tell me about your 1190
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He's only been in the house half an hour and already he's checking out the 1190 section ....
It's only a matter of time .....
Just feck off !
I am the same, I love my GSA i really do but i keep getting drawn to that orange bastard and i can't afford it and won't make myself afford and know deep down that it isn't the bike for me ( tried one and loved it but the GSA is for me a better bike) it so instead i make do with some rivalry on here
Just feck off !
I am the same, I love my GSA i really do but i keep getting drawn to that orange bastard and i can't afford it and won't make myself afford and know deep down that it isn't the bike for me ( tried one and loved it but the GSA is for me a better bike) it so instead i make do with some rivalry on here
plus they are as ugly as anything not good looking like the 950 or 990
'Naaaaahteeeeeeee ........
Ohh Naaaahteeeeeeeee .......... '
Aahhhh... back safe and sound on the Blue Bell lined lanes of Shandyland
You're not wrong!!!!! Feck this for a game of soldiers;
Well if you took that pic while sat on the bike you're already on the wrong line
Keep right, right, right then 2/3 left for the steps with a slight turn right into a groove as you drop into the river
Davy F
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Words fail me, on this occasion!
Look on the bright side, at least yours is not one of the 300,000 beemers being recalled for over-tightened nuts...
Well if you took that pic while sat on the bike you're already on the wrong line
Keep right, right, right then 2/3 left for the steps with a slight turn right into a groove as you drop into the river
Ohhhhhhh !! Oh I get it now. I thought the correct line was all the way down the left hand side tight to the bank over all the big rocks ....
God I'm so stupid .....
MilkMaid
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My nuts were tight, but not TIGHT. I gave them a twiddling anyway. Thankfully the missus didn't catch me.
MilkMaid
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Unifilter kit successfully installed on my AdvR. Took about an hour and a half with only two small niggles: disconnecting the white electrical connector at the front/bottom of the thank (couldn't get the fecker apart for about 10 minutes) and re-connecting the awkwardly placed breather pipe back onto the airbag lid (took about 10 minutes as well). Other than that, all is good. There was some 'dirt' in the trumpets when I opened her up, but I'm not convinced this was necessarily dust. Some of it might have been, but I am going to say that (as per other threads), it's soot/shite coming back up through the butterflies.
So, my bike is now pretty much as I reckon I want it to be:
- Wings Short (with small baffle insert as I want to remain under the radar if possible).
- Side stand foot extender (can't remember what make and can't be arsed to check for you bunch of feckers)
- Unifiter kit
- Feck off big skid tray (KTM official one)
- Twatatech top box (KTM official one)
- Wings side coolers (my left testicle is very happy about this)
- Heated grips (KTM official)
- Kriega fork seal protectors
There are other things I'd quite like, but they're too expensive for what they are (IMO). For example, headlight protector, spare wheels for knobblies (although with an XR recently added to the fleet these are no longer really needed).
So, my bike is now pretty much as I reckon I want it to be:
- Wings Short (with small baffle insert as I want to remain under the radar if possible).
- Side stand foot extender (can't remember what make and can't be arsed to check for you bunch of feckers)
- Unifiter kit
- Feck off big skid tray (KTM official one)
- Twatatech top box (KTM official one)
- Wings side coolers (my left testicle is very happy about this)
- Heated grips (KTM official)
- Kriega fork seal protectors
There are other things I'd quite like, but they're too expensive for what they are (IMO). For example, headlight protector, spare wheels for knobblies (although with an XR recently added to the fleet these are no longer really needed).
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Do you notice any difference in performance with the Unifilter?
Will it still lift the front at 120+?
Andres
Will it still lift the front at 120+?
Andres
MilkMaid
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Done know yet Andres. Raining here, so The Pig is staying indoors!
Reckon I could still pull a small wheelie with Amanda on the back though!
Reckon I could still pull a small wheelie with Amanda on the back though!
Soooooooo ....
After Cato's punishment beating in Wales, today he's had a deep, deep clean. (This was what he looked like after Wales .. )
I've also managed to get hold of a second hand fairing panel from Ebay. It was in pretty much mint condition, so that has replaced the scuffed one;
Out with the old, and in with the new.
And I unbolted the scuffed crash bars and had them powder coated for £30
So with a gorgeous sunny day, it's shirt off, (bit early for a beer) and clean clean clean.
Remember this Dynax wax film stuff ?? (From a thread way back before Xmas .. )
Back in December I coated every nut and bolt (with a bit of acf too) and of course rode the bike through out the winter.
At first glance, some of the nuts / bolts look a bit tarnished and corroded, but actually, alot of that 'tarnish' is actuallt wax with crap and dirt stuck to it. The wax has done a blinding job of protecting stuff. The pic below is where my thumb nail has cleaned up just one side of an 8mm bolt;
So with a tub of Halfords 'big wipes' (they were excellent) and a few old tooth brushes and finger nails, my nuts soon looked like this;
It's not untill you look really closely, that you can see the fine film of wax that's still there. It's almost like kids crayon and flakes off with yer thumb nail. You can just make it out here on the disc rotor;
So, mneh
that could be good quality component parts, good dynax stuff, or a bit of both. Either way, I'm pretty impressed with the complete lack of corrosion pretty much anywhere.
To be completely impartial, and to tell 'the whole truth and nothing but the truth ..' the only bit of the bike that has really suffered is the rear disc rotor;
The bobbins are absolutely sparkling, and bizarrely the front rotors don't look like this at all - they look pretty mint.
A good comparison of a nut that has been hidden away under the carbon heat shield with absolutely no treatment is the Wings exhaust clamp bolt ; (note, made by Wings and not KTM Nutty ....)
Yuk! That is pretty rusty!
Other parts 9 months into ownership and a winter behind us;
Look at that last one I'm impressed! Again, I remember treating that particular bleed nut thing with ACF and dynax, but even so, that today looks like it's brand new 
So .... I'm impressed with the build quality. It is now time for the obligatory dig at the WC camp (Oh ok ... a dig at Nutty .. !!) and I hereby declare that KTM components are better than BMW ones!
Bloody hell! That's good! A bit of elbow grease and the bike looks pretty much show room condition.
And after all that, as it's such a beautiful early evening, the bike is now back in 'road mode' it's time to take her indoors for a quick pint via the local byways; (screams like a girl FFS ....
)
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Bloody good bike ....
After Cato's punishment beating in Wales, today he's had a deep, deep clean. (This was what he looked like after Wales .. )
I've also managed to get hold of a second hand fairing panel from Ebay. It was in pretty much mint condition, so that has replaced the scuffed one;
Out with the old, and in with the new.
And I unbolted the scuffed crash bars and had them powder coated for £30
So with a gorgeous sunny day, it's shirt off, (bit early for a beer) and clean clean clean.
Remember this Dynax wax film stuff ?? (From a thread way back before Xmas .. )
Back in December I coated every nut and bolt (with a bit of acf too) and of course rode the bike through out the winter.
At first glance, some of the nuts / bolts look a bit tarnished and corroded, but actually, alot of that 'tarnish' is actuallt wax with crap and dirt stuck to it. The wax has done a blinding job of protecting stuff. The pic below is where my thumb nail has cleaned up just one side of an 8mm bolt;
So with a tub of Halfords 'big wipes' (they were excellent) and a few old tooth brushes and finger nails, my nuts soon looked like this;
It's not untill you look really closely, that you can see the fine film of wax that's still there. It's almost like kids crayon and flakes off with yer thumb nail. You can just make it out here on the disc rotor;
So, mneh
that could be good quality component parts, good dynax stuff, or a bit of both. Either way, I'm pretty impressed with the complete lack of corrosion pretty much anywhere.To be completely impartial, and to tell 'the whole truth and nothing but the truth ..' the only bit of the bike that has really suffered is the rear disc rotor;
The bobbins are absolutely sparkling, and bizarrely the front rotors don't look like this at all - they look pretty mint.
A good comparison of a nut that has been hidden away under the carbon heat shield with absolutely no treatment is the Wings exhaust clamp bolt ; (note, made by Wings and not KTM Nutty ....
) Yuk! That is pretty rusty!
Other parts 9 months into ownership and a winter behind us;
Look at that last one
I'm impressed! Again, I remember treating that particular bleed nut thing with ACF and dynax, but even so, that today looks like it's brand new So .... I'm impressed with the build quality. It is now time for the obligatory dig at the WC camp (Oh ok ... a dig at Nutty .. !!) and I hereby declare that KTM components are better than BMW ones!
Bloody hell! That's good! A bit of elbow grease and the bike looks pretty much show room condition.
And after all that, as it's such a beautiful early evening, the bike is now back in 'road mode' it's time to take her indoors for a quick pint via the local byways; (screams like a girl FFS ....
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Bloody good bike ....
It's very nice Giles. Now, about referring to your bike with a male pronoun...... 
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