What is a great motorcycle?

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah but it still has one of those quaint, old fashioned, messy chain thingys that needs constant attention - if KTM fitted a shaft drive and improved the looks then they would stand a real chance of competing with the GS, when they do I will take one for a test ride.
 
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah but it still has one of those quaint, old fashioned, messy chain thingys that needs constant attention - if KTM fitted a shaft drive and improved the looks then they would stand a real chance of competing with the GS, when they do I will take one for a test ride.

In case things have changed since you last had one, chains are no longer boiled in a can of Link Life then dripped over your Mother's stove:thumb:rob
 
well Tim thats one hell of a test ride , im betting most test bikes wont be taken to such beautifull places:cool:

at the end of the day the 1190 is an amazing bike but is it 10grand more amazing than the 950 ? ....i think not :beer:
 
If you could take the 950 back in time a few years, would you have taken it to Mongolia instead of the GS?
 
Whilst reading Rambling Online this morning, I came across this.

I was summoned to the village hall to witness this horror film, currently being broadcast on computers throughout the land.

Frankly ... I'm appalled. If I had been rambling with my chocolate Labrador Stinky,, we would have had no means of escape from the onslaught of that noisy smelly motorcycle.
Stinky and I would have been killed or severely injured, and would probably have been left there in agony. As the rider had shown no consideration to the possibility of there being innocent ramblers on his 'track', he would probably not have the decency to phone for help.

We all pay our taxes to build tarmac roads for these abnoxious vehicles to use, in order to be left free to ramble the countryside in peace and quiet, and above-all, in safety.

The laneside berries, which I usually pick to make jam for the local Womens Guild, will now be poisoned by his lethal exhaust fumes.
Emily, my rival for the last 23 years will surely take the jam rosette this year at the guild craft fair.

I have reported this miscreant to the local constable, who says he will do anything within his power to bring this person to justice.

Having investigated we are reliably informed that the 'criminal' is a chap named Timothy Olgra. Probably a foreign chap, given his surname.

Samantha Wright-Cunningham.
 
If you could take the 950 back in time a few years, would you have taken it to Mongolia instead of the GS?


Interesting thought :) but an important element to the route through Mongolia was to see if it could be done on a heavyweight GS because they'd played a significant role in my riding over a decade.

So assuming I'd sorted any reliability issues with a KTM:augie, some of the riding would've been easier but that wasn't the point.

Apart from sand, choice of bike didn't warrant having any more off road ability.
It then comes down to the rider, having a strong bike and riding at an appropriate pace which unfortunately if misjudged on a GS can have disastrous results as Baz found when his bike snapped:D

So for this trip the GS was a great bike:thumb
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seeing that pic again is now going to make me go back a re-read that most superb ride report :jager
 


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