Have I mentioned how much I hate the stock wing mirrors on the R. Hate-them! The ones on the S are a bit better...odd.
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2018 KTM 790 Adventure
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Good stuff
See how it goes in the summer and/or off road................
Andres
Should be fine off-road, especially as it was made by a guy at Sweet Lamb for all of their 790 academy bikes......
KTM Croydon just sent me an email and text they have the 790R in stock.
I have recently been trying to find out why try My Ride function on the bike does not display routing information on the dashboard.
The dealer has just called and advised that yesterday KTM issued a technical notice informing dealers that the initial batch of bikes had navigation disabled as the software was not certified for road use.
Bikes being delivered now have the correct software, but if you have an early bike you need another software update so that the display will provide direction information from the phones MY Ride connection.
The dealer has just called and advised that yesterday KTM issued a technical notice informing dealers that the initial batch of bikes had navigation disabled as the software was not certified for road use.
Bikes being delivered now have the correct software, but if you have an early bike you need another software update so that the display will provide direction information from the phones MY Ride connection.
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In the UK it costs £7.99 to download the KTM MyRide app onto your smartphone. You then download maps within the MyRide app by first selecting continent, then country. This could be a slow process if you want all of Europe—for example, the UK maps are 1.2GB and I'm currently on a 2Mb/sec microwave link to a dish on the next mountain in Spain.
Once you've downloaded the app and the maps you no longer need Internet connection, just Bluetooth for the phone to communicate with the 790's TFT combination display.
At this stage this is similar to having Google Maps on your phone together with offline maps. In fact you could use now MyRide as a navigation aid in the car.
Both Google and MyRide will offer turn-by-turn navigation but Google offline maps for the UK are over 2GB so clearly include more information. Ah, but not all the KTM dealers!
So you choose your destination on MyRide. You can also setup via waypoints by name or browse map—not sure if there's a limit to the number of waypoints. You can tell it to avoid tolls, highways and/or unpaved roads, then pick quickest or shortest route.
Press start and it comes up on the navigation section of the KTM 790 combination display telling you how far to the next turn and showing a pictogram of what you do at that junction/roundabout/whatever.
For simple trips it sounds fine.
I’m aware of above and all of that works fine. The part that’s does not work on first delivery bikes is the display of direction messages on the dashboard. The reason given it was not certified in time for the bike shipping.
I have the app, I have the downloaded maps and they all sync and direction works well to my SC10 comms. Just won’t display arrows and direction info until the TI installed.
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Yes, that was an issue I picked up on the test ride. Good you know how it all works.
Just had my first service done and dealer had a bulletin through today -the early bikes like mine have an issue in the dash to link iPhones to nav readout and requires a dash replacement under warranty rather than just software upgrade
The irony
If this was BMW you would be shouting it from every rooftop but as it is KTM. ......
Another beta tester but this time it is orange.
Actually I really couldn’t care less.It’s not a feature I’ll use anyway as cant be arsed to download big files for mapping to the My Ride app on phone and then just get basic guidance when I can just use Google Maps instead,like I did on 1290.
Yes - I agree
Same on the BMW - a waste of time
Must admit I am thinking of a 790 myself as it looks a great bike
I think these systems are still light years behind a Garmin / Tom Tom, maybe handy for when you get a bit lost near home, or want to do a simple journey, but until they have a proper map on the screen - ideally with lane assist, a European camera / "safety zone" database and the ability to load complex routes and display tracks I would still need a proper nav device.
Phone Integrations would be handy, but the Garmin does that, and even when in the UK I have the Nav fitted 99% of the time as it literally takes 3 seconds to clip it in and when off bike it gets stashed with lid in top box (and will fit in jacket pocket)
A mate today......
Who makes the tower ?
And if modifying the bike why would they make the exhaust stick out even more ?!
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