Katoom 950 Adv bike - how good it really is

JohnnyBoxer · Jan 20, 2012

Shows how well you can really ride a KTM 950 Adv and how much more potent it is than any GS

Awesome ridiing

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(RIP) Tunneruk · Jan 20, 2012

JohnnyBoxer said:
Shows how well you can really ride a KTM 950 Adv and how much more potent it is than any GS

Awesome ridiing

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Yeah but a well ridden GS would have him ............

Actually .......... I doubt it!

Fanum · Jan 20, 2012

JohnnyBoxer said:
and how much more potent it is than any GS

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TOSH

JohnnyBoxer · Jan 20, 2012

Tunneruk said:
Yeah but a well ridden GS would have him ............not even close

Actually .......... I doubt it!

You're right

JohnnyBoxer · Jan 20, 2012

Fanum said:
TOSH

One problem, Bill

Those 900RR's never went on general sale, whereas the Katooms in the vid are pretty normal stock bikes :blast

rockchunk · Jan 20, 2012

not what ewan and charley said after there lwr,,,,couldnt have done it on anything other than the beemer

Timolgra · Jan 20, 2012

You bugger Johnny!

Fanum · Jan 20, 2012

JohnnyBoxer said:
One problem, Bill

Those 900RR's never went on general sale, whereas the Katooms in the vid are pretty normal stock bikes

more potent it is than any GS

I'd argue that the HP2 is a GS, just marketted differently to seperate the adventure touring orientated GS from the off-road HP version, a truer equivalent of the KTM.

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You can even watch dozens of videos of wee-powered airheads doing stuff equally impressive as your original video, no, scrub that, far MORE impressive too.

I concede that an out of the box Katoomer 900 adv with the same pilot is going to be better at some things than an out of the box GS, but a well ridden GS could do that video easily (and no, I couldn't)

JohnnyBoxer · Jan 20, 2012

Timolgra said:
You bugger Johnny!

You can't do those sort of speeds offroad on a 1150GSA :augie

Timolgra · Jan 20, 2012

JohnnyBoxer said:
You can't do those sort of speeds offroad on a 1150GSA

Like comparing a Hummer with a Landrover

JohnnyBoxer · Jan 20, 2012

Timolgra said:
Like comparing a Hummer with a Landrover

Bill knows all about LR's :bounce1

(RIP) Tunneruk · Jan 20, 2012

Timolgra said:
Like comparing a Hummer with a Landrover

Absolutely bang on!

Mav · Jan 20, 2012

What my HP2 thinks of the 950Adv

Timolgra said:
Like comparing a Hummer with a Landrover

I hope you noticed that the Hummers were beaten by Minis in the Dakar

To be fair, I actually think the 950Adv is a great off-road bike

(RIP) Tunneruk · Jan 21, 2012

HP2's are NOT GS's :blast

If you want to use the HP2 as an example of BMW's amazing big bike off road prowess then compare it to the KTM 950 SE.

The needle returns to the start of the song ................

If there's a video of a GS/GSA being ridden in the same vein as the OP's video then I'd love to see it!

And no videos of Simon Pavey riding over some 4' high mounds of mud in a car park somewhere!

JohnnyBoxer · Jan 21, 2012

Tunneruk said:
HP2's are NOT GS's

If you want to use the HP2 as an example of BMW's amazing big bike off road prowess then compare it to the KTM 950 SE.

The needle returns to the start of the song ................

If there's a video of a GS/GSA being ridden in the same vein as the OP's video then I'd love to see it!

And no videos of Simon Pavey riding over some 4' high mounds of mud in a car park somewhere!

+1

Oranges and Apples - a HP2e is not a GS, for a start it weighs 40 kg less at least

Out the crate, that 950Adv is amazing in the vid

Timolgra · Jan 21, 2012

We all know what happens to any GS is deep water

chad · Jan 21, 2012

JohnnyBoxer said:
Shows how well you can really ride a KTM 950 Adv and how much more potent it is than any GS

Awesome ridiing

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having owned both i can confirm the above the KTM is pure animal and will take pretty much anything in its stride leaving you wide eyed and screaming

The GS requires you do things at a more leisurely pace so the smoke from ones pipe does not blow in ones eyes

i loved em both and miss them in equal measure

what you dont know is it was really Tim riding in that Vid :aidan

Timolgra · Jan 21, 2012

"There's no better Dual Sport"..... :augie

Fanum · Jan 21, 2012

JohnnyBoxer · Jan 21, 2012

Fanum said:

Come on Bill, you're losing the argument :blast

That bike has Ohlins front and rear too, even further from a stock bike :augie

- either HP2e or 1200GS

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