The story of Tenzing the Super Tenere

[Peril]

Also found a very mint 87 Tenere if anyone is interested.Puts mine to shame really.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-171825975.htm
And sorry Ryan for highjacking your thread

[cooneyr]

Also found a very mint 87 Tenere if anyone is interested.Puts mine to shame really.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-171825975.htm
And sorry Ryan for highjacking your thread

No worries - but you might want to check that link. May be buy now has been hit already?

Cheers R

[Peril]

Wow,it was there like 5 mins ago!

[JATZ]

Also found a very mint 87 Tenere if anyone is interested.Puts mine to shame really.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-171825975.htm
And sorry Ryan for highjacking your thread


I'll let you giys know what it's like after Mrs Jatz rides it home from Chch this w/end

[Peril]

Also found a very mint 87 Tenere if anyone is interested.Puts mine to shame really.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-171825975.htm
And sorry Ryan for highjacking your thread


I'll let you giys know what it's like after Mrs Jatz rides it home from Chch this w/end

It didn't last long.I'm sure it wasn't on T/M yesterday,so you got it pretty quick.
Hope it's as good as it looks.

[JATZ]

It didn't last long.I'm sure it wasn't on T/M yesterday,so you got it pretty quick.
Hope it's as good as it looks.

The guy who own'd it's a mechanic, still needs running in aparently so a good run from Chch to home should do it good.
Mrs jatz has wanted one of those since they first came out

[cooneyr]

I'll let you giys know what it's like after Mrs Jatz rides it home from Chch this w/end

Congratulations, sounds like a nice bike. They seem to have a bit of a cult status in Europe. Got any picys you can put up here?

Cheers R

[JATZ]

Congratulations, sounds like a nice bike. They seem to have a bit of a cult status in Europe. Got any picys you can put up here?

Cheers R

No, no photos, cant seem to access the listing, will take some when I see it in the flesh.

BTW any body interested in an F650.

[Padmei]

Well done mrs Jatz very quick. Can't access the auction. Whats the specs colour etc?

[cooneyr]

Finally got a chance to get Tenzing naked last weekend while doing an oil change. Kinda a long way around of doing an oil change (dont need to get him naked) but wanted to have a look at the air filters and the condition of the plastics while I was at it.

Turns out that the plastics have seen better days but there is enough tabs etc still present that I'm not going to get any work done on them at this stage. Probably better to save the pennys for a new fiberglass set from pommy land when the time comes.

The air filters (yes there are a pair) are rather interesting though. Definatly has a set of K&N's as I was told but they are an interesting shape. The air passes from the "inside" to the outside i.e. all the crap collects in the inside. This will make them hard to clean and I'm not fussed on K&N's with all the dust I seem to ride in. Did a web search and nobody offers a foam filter set for the XTZ750 and aftermarket paper filters will cost about $90 for the pair - ouch.

Thinking of trying to make some foam filters or making a fitting to put pod filters on (while still inside the air box). Problem is though that most foam pod filters, especially the two stage ones, appear to be designed to flow air from the outside to the inside of the pod. I recon I can get a pair of uni filters single stage pods like below to work but will they get "sucked" to bits seeing as there is no support on the outside of the filter?



Another option as I see it is to make my own support cage and get some sheets of filter material to make my own filters. This should hopefully be easier to clean than the pods and if things go wrong I hopefully shouldn't end up with filter material down the throat of a carb. This is going to be a heap of mucking around though (but not too hard).

Last option is to ditch the air box altogether and just put pods directly onto to carbs but given the amount of water crossings etc I do I'm not at all keen on it as the carbs are quite low and they are down drafts near the front of the engine making water induction very very likely - see the attached pics.

Also interesting to see how low the whole engine is in the frame. There is a heap of free space above the gearbox as the air box mounts over the frame (under the tank) above the carbies. Also the bike looks small the bike looks with out the damn big and heavy tank. The tank about 3/4 full of fuel, say 19l, the weight of the steel tank itself and the tank support frame was bloody heavy to lift of and I'm not a small dude. A set of the front pannier style plastic tanks like on the Dakar bikes would be very very cool. Seems the idea was around long before KTM started putting the front pannier style tanks on the 950 dakar bikes and then 950 adventures.

Any suggestions on the air filters welcome. The air box is about 100 deep, 100 wide and 150 high.

Cheers R

[NordieBoy]

I recon I can get a pair of uni filters single stage pods like below to work but will they get "sucked" to bits seeing as there is no support on the outside of the filter?

The internal spring in the filters is just to hold the shape.
Shouldn't matter which way the airflow is going really.

[JATZ]

sounds like you have the same sort of setup as the DR, air goes into the centre of the air filter and passes to the outside, my new air filters are about $80, so I'm a bit better of there I suppose.
I don't know if the link is any good to you, but it's what a guy called gaspipe has had done to his bike, could be worth a look.
"edit" I'll just stick a picture in here aswell.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...ighlight=dr750

[warewolf]

I thought UniFilter or someone in Aus either sells a "make your own custom filter" kit, or builds custom filters. IIRC one of the Aussie advriders had some made for his AT or TA.

If you built them yourself, you could glue the first/second stage layers "inside out" to match your bike's flow.

PS I wouldn't go to pods; airboxes do wonderful things for your bike's state of tune. Lid on/off/loose can have a dramatic effect on some bikes. Taking it away altogether is bound to be problematic.

[cooneyr]

I thought UniFilter or someone in Aus either sells a "make your own custom filter" kit, or builds custom filters. IIRC one of the Aussie advriders had some made for his AT or TA.

If you built them yourself, you could glue the first/second stage layers "inside out" to match your bike's flow.

Yep Unifilter sell sheets of the filter material -page here. Was talking to the Pit Lane guys today an they have a it in stock. The problem is that the sheets are a minimum of 3/8' (9.5mm) thick so to have two layers of the stuff (course and fine) means the internal surface area is less than the K&N to be able to fit the external dimensions of the airbox. I'm probably going to have to do one layer of the black fine foam (or red if is seems to fine) so that it flows enough air and make a point of cleaning it often.

ATGreg got a set of filters made for his RD04 XRV750 by Uni I think. Much easier to make one for the AT though as the original filter frame can be made to work with the foam filter.

PS I wouldn't go to pods; airboxes do wonderful things for your bike's state of tune. Lid on/off/loose can have a dramatic effect on some bikes. Taking it away altogether is bound to be problematic.

Defiantly not going to ditch the airbox completely for pods. I was hoping that I could get pods to fit inside the air box but after doing some measuring and drawing in AutoCAD they wont work. The largest pod that will fit has a smaller ID than the paper filter (restrictive) and is to long such that it will impair the flow out the carb inlet tubes.

After doing some measuring and drawing tonight I'm pretty certain El and I will be making our own filters and cages.

Cheers R

[warewolf]

The problem is that the sheets are a minimum of 3/8' (9.5mm) thick so to have two layers of the stuff (course and fine) means the internal surface area is less than the K&N to be able to fit the external dimensions of the airbox. I'm probably going to have to do one layer of the black fine foam (or red if is seems to fine) so that it flows enough air and make a point of cleaning it often.

Filter skins inside the single stage filter to make it like a 1.5 stage??