Adjust the fitLowering kit, bar risers, rearsets — see how mods change your posture›
What-if only — simulates common aftermarket changes, not the stock bike.
Seat height875 mm
Forward lean0°
Knee angle91°
Hip angle117°
Data confidence: HighWhoever opens it sees your size and fit adjustments on this bike.
The Yamaha Ténéré 700 (2019+) has a 875 mm (34.4 in) seat height and a 1595 mm wheelbase. For an average 175 cm rider that works out to about 0° of forward lean with the knees bent to about 91°, and that rider can get neither foot down. See the riding-position diagram above, and enter your own height and inseam to see your fit.
The Yamaha Ténéré 700 (2019+) in the real world
The Ténéré 700 is built rally-first, and its ergonomics say so before you turn a wheel: an 875 mm seat, a flat and narrow saddle you can slide along, a high wide bar, and a seamless transition to standing on the pegs. Seated on the road it’s roomy and upright; the moment the surface turns to gravel, the whole cockpit makes sense. That’s the deal — genuine off-road geometry in exchange for one of the taller seats in this database.
Australian owners are blunt about both sides. Tall riders call it one of the best-fitting adventure bikes at any price, with legroom that road-biased ADVs can’t offer. Shorter riders talk about the workarounds: letting the bike settle into its sag, sliding one hip off at stops, and the thriving market in lowering solutions. The flat, firm seat is superb for moving around on and famously hard on the backside by the end of a long freeway day.
Who the Ténéré 700 fits
Excellent for riders 180 cm and up: open knee angle seated, natural standing position without risers.
Riders around 175 cm typically get the balls of both feet, or one foot mostly flat with a hip shift — workable, but practise the technique before you load it with luggage.
Under ~170 cm the stock height is genuinely challenging; budget for a low seat and/or lowering kit as part of the purchase, not as an afterthought.
The narrow saddle helps reach more than the 875 mm figure suggests, but the firm flat foam is a touring trade-off — it’s shaped for standing and moving, not cushioning.
Common fit & comfort changes
Low seat — Both Yamaha’s accessory catalogue and the aftermarket offer lower Ténéré seats — the first stop for shorter owners, typically clawing back around 20 mm without touching the suspension.
Lowering links + fork drop — The bigger intervention, commonly 20–40 mm. It meaningfully changes stops for riders in the low 170s, at the cost of some of the ground clearance you presumably bought the bike for.
Comfort / touring seat — The opposite problem: riders who tour big kilometres replace the firm rally seat for padding, sometimes gaining height — tall riders sometimes fit these deliberately.
Most of these can be previewed on your own body with the “Adjust the fit” sliders in the simulator above.
The Yamaha Ténéré 700 (2019+) has a seat height of 875 mm (34.4 inches).
Can a 175 cm rider flat-foot the Yamaha Ténéré 700 (2019+)?
On its 875 mm seat, a 175 cm rider (about 80 cm inseam) can typically get neither foot down on the Yamaha Ténéré 700 (2019+). Taller or shorter riders differ — use the simulator to check your own ground reach.
What is the riding position of the Yamaha Ténéré 700 (2019+)?
For an average 175 cm rider, the Yamaha Ténéré 700 (2019+) riding position (also called the seating position) works out to about 0° of forward lean with a 91° knee bend. See the riding-position diagram to judge the posture for your own body size.
Is the Ténéré 700 too tall for short riders?
At its stock 875 mm it’s one of the taller seats around: riders under about 170 cm will be on tip-toes or a single ball of the foot. It’s still rideable with technique (one hip off at stops) and very commonly lowered — a low seat plus lowering links can recover 40–60 mm. Put your inseam into the simulator to see exactly where you start from.
Is the Ténéré 700 comfortable on the road?
The posture is upright and roomy, and taller riders find it genuinely spacious. The firm, flat rally-style seat is the weak point on long bitumen days — great for standing and moving around off-road, less kind after several highway hours. Touring owners often fit a plusher seat.
Seat height & wheelbase come straight from the manufacturer’s published specs, verified across the maker’s site, media reviews and spec databases.
Handlebar & footpeg positions aren’t published by any manufacturer. Where a true side-profile photo exists, we mark five reference points on it (front & rear axle, seat, grip, peg) and convert pixels to millimetres using the known wheelbase as the scale. Where it doesn’t, we research the grip and peg heights and estimate the horizontal reach from class-typical geometry.
Every result is cross-checked against how reviewers describe the bike’s posture (upright / sporty / committed), and each bike page carries a data-confidence badge so you can see how solid its numbers are.
The drawing is a clean schematic — one shared template per bike type (naked, sport, cruiser, adventure, touring, dirt), anchored to each bike’s real seat, grip and peg coordinates — so you compare riding positions, not paint jobs.
Your figure is a stick model built from your height and inseam using standard body-proportion ratios, then posed by inverse kinematics — hips on the seat, hands on the bars, feet on the pegs — with the same posture solver for every bike.
Bottom line: seat height & wheelbase are hard data; handlebar/footpeg geometry and ground reach are calibrated estimates (see each bike’s data-confidence badge). Always sit on the real bike before you buy.