ktm 990 adv

[Tobers]

"But I'm the kind of bloke who likes to wave his own spanners at things, and the GS is far much less complicated on that front. No water cooling, no bucket and shim valve adjustment, and life's just too short to fiddle about with messy chains every two days!"

It may be harder to check the valves on a KTM, but try changing the clutch on an R1200GS!! Remove the back of the bike for that on the GS, but a 30 min job on the KTM. It's pretty much horses for courses really, but I really didn't fancy fiddling with my GS whereas I'm much happier spannering my KTM. It'll be interesting to see how you get on - I doubt you'll want to touch much on the GS as you'll risk invalidating the warranty and be in a majorly bad way when something big goes AWOL.

 

[cookiemonster]

Right - think i'm going to get one, expect to see a 12GS in the for sale section by the weekend

Next questions - dealers & prices. Tri-county are the only guys i've talked to; they're friendly but very very small, seems like they would be helpful and perhaps up for doing a deal but i worry a little about their experience with the wonders of fuel injection. Anybody have experience of them, or with any of the other south east ktm dealers? where should i buy from (assuming its a new 990, though that may not be the case)? and where should i get the bike serviced? Anyone to avoid?

Second: Costs - anybody care to share levels of discounts to be expected on a new ktm? pm me if thats more comfortable Kind of expecting to get ~10% off the list plus top box, grips, alarm, heated grips (~800 in total). Am i in the right ballpark?

cheers

jon

 

[ovenpaa]

Next questions - dealers & prices. Tri-county are the only guys i've talked to; they're friendly but very very small, seems like they would be helpful and perhaps up for doing a deal but i worry a little about their experience with the wonders of fuel injection. Anybody have experience of them, or with any of the other south east ktm dealers? where should i buy from (assuming its a new 990, though that may not be the case)? and where should i get the bike serviced? Anyone to avoid?

Second: Costs - anybody care to share levels of discounts to be expected on a new ktm? pm me if thats more comfortable Kind of expecting to get ~10% off the list plus top box, grips, alarm, heated grips (~800 in total). Am i in the right ballpark?

Well I may be slightly biased here but I would say avoid Colin Colins and expect 7.5% plus a bit of a deal on the bolt on parts.

Gear4 had some good deals late last month - Just North of Peterborough.

Good luck with the new bike

 

[Mucky Helmetier]

Bought mine from Premier Bikes but now I deal with Tri-County.

I wouldn't worry too much about fuel experience etc. Clive knows his stuff!

 

[Pat Creagh]

KTM

Both Tri County and Sussexsport are good dealers.
Probably get a better deal from the boys in Bracknell but I've used both and can vouch for them.
Pat.

 

[(RIP) Perryhill]

Right - think i'm going to get one,

You have a PM
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[loueye]

i sold my ktm 950 adventure with race cans, panniers, tankbag, crash bars, heated grips, 2 seats, and a load of ectras for the paltry sum of £4000. IT was a class "C" write off by the time i finished with it. All it was is a few scratches on the swinging arm and a scratched tank, handguard etc. I probably could of got rid of it for a little more, but in the end i was peed off with it breaking down, all because the my local dealer couldn't be bothered to do the recalls.

I think you will love thw ktm, once you remove all the emmission stuff and put some race cans on they fly.
I had 140mph showing on the speedo and i ran out of road (private road of course). They will wheelie all day long. One of the main gripes i had was the windblast at anything over 50mph, try drilling the screen to release the back pressure or even add a little spoiler on the top.

As for working on them yourself they are quite easy, just remember to get the fuel breather pipes correctly in place when you put the tanks on. One of the hardest jobs is the fooking spark plugs, it takes ages to get them out. You can change the oil in about 30 minutes though. The valve clearances are a bit of abugger though as you have to get the shims from your dealer, and they don't part-ex them .
Fuel consumption is anything from 100 miles to 190 mile on a 22 litre tank full, all depends on how you ride but around 150 was about average.
They are abosolutely superb around the bends and even along the straights, as someone else has said they are not as well stuck to the ground as the bmw. One of the other main problems was with the panniers fitted, if you let go of the handlebars it would go into a tank slapper and throw you off.

AS for the depreciation you will loose a lot of money on them i think. I could of got one in the dealers at christmas for £5100, the s model with akras, crash bars, brake lines, panniers and other extras, all with 12,000 miles on them.
20,000 miles on the ktm is high mileage for them if you ask me, i wouldn,t buy one with that mileage on, but i would buy a bmw with that mileage on though.
As for new prices, gear4 at peterbrough will sell youy a new one with akras and panniers for £9200, fitted and remapped.

These are my opinions of an ex ktm owner and hopefully a new 1200gsa owner if one comes along at the right price.

Louis