The rally began in 1978 as a race from Paris across the Sahara to the Senegalese capital of Dakar, but switched to South America in 2009 for security reasons. It moved to Saudi Arabia in 2020 and ...

In 2018, those in the motorcycle industry began hearing whispers that Yamaha was getting ready to unveil a new version of the Ténéré. In 2019 Europe was the beneficiary of the new Ténéré 700.