Z3n
Squid.
I am horribly over-weight and definitely drink more than I should. You might be in luck!
That's a fucking baller ride, I always wanted to build one around the SMC chassis.
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A smaller, lighter KTM Adventure
- Thread starter ilikefood
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That's a fucking baller ride, I always wanted to build one around the SMC chassis.
ilikefood
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Z3n
Squid.
cleverusername
New member
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2011
- Location
- Half Moon Bay
- Moto(s)
- 990 Adv. prev: tiger 1050, R1200GSA, vstrom, 690 SMC, FJR1300, FZ1, RC51, SV650
- Name
- kennef
RightCoastBias
F8TRED
This is my buddy Diego's 690 ADV that he sadly sold to fund a house.
cleverusername
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- Joined
- Mar 20, 2011
- Location
- Half Moon Bay
- Moto(s)
- 990 Adv. prev: tiger 1050, R1200GSA, vstrom, 690 SMC, FJR1300, FZ1, RC51, SV650
- Name
- kennef
super cool!
Lunch Box
Useful idiot
Thanks. I've been thoroughly enjoying it. Hoping to drag it down to Baja this Winter, too.
That would be fun. I do want to try the 390 Duke when they arrive, too. Ground clearance for proper hooligan riding would be my only worry on the duke.
Looks like a similar build to mine, but way more shiny.
Mine seems to take a lot of dirt naps on trails and such
OaklandF4i
Darwin's exception
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2002
- Location
- San Francisco and Lake County
- Moto(s)
- Husqvarna FE350, TE300, a vintage CR390, and BMW R1200GS
- Name
- CJ
Uhmmmm - still heavier than my 990 Adventure.
And the 990 already has more power than I really need. They need a 790 Adventure V-twin that weighs closer to 400 pounds. I would trade my bike in for that one.
Boom. A sub $10k, sub 400lb, 300 + reserve mile range, 600-800cc twin, would be a winner
Whats crazy is that BMW was pretty close 30 years ago with the r100gs. Hopefully things are starting to swing back towards less powerful and lighter multi-cylinder adventure bikes. Someone needs to fill the gap between the thumpers and the 100 hp adventure bike.
NoobCorpse
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Honda's Africa Twin is the great ADV hope that is expected to meet all that criteria, and still be a comfortable DS tourer with full luggage capability.
Based on the prototype they showed this week, I'd say it's possible, but I think the production bike will be closer to the Tiger 800 XC / F800GS than the JesusAdvBike everyone's predicting.
vkb
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Much of the orange kool-aid drinking community is all up in arms over this 1050ADV. They thought they were getting something that would be a 990ADV replacement, a more "dirt worthy" version of the 1190ADV if you will. So, of course they are all disappointed with the specs on the newly announced 1050ADV.
But the thing is this bike was built for a specific demographic, and that is the A2 permit newbs in Europe's tiered licensing scheme. The 1050ADV can be restricted to 48hp, the max allowed for A2 permit holders.
But why not just restrict an existing model like the 1190 down to 48hp? Well, the legalese of the A2 permit states that a bike can be offered as a restricted model only if the "unrestricted" model on which it is based makes no more than twice the restricted limit. So 96hp (48hp X 2) is the magic number and that's why you have a brand new 1050 making less hp than the 990 Adventure, SMT, SM, etc.
But the thing is this bike was built for a specific demographic, and that is the A2 permit newbs in Europe's tiered licensing scheme. The 1050ADV can be restricted to 48hp, the max allowed for A2 permit holders.
But why not just restrict an existing model like the 1190 down to 48hp? Well, the legalese of the A2 permit states that a bike can be offered as a restricted model only if the "unrestricted" model on which it is based makes no more than twice the restricted limit. So 96hp (48hp X 2) is the magic number and that's why you have a brand new 1050 making less hp than the 990 Adventure, SMT, SM, etc.
louemc
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Z3n
Squid.
Because I ride 95% on road. 