In short:Although it looks the part, it’s best ridden on the roads or firmer tracks. The image of the double-hard rally rider appeals, in a package that makes riding round town and country lanes a cinch Pros:Although it looks the part, it’s best ridden on the roads or firmer trac...

kept it successful into the Nineties.Now the Tenere is back, and you’ve only got to glance at the spec sheet to realise that the new-generation XT660Z is distinctly different. This Tenere’s liquid-cooled motor, borrowed from Yamaha’s XT660R trail bike

and cool as you like. And image is what this bike is about. After all, it’s not vastly different to Yamaha’s XT660R – the mid-sized thumper road-based trailie that has sold by the bucketload over the last two decades. But who’d buy one of those? It’s solid