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Originally Posted by ouroboros2015
I've had my 2009 Ten for about 8 years now. It's done over 40,000 trouble free miles. UK to Malaysia and around South America with no issues. Very reliable bike. Did some pre-emptive maintenance before I set off to address any potential issues and it has never let me down. I rode with someone on an R for a while: he had some problems with a water pump seal but otherwise the R performed very well until it was stolen in Australia.
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40 000 miles are not exactly very much. 95% of all new bikes will roll their first 40 k miles without any issues. Come back please when you have 100 000 miles on it...
The Ten is NOT a reliable bike. There are for example potentially almost 2000 bikes with gearbox failing. The 2009 (and early 2010?) models. Now everybody likes to give shit to BMW, KTM, Honda etc when they have recalls on their bikes - Yamaha doesnt even recall or fix anything on warranty even though they have admitted that there was a failure when producing gearboxes that year. Do you still have faith in Yamaha???
I have mention names on persons with Tens and their problems - where they broke down etc etc and I could have mentioned many many many more. Have a look on the Tenere forum I mentiond above and see what the huge plethora of problems Ten owners have...
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In the end everything will be fine. If its not fine its not the end....
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