As I have now had my 1290 SAS for 10 days and covered mearly 300 odd miles (not without the issues, but I wont go into that thing), I happen to notice that as I was applying front brake, the bike did have less stopping power than I was used to on a big lump GSA.
This afternoon as I was fitting pannier rack and lubing up the chain (meh ) I remembered about the brakes, and thought I'd give them a little checking and figuring out.
Bike on the centre stand, I applied front brake and tried to spin the rear wheel with my foot, to my surprise it actually did spin, which explained lack of stopping power compared to GSA.
Do KTM bikes not come with linked brakes then? It seem to be norm over the last 10 or so years for this system to be standard safety feature. I normally use both front and rear brake but on KTM I feel that rear brake is rather vague compared to my last two GS bike and number of scooters before that. On KTM the travel of the reat brake lever seem to be much longer before I can feel any diffrence in braking. Can dealer enable linked brake feature via connection to a computer?
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EV
This afternoon as I was fitting pannier rack and lubing up the chain (meh ) I remembered about the brakes, and thought I'd give them a little checking and figuring out.
Bike on the centre stand, I applied front brake and tried to spin the rear wheel with my foot, to my surprise it actually did spin, which explained lack of stopping power compared to GSA.
Do KTM bikes not come with linked brakes then? It seem to be norm over the last 10 or so years for this system to be standard safety feature. I normally use both front and rear brake but on KTM I feel that rear brake is rather vague compared to my last two GS bike and number of scooters before that. On KTM the travel of the reat brake lever seem to be much longer before I can feel any diffrence in braking. Can dealer enable linked brake feature via connection to a computer?
Best
EV