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Originally Posted by Snakeboy
Thanks for your eh…. insightful analysis of the Yezdi Adv.
It sounded almost similarly bad as my 660 Tenere that I took around the world and left me stranded and disappointed for up to 6 months at a time….
They told me it was to be expected and an important part of the adventure….
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I like the "insightful" moniker to my above description 
In the unlikely event I'd return to India to ride, my bikes of choice would be a RE-H or a Hero Honda Xpulse. Not because they're any good, but because the entire subcontinent is full of their dealerships and their bikes. Yezdi dealers and bikes are next to non existent.
Other than at a Yezdi event in Pollachi, TN (great people and interesting 2-smokes from the 1970s...) I visited 3 of their dealers (helpful people, except lack of ability by one service department to fit an oil filter correctly) and saw only 2 Yezdis in 4 months, 1 of which was a cruiser rather than an Adventure. Don't believe any claim they're selling many of them.
PS. I blew up a gearbox on a borrowed 660 Tenere in Mexico once. Upon some Google research it turned out it was a known problem on that particular batch of (2008) Yamaha engines, except that mine blew up on 60k miles, where most went bang at around 30k. Not an ideal situation, but made my chat with the bike's owner substantially easier
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