TENERE 700 VS LOS ANGELES TRAFFIC |4K| LANE SPLITTING POV

Welcome to Los Angeles.
My bike is my daily therapy, smile source and rip cord to escape the madness of this city.
Follow along for a daily dose of LA seen by me on my Tenere 700 and DRZ400 Supermoto.
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Bike- 2022 Tenere 700
-Dominator GP1 exhaust
- Tusk Tail Tidy kit
- Zeta Armor Hand Guards
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Tenere 700 VS Los Angeles Traffic on 2022 Tenere 700
Lane splitting is legal in California for my out of state/country viewers :-)
If you have any specific ride location requests in Los Angeles please let me know in the comments!

[@thunderbear0]

I like how people are moving over to give you way nice of them

[@whitneyrides]

LA can be fantasic with respect to bikers but also hell with some people.. you meet both every ride.

[@cogordoo]

I thought the same, most of them moved away :)

[@bryter2848]

Thanks. Rush hour can be really chaotic in my city. Was considering a T7 for a daily rider and wondering how it'll work in traffic.

[@whitneyrides]

It handles traffic great!! still tall, skinny, and upright to split if its legal where you are and feels good! but if city riding is going to be your everyday thing I would look into a supermoto, its just a much better answer.

[@peaceandfood7952]

Get a maxi scooter (ak550, tmax, etc...) install a new exhaust, air filter, variator you won't be disappointed...

[@alanstringer7997]

That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a while

[@whitneyrides]

thanks!!

[@sick370zvlogs]

I feel it…. Haha , wish people would move over a bit more and be mindful

[@okinawanah3463]

my FZ09 with aftermarket bars would make short work of that traffic. In TJ it’s worse and the lanes are narrower you need 30” and below and no mirrors

[@paulh6591]

Might be a optical illusion cause by the wide angle lens, but the Tenere's bars seem a bit wide. The first thing I did to my '05 V-Strom 650 back in the day was to saw an inch off of each side of the handlebars before installing heated grips and barkbusters (Washington DC area, daily commuting). I've been wanting a Tenere but there's still a shortage so I'm willing to wait.

[@actanonverba1385]

Yeah I’m trying to get one right now as well and it’s a 4-6 week wait right now after you put down a deposit

[@Tojohiruma]

no they are truly wide, its normal since its a trail and it helps with turning and on the off roads

[@tomalba7]

Did you sell your sumo to get a t7?! I literally just sold my t7 looking to get a sumo 🤣. T7 too big and top heavy for me what do you think now that you switched

[@whitneyrides]

haha! My DRZ was going through a rebuild and I wanted a bike with longer legs for really getting out of town, Love the T7 for exactally that but I hope to pick up a 701 sumo next year!

[@Tojohiruma]

beautiful bike, is it comfortable as a commuter/to ride all day?

[@thunderbear0]

As a commuter it is comfortable and fun bike But to ride all day just change seat, original seat is little stiff with edges that hurts little if you ride more than 1 or 2 hour so just change seat to seat concept's "comfort low or high" according to your height or "comfort sport touring" seat they are amazingly comfortable for riding all day and if you add airhawk air cushion it feels like you're flying on air

[@Tojohiruma]

@@thunderbear0 thank you !! I think im going to switch my tracer 700 for a tenere pretty soon this bike is awesome

[@thunderbear0]

@@Tojohiruma Goodluck but test ride tenere 700 to see if this is really comfortable for you because moving from tracer to tenere is not easy you are going to miss the extra comfort of tracer they both are awesome and capable bikes take time test ride then make decision

[@Tojohiruma]

@@thunderbear0 definitely, thanks !

[@l3ulldozer]

Looks like the most miserable ride on a T7 ever posted ..what a shitload of traffic

[@whitneyrides]

haha welcome to LA! The T7 is actually great at splitting traffic

[@puffdaddyfpv7046]

That fiat at 8:50 has wheelie bars?

[@ethan9553]

lol its a bike rack

[@puffdaddyfpv7046]

@@ethan9553 aha ok, makes sense🧐

[@CoolCoolCool89]

Bro that traffic is horrible