Welcome to the Ténéré Tragics

The inaugural Ténéré Tragics Run to the Rocks was staged in 2011 in the spectacular Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Every year through the decade since then the Tragics have gathered in different states of Australia in the first week of March to overdose on the Ténéré spirit. 

However due to Covid-19 restrictions the 2021 Ténéré Tragics Ocean to Outback Run was rescheduled ... twice! But then, at the third attempt in May 2022, the heavens opened just before the new date and the planned Run from the north coast of NSW to Longreach in central Queensland was washed out after large chunks of the Sunshine (!) state went underwater. To say the Tragics were gutted is an understatement.

So we're heading back to the drawing board and back to the maps to ponder where our next Tragics gathering might take us ... therefore if you want to run with the Tragics, use the Contact Us tab and ask to be added to our database to receive Ténéré Tragics Run ride info.

My name is Clubby but they call me Captain Tragic. I've been a longtime dirt bike magazine editor and Ténéréitis sufferer. For years I suffered in silence, until my good mate Lance, who also had the same affliction, said, "Hey, if we run a ride just for Ténérés, do you reckon anyone would show up?" So we did, and they did, with almost 50 newfound fellow Ténéré Tragics coming from all around the country for the first-ever Ténéré Tragics Run to the Rocks in the Flinders Ranges in 2011. We've been hosting the Run every year since and along the way it's become the world's biggest annual celebration of Yamaha's mighty Ténéré and Super Ténéré adventure machines.

The Ténéré Tragics share one thing in common: an overwhelming passion for the Ténéré brand. No matter whether they themselves are young or old, or their Ténéré is an original 1983 model 34L or the latest 700 or 1200, the mystique of Yamaha's legendary go-anywhere adventure machine is what brings us all together. The Tragics come from all around Australia, they can be fathers and sons, they can be lady Tragics too, but to a man and woman, the biggest ride of the year for all of them is when they run with their fellow Tragics for five days straight and overdose on the Tenere spirit.