I'd ridden for long years and approx 75.000 kms a 34L whitout ANY problem...but - as always- all depends on the previous use -and care- of the bike ! Tenerés and XT's 595 are -by experience- the sturdiest of engines (even heard of Honda quality? try to find a used XR or XL head ...) but they broke too ! I made a seizure on my 1VJ when hurrying to coming back to work from Alps run at 140/150 km/h for one hour and half ...forgiving that the "short" 14 pinion was mounted and the rev-counter broke ...was running flat out thinking of the mess at work and suddenly the speed was lowering to 110 ...stop to see if she needed some oil (yes ) and luckily still carried me home with the usual horrendous clanking sound ...
the moral of the story : instead of getting a Tenere ...get two ! or even three ....then it will be simple to swap pieces..rebuild engines and so on - fortunately in Italy there is plenty of XT & TT , some of them "demolited" (plates retourned to MOT to don't pay property tax) ...
Otherwise there are LOTS of newer & more performant bikes...but I wouldn't scary you with my friend "list of broken things" of a KTM 520 2001...or other scary stories about a DRZ-E (that's a pretty reliable bike too!)
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