Excellent.
Twizzle will be along to guffaw and hee-haw at this like a donkey shortly.
Excellent.
Toddy’s post starts mentioning skill levels so you’re into a different ball game as a skilled off road rider will be good on nearly anything.
I suppose if an average Joe was looking for a middle weight mid range adv style bike then I still think they might consider both.
For an average rider wanting a mid range adventure bike they can do most things on and pick it up easily when the inevitable happens either an FE501 or an EXC500 is the sensible choice
There's six folk in my TRF group who have 701s (or new variant 690's) as their only off road bikes and they do some pretty gnarly stuff on them no problem at all. A good rider will be able to do most stuff in the UK without too many issues. Less experienced folk might struggle and would be better off with something lighter (e.g. 250 or 350).
Toddy’s post starts mentioning skill levels so you’re into a different ball game as a skilled off road rider will be good on nearly anything.
I suppose if an average Joe was looking for a middle weight mid range adv style bike then I still think they might consider both.
But they can’t both be middle weights when one is 45 ish kgs heavier than the other !
Having ridden a similar 650cc class bike for 7 years (xchallenge) on all manner of trails in uk and some gnarley trails, there wasn’t many places you couldn’t take a 650-690 single
I thought hard about a 690/701 last year (we have a KTM road dealer 4 miles away and another dirt KTM dealer 6 mikes away - so spoilt for orange very locally) and decided against it as I’d had a similar bike in the past and on road, a single is a single
I chose a T700 as I wanted a twin this time and one in the 150-200kg range with some decent off-road potential and some better ability on road - for me the T.700 does that
So far, I have taken the T7 on most of the lanes in Yorkshire that I have done on either a KTM 500 or a WR250F
It isn’t too heavy on the lanes I have ridden it and the torquey T700 engine is far more tractable than most similar twins
Looking on YouTube there are some riders that are doing some serious off-road on the T700, equally as gnarley as where you would take a 690
John of Rally Raid has done the 600 mile off-road GWT on a T700 through Dorset/Devon & Cornwall on some fairly extreme single track rocky lanes (ones that Cookie would be familiar with) and the bike did just fine
He’s very familiar with 690/701 as he has ridden 690 since 2008 and developed many parts for 690
He rates the T700 and his view is respected
There isn’t a unicorn bike yet - all are a compromise
Nowt wrong with any of that JB
Which kind of proves that you should just buy the bike you like the most, and can afford, then go ride the feckin thing as much as possible and wherever you can.
Absolutely .
But this thread is in the Husky section for those that might be interested in the new 701s,not to justify why they bought something else instead.
You & only you ....brought the Tenere into this 701 thread in post #5
Nobody else mentioned it....Only YOU
You alone chose to denigrate it in post #5, so I responded
Sometimes you should think before you post
Which was a tic response to your childish post #3, slagging off the 701LR.
Now please go troll elsewhere.You’re getting a tad boring now.
Which was a tic response to your childish post #3, slagging off the 701LR.
Now please go troll elsewhere.You’re getting a tad boring now.
At the end of Q3 2020, only 16 were on UK roads, so it’ll always be rare.
I suppose the 701LR is more of an Adventure Bike though, and the T7 definitely is one.
Andres laughed at me when I suggested the 701 might be considered an adv bike.
Bet he doesn’t laugh at you.
Andres laughed at me when I suggested the 701 might be considered an adv bike.
Bet he doesn’t laugh at you.
Andres laughed at me when I suggested the 701 might be considered an adv bike.
Bet he doesn’t laugh at you.