KTM 990 Adventure

[Dellis]

Time for a bit of an update; 15,000 miles and I'm still well chuffed however i've had fresh thoughts on the screen it's really noisy in any sort of cross wind. I've tried a taller screen, a lower screen and a screen extender all made things different but no better so I'm back with the original screen.... Rest of the bike just gets and better

The Conti Trail Attacks are impressive; as good in the wet as a Tourance and about the same mileage as I was getting from Tourances on the GS.

Main thing is I'm still happy and will be with the KTM for a while yet.

Dave

 

[birdseye]

Interesting comments. I went from the GS to the Ktm but didnt get on with it. The particular bugbear was the engine and the awful ow speed fuelling in particular. This was about 4 years ago so KTM might well have solved the problem by now - certainly all the mods I was recommended and tried didnt work.

I did think the KTM build quality was better than BMW but then that isnt saying a lot. But it did seem to me that K TM had designed a sports bike engine and were using it detuned in an adventure bike when something much softer at low revs would have been better.

Anyway, Im back on a GS

 

[Time Traveller]

Interesting comments. I went from the GS to the Ktm but didnt get on with it. The particular bugbear was the engine and the awful ow speed fuelling in particular. This was about 4 years ago so KTM might well have solved the problem by now - certainly all the mods I was recommended and tried didnt work.

I did think the KTM build quality was better than BMW but then that isnt saying a lot. But it did seem to me that K TM had designed a sports bike engine and were using it detuned in an adventure bike when something much softer at low revs would have been better.

Anyway, Im back on a GS

I solved a lot of the KTMs low fuel problems by removing the secondary butterflys in the intake - having stalled and dropped it from just pulling away gently four times in the couple of weeks of ownership - I got use to it after that! (and yes I did have it all checked out...but it was "just the nature of the engine" FFS.

The GS on the otherhand has to have the smoothest delivery right across the rev range with no faltering, I would almost swear it had carbs and not FI. For that reason alone I prefer the BMW.

 

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