The Tenere exhaust hangs down a lot more than the Tuareg – gotta be a lot easier to scrape on a rock. Uh, Yamaha, check the side-by-side photo above and fix that please.
I don’t think the exhaust is a big deal. They both come out under the foot peg and cross the swingarm right in front of the tire. After that the Yamaha is a little disadvantage, but maybe neither bike should be in rocks that tall.