For Sale KTM 890 Adventure – Fully Loaded Adventure Bike

[keithquad]

A genuinely go-anywhere KTM 890 Adventure S with thousands of pounds of premium upgrades and accessories. Exceptionally reliable, dealer serviced throughout its life, and set up for serious adventure touring and off-road riding.
£4,850 ovno
Mileage 35000.

Year February 2022.

Owned from new. MOT & Taxed.

Recent Maintenance

• Rear tyre replaced within last 1000 miles
• New chain and sprockets within last 1000 miles
• Front sprocket fitted with 1 tooth less than standard for improved low-speed and off-road gearing
• Tractive rear shock recently serviced

KTM Factory Options

• Quickshifter+
• Rally/Adventure riding modes
• Adjustable traction control and rear wheel slip settings
• Road, Rain and Adventure modes
• Heated grips
• Cruise control
• Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS)
• Additional auxiliary lights
• Large touring screen
• KTM alarm system
• 2 keys and 2 alarm remotes

Premium Upgrades & Accessories

Protection & Durability

• AXP heavy-duty belly pan
• R&G radiator guard
• Headlight protector
• Triple Clamp engine guards (LHS & RHS)
• Triple Clamp headlight support brace
• Front mudguard extender for muddy off-road conditions
• Camel shock shield
• Touratech rear brake reservoir cover
• Touratech rear brake cover

Suspension

• Tractive fully adjustable front and rear suspension (£2,700 upgrade)
• Widely regarded as superior to the standard suspension package (WP)
• Rear unit recently serviced

Comfort & Control

• Seat Concepts low seat
• X-Trig handlebar clamps
• KTM reinforced handguards with aluminium backbone
• KTM Adventure footpegs
• Doubletake mirrors
• Oversized sidestand foot

Touring & Adventure Equipment

• Garmin Tread GPS mount and wiring installed
• Tutoro automatic chain oiler
• Fuel exhaust (made in Kendal)
• KTM/Touratech top box operated by ignition key
• Bobbins fitted for paddock stand use
• Adventure/race air filter (oil foam filter)

Brake & Gear Controls

• Rade Garage adjustable brake and gear levers – excellent kit
• Raised rear brake platform for standing riding position
• Adjustable gear lever position
• KTM short levers (clutch/front brake)

Included with Sale

• 2 spare rear Bridgestone tyres
• 3 spare front Bridgestone tyres

This is not a standard 890 Adventure. It has been thoughtfully upgraded with high-quality components throughout and is ready for touring, green lanes, TET routes, or long-distance adventure travel.

 

[keithquad]

OK so I know asking this question invites a whole hard of views …, all of which is taken as feedback.
What are people’s thoughts, recognising its not a good time to sell necessarily, is this too much?

 

[richh]

It's a hard market that's for sure.

People want mint bikes for peanuts.

Much as always.

Have you tried the big sites like eBay etc?

 

[keithquad]

It's a hard market that's for sure.

People want mint bikes for peanuts.

Much as always.

Have you tried the big sites like eBay etc?

Hi - yes presently on EBay & Facebook, about to put on Rallymoto as well.
Thank you for the response though.

 

[GTMorgan]

Probably be a fair amount of work, given the number of parts you've fitted to improve the bike but, maybe put it back to standard and flog the parts?
Assuming you still have the standard parts, a lot of trick stuff you have which should sell well I'd have thought?

 

[richardbd]

Not sure whether this helps but my own experience over the years of selling heavily fettled or farkled bikes is that you get next to nothing for the add-ons - especially when the bike has plenty of miles on the clock.

It seems daft but it’s a fact that we get penalised for using these bikes the way they’re meant to be used.

I’d be inclined to see what the same bike is selling for without all the extras, strip what you think is saleable of and sell it separately - and be patient. I recently sold the Tractive suspenders off my 850GS on here, 18 months after taking them off the bike. Took time but it’s still £750 that I wouldn’t have got if I’d left them on the bike.

GLWS…

 

[Mr Derek]

People will be put off by the high mileage and KTM's reputation for unreliability and there's nothing you can do about either. I agree that stripping the farkles and selling them separately is probably the way forward, but even then the base bike will need to be very competitively (cheap) priced to sell. Shame, because it's a brilliant engine and its reputation is worse than its reliability. Mine, in 790 form was faultless.