has anyone looked at the KTM adventure ?

would be the sensible choice after ducati , ie large Vtwin

a couple of mates have owned them and raved non stop about them , 1 went cape york and back , other only sold his as gone to canda

I have ridden a rather old GS early model and later pre current , both rather weird and not really my cup of tea

I haven't looked at them but I have heard that there spares/bling range is eye waveringly expensive even compared to Ducati or BMW.
I think it might be too focused a bike though compared to FS/GS bikes.
And I have to agree also that the GS has become far too big a bike for it's own good.

I hope ya's do know I'm taking the piss...    

and yeah I know all about evolution!
this is what I was riding today... tell me thats not evolution!!    

That's gorgeous!

Goodoya i say Vince..........like me, i bet your heart sais Ducati...........But if one ventures into my garage......well,.....need i say more...........                Hope you enjoy it as much as i do, my "non Ducati".............(Harleys excluded of course)
Brian          

Quote from: monsta on April 10, 2011, 02:57:27 AM
this is what I was riding today... tell me thats not evolution!!    

Beautiful 

The GS bikes are intended as adventure tourers. Let's be clear about the touring bit - designed to cover a shitload of kilometres in comfort. The adventure bit is the terrain discussion - the 1200 GS's are really for fire-trails and not much else. The F650GS and F800GS are "more" enduro than the 1200GS, but are not truly functional dirt bikes. You can get anywhere in the world on a dirt bike, but your body might give up on you before the bike does. The GS's will get you almost anywhere and pretty much in comfort.  The DR650 is a great bike, but perhaps a bit more enduro than the 800GS.
Really just a case of looking at what you want to do with the bike. For touring, camping, 4WD tracks, then the 650GS/800GS are absolutely ideal.


ps. my bias is known.

Quote from: mostro900 on April 10, 2011, 11:58:16 PM
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ps. my bias is known.

Mostro900 aka the Sherpa Advocate!   

Quote from: monsta on April 10, 2011, 02:57:27 AM
I hope ya's do know I'm taking the piss...    

and yeah I know all about evolution!
this is what I was riding today... tell me thats not evolution!!    

  Thats a beautifull example of a beautifull bike. I love the way the headers turn blue. Was that for sale on ebay about a year ago, the owner was in Perth but the bike was in Sydney ?

  A friend of mine bought one new, about $3000 at the time and it came with a race kit, 40 tooth rear sprocket, 40mm dellorto's and the conti's. He also had a double seat caus we rode it up to Forster one weekend, about 800k round trip. I remember revving it out in 3rd an hitting 160kph as you hit 4th, with still 5th to go .WOW, Quite something in those days . A memorable ride, well it was the 70's an I still remember it !

Quote from: rendang on April 13, 2011, 04:37:48 AM
  Thats a beautifull example of a beautifull bike. I love the way the headers turn blue. Was that for sale on ebay about a year ago, the owner was in Perth but the bike was in Sydney ?

  A friend of mine bought one new, about $3000 at the time and it came with a race kit, 40 tooth rear sprocket, 40mm dellorto's and the conti's. He also had a double seat caus we rode it up to Forster one weekend, about 800k round trip. I remember revving it out in 3rd an hitting 160kph as you hit 4th, with still 5th to go .WOW, Quite something in those days . A memorable ride, well it was the 70's an I still remember it !

thanks rendang..   nah, it wasn't off ebay.
It came in, in a box at work. Came from Darwin complete with wasp nest's in every oriface possible.The idea at the time was to rebuild it and use it as a test/showcase bike for the veetwo product. It was kinda my job to rebuild it when there was a quiet periods in the workshop (took about 2 yrs I think). I didn't rebuild the engine, one of the other guys did that,  but I put new guides and seats in the heads and rebuilt the crank. we sent out the painting and plating, and I pretty much did everyhing else. Had to make a lot of stuff... (yep, I had a good job)
Anyhow veetwo went all pear shaped and they decided to get rid of it. They had a guy lined up to buy it, but when he draged his feet I put my hand up. I was a bit stuned when they took my offer, because I had to come up with the fun tickets!
It lives inside and rarely gets ridden, I have it under historic club rego, cheaper,but you only ride on club rides.
Yeah,in the late seventies a lot of my mates back in Lithgow had Ducati's I had a kwaka z9!
swore... that one day I'll have one of them things!!   

sorry bout threadjack Dock....

Quote from: monsta on April 14, 2011, 09:18:34 AM
sorry bout threadjack Dock....

Can't be a threadjack ... he still hasn't said what he did.

For all we know he bought a 70s bevel ... which he may, or may not, have put a BMW badge and knobby tyres on.