2026 1390 Super Adventure S Evo

[Arsey]

The new nav system is quite innovative. Same as the RC8R, maps can be downloaded to the unit and used offline with no phone link required .
Dunno if it’ll let you download routes though ?

Some more info

Prices don’t seem daft compared to the opposition with the standard S coming in at £16999 and the S Evo coming in at £18999’ complete with latest radar cruise bollox, AMT and lithium battery etc .

 

[Eastmidsbiker]

Love it, just been watching a couple of video's on the R which looks pretty good too.

R advertisement

Chris Birch on a pre-production model making it do pretty cool things.

 

[G&T]

Regardless....KTM would need to secure my trust. That would mean no quibbles 5 year warranty...or more. Stand behind what you have made and they will come.

 

[Arsey]

Regardless....KTM would need to secure my trust. That would mean no quibbles 5 year warranty...or more. Stand behind what you have made and they will come.

Damn . It’s only a 4 year warranty . They’ll be kicking themselves . Nearly had a sale

 

[Belco100]

4 year Warranty and breakdown cover with 32,000 mile valve checks. Pretty good.

 

[Rasher]

With the lack of trust in KTM I will wait untl the end of the year when they have a warehouse full of them and are knocking them out for £12k

 

[Arsey]

We have ignition

 

[Arsey]

It does look rather good

 

[Arsey]

 

[Arsey]

Now thats a tool kit . All held in by magnets

 

[Paul S]

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Now thats a tool kit . All held in by magnets

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KTM have always had a decent tool kit and still got several of their beer bottle openers

Pitty BMW no longer do the same. The one that came with my R100GS PD

 

[Arsey]

 

[Rasher]

Lots of tech, what could possibly go wrong???

Still waiting for a base model with:-

A key (been bloody reliable for centuries),

Conventional suspension (reliable, rebuildable or replaceable - and comparatively cheap to replace fully if needed - and no "codes" to clear when it gets "confused", or worry about the £1000 ECU that controls it shitting itself.)

17" front wheel - why have a semi-offroad wheel when there is an off-road version all those who want to ride offroad buy anyway?

No Navigation - onboard stuff is always shite, incompatible with nice toruing routes carefully crafted, in basecamp / MRA etc and once the new model appears in a few years they will stop offering map updates (or charge a fortune for them)

No Auto-Braking - seeing as most problems with modern KTM's are electronic related i'd rather not be riding along wondering when it will get confused, maybe a paper bag wafting in front of it causing it to slam the anchors on just as white van man is 2 inches from my exhaust.

Lower exhausts - since most of us don't cross rivers on £20k / 250kg bikes, they could just lower the exhausts and give us two useful panniers instead of one.

So, I am mightily impressed with the technology, but would not trust it and do not wish to pay for it, will keep my 2018 1290S, and continue to mourn the flogging of my 1190S which was probably the best bike I ever owned, and if it had conventional suspension and cruise control I would probably still have it - yes I like Cruise, and with fly-by-wire throttles you might as well, its just a few extra lines of computer code.

Now where's the sales brochure for the new 800 Tiger Sport.

 

[Belco100]

17" front wheel - why have a semi-offroad wheel when there is an off-road version all those who want to ride offroad buy anyway?
Lower exhausts - since most of us don't cross rivers on £20k / 250kg bikes, they could just lower the exhausts and give us two useful panniers instead of one.

Got to agree with that. Before they had all of their problems when they were testing their new models there was another version that got caught testing a few times. This had a different exhaust, 17" wheels and a new swingarm on the back for a wider back tyre - looked around 190 but hard to tell. Shame that hasn't progressed.

But I am happy with all the other Tech on the bike - you can even get central locking panniers on this one.

 

[Arsey]

Got to agree with that. Before they had all of their problems when they were testing their new models there was another version that got caught testing a few times. This had a different exhaust, 17" wheels and a new swingarm on the back for a wider back tyre - looked around 190 but hard to tell. Shame that hasn't progressed.

But I am happy with all the other Tech on the bike - you can even get central locking panniers on this one.

Was that not the 1390 Super Duke GT, which is currently on the back burner?

 

[Arsey]

 

[Belco100]

Was that not the 1390 Super Duke GT, which is currently on the back burner?

It was a while back before the official 1390s were shown (2023?). One of the German websites caught 4 or 5 different Super Adventure styled bikes, all basically the same but in different formats, one even had wings tacked on. This one was labelled the Tourer (T) model, with lower exhaust, new swingarm and 17" wheels front and back with the back having a 190. This is about the only image I can still find:

EDIT: This is a good view of it when it was still being tested:

 

[MILLE_RIDER]

Yuk

 

[Arsey]

 

[G&T]

Has it said which offline navigation the TFT is using? They just skip over it.