike videos inspired me to get one of my own!
I picked up a mint one owner 1991 Suzuki DR 650 dakar, fun bike to ride, so light and smooth,kick start only, love it!
More bike videos please😀
All your videos are great, WE LOVE THE BIKE VIDEOS
*Sir Harry* Cracking fun segment. The new Ténéré T7 2021 is the business for off road riding!
My Great Grandad was a landowner in Lincolnshire back in the 1930's and his sons used to race their motorbikes on there. My Grandads brother Charlie, was the secretary of Louth & District Motorcycle Club so he and his brothers, my grandad included, nagged their Dad to let them have a track on the land so initially a chalk track was laid down. Riders started coming from several miles away and so each year, the events were getting bigger. Even cars raced there back in the day after a proper track was laid. The place I am talking about is Cadwell Park. I loved spending weekends there as a child. It was sold iirc in the early 1980's as my Grandad & Great Uncles who owned it since my Gt Grandad died, were all of retirement age.
I despatched in London on a 600 Ténéré in the mid 80's.
It was perfect for the job.
Left a few good dents in the taxis that try to kill despatchers for stealing their parcel business. Not a scratch on the bike 😁
I did take it green laneing, but only once.
Excellent series. What an awesome collection.
Enjoyed the bike series, my favourite was the GS 800, from a period when bikes were more simple and basic.
No such bike !
Perhaps use its proper name ?
R80 G/S.
An 800cc GS or a
GS 800.
The BMW.
Great series and.. that is the one bike I could not bring myself to buy, for some of the reasons you mentioned, too much weight, little engine braking and, as a bike from a dealer was more a styling excercise, 900ie or original Africa Twin 650 any day.
Really enjoyed this series Harry thanks and as others have said more Bike stuff please.
Cheers Harry. Farm riding is the best. Love this series 👍
Really enjoyed this series. Please do more bike videos.
Love it dude. I am a car snob with a few cars but love the motorcycle videos. Got my first bike on the wall at my staff canteen
Hi Harry,
I've been watching your videos on an off for sometime now and recently subscribed as I am very impressed with your straight talking and very sensible points of view on the cars and bikes you drive and ride. I've done a bit of off roading in Scotland and 90 off road takes some guts...I don't blame you for not doing a second run.
Kind regards Paul
As the owner of a super ten, yours is in far better condition than mine!
I had a Super Ten in the early '90's and loved it. Used to take it between Shrewsbury and Bury St Edmunds every weekend and it had huge road presence in the M6 traffic on a Friday evening! It was super heavy though.
love the content Harry, both the 2 and 4 wheels ...
CBX please Harry> I had one of the first in the country in 1978 I think. What a motor. I should have kept it!
As you probably already know, they fetch ££££ now! I had a Z1300 after passing my test in '82. Quite a bit heavier and less sporty but one hell of an engine!
Got one of those too and I completely agree with your summary! That Z1300 motor is quite something, even in comparison with the CBX, but then so is the weight of that bike..
I have one of those in my garage in Spain, bought for 300 Euros in 2010. Apart from some sun damage to the plastics, its immaculate. The idea was to use it around the campo, but I quickly came to the same conclusion: Its a handful on unmade tracks. My XT660 took over, and the Super Ten was retired to the garage!
Love them all. Thanx for sharing, good work Harry...
Rode one of these around Australia for 2 months in the mid 90s, and it was the perfect bike for that, fast enough on the road, and well suited to the endless red dirt roads of the interior. It was also absolutely reliable the whole time, despite being 2nd hand with 40,000km already on the clock. Unlike my one of my mates bike, he picked a Aprilia Pegaso 600, it proved to be a constant source of ball ache and trouble, the other mate we went with bought a Suzuki DR800, which was also almost boringly reliable. But the XTZ was the winner, wish i could find a decent one here in NZ.
A very enjoyable series of vids Harry👍 The "wish list" exotic car tests are great viewing too but being a long term biker I'm just biased! Looking forward to some 2 wheeled road action!👍
Thank you Harry for the 6 videos 👍
Really enjoyable series of videos; some great bikes from the heyday of the Dakar.
The first 10 seconds, best part of the video
Very watchable series 🏍
Love the bike videos 👍🏻
90 mph across a stoney field 👊👌.... respect to you sir !
Great video, great bike 👍
Wonderful garage ! The Dakar story !
Excellent series Harry, great bikes, great presentation. Thank you very much
I love that the YT autocaptions at the beginning identifies the engine sound of this bike as 'Music'.
Great series this, it was interesting to compare the capabilities of each bike, with some suited more to off road stuff than others. More bike content would be good to see, a road trip on the CBX would make good viewing.
Around that time a friend bought himself a Kawasaki Paris-Dakar style bike, it was a 650 single with amazing torque, and he let me ride it. The darn thing could power mono in third gear. I have a great affection for bikes of this era and style.
Keep the bike videos coming -- as well as the XJC!!
Really enjoyed these bike videos thanks Harry
Loved your Dakar collection videos Harry,do more bikes please. as a biker I enjoy your car vids but LURV the bike vids.cheers from a BMW GS1200 rider
Sorry to see the end of this great series
I owned a black one for a few years, only got my Licence in 2006 and got a bandit, the S10 was my second machine, took me and the wife 2 up and luggage/camping from Sheffield to Sardinia, and back. Each day was the furthest i had ever ridden. We did a tank of fuel a day and the guys filling up as the fuel stops kept looking for fuel on the floor as I got them to squeeze 27l in ! On the Return we went up through Aosta and over the St Bernard Pass (lovely clear day) it started to not run right and I began to panic.. it was only at the summit I realise there is a lack of O2 at altitude :). Wish I never sold it. I replaced it with the 'new' tiger in 2011
Great series on the Dakar bike's.
Great videos, Harry. More bikes, please!
Nice little series. Very interesting.
@harrys garage you've missed one last big beast
Fabrizio meonis ktm 950 adventure!
Thank you for this most enjoyable series.
Really enjoyed this series Harry, and I'm not even in to bikes. More world be ace.
Great to see,, get the cbx and the z1300 out of the garage and do a video of them I'd one of each of them in my late teens early 20s, great bikes,, now it's a mortgage for a cbx and over 10 grand for a decent z13,,, from Northern Ireland greatly appreciated thank you ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
Have really enjoyed this series, Harry, even though I'm not a complete bike nut (I say that as someone with a Ducati in the garage...). Thank you!
Loved mine! The first bike I ever owned :)
I was looking forward to this video - so glad you made it. First of all let me tell you that your channel is my most favourite one of this type. Spot on and low key at its best. You do an amazing job.
About the bike:
I owned a 92 ΧΤΖ750 for 7 years. Most of what you say is correct but it is more fair to compare dry weight since the amount of fuel you carry is your choice. Considering this, yes the XTZ750 is heavy, yes it could be lighter but it's not THAT heavy (for example the Africa Twin 750 was even heavier). The problem is that the bike is very top heavy or at least feels like and that puts the limits on what you can do off (and on) road unless you are Stephan. This bike was a great idea from YAMAHA but went into production very roughly without any significant development. The pre 92 models had a ridiculous rectifier (hence yours let you down) and also missed a spacer between the engine and the frame causing cracks in the latter close to the left rider's boot area. Chances are yours is missing that too so take care on those jumps (if you need more info I can gladly help). Regardless the year all carbs let you down sooner or later causing consumption (in the best) and performance (in the worst) issues. The former can go double and the latter might leave you with one cylinder dead and flooded. You can make it home with a trick on the spark plug (I can provide details) but don't let yourself convince you it's over - it will do it again soon. The bike screams for improvement in many areas but YAMAHA never bothered. It's got an impressive engine that could do wonders even today many decades later and that's the best thing about it. Pity they lost the chance to make one of the best bikes ever. They could if only they matched the right parts from their shelves without spending on R & D. One of the worst crimes in motorcycle history. Pity.
Again, congratulations for the great job you do.
Fantastic. ..love that old iron
Love to see the daddy to my TDM850!
Dry sump, vertical stacked trans and 5 valves heads.....all in the 80's!
BTW, the flat spot very well could be worn emulsion tubes. Its pretty common on those engines, is easy to change and gave a big drivability improvement on my TDM after 45K miles of the strong intake pulses banging the needles into the tubes.
Respect Harry
Grabbing great big handfuls of throttle there
Absolutely love your channel! Would love to see you review some vintage European and Japanese road bikes too.
Always liked these rode 1 of a friends years ago
I,m Polish but your english are so perfect..
Don’t let this be the last off-road video. That being said, I can’t help to be concerned about those 100 mph field passes. You sir are an automotive treasure.
Good stuff Harry, having had many bikes over the years mainly road bikes, sports & touring including VFR, and BMW R1100/1200RT.. the only off road looker I had was a BMW F800GS which I liked a lot...
Thanks for sharing! Thas was an awesome series, comparing all these bikes.
Thanks Harry👍👍👍 love my Ténéré ❤️❤️
It’s a shame they put limits on the engine sizes. Would love it if they opened up an unlimited class for all engine sizes.
Thank you for sharing your collection with us!
Really interesting series, it'd be really good to see you ride a modern Dakar bike to see how far they've come along.
Very enjoyable watch. Top class series 👏