Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles
 

From customers in the shop, a lot of them have said it is a pain in the rse to adjust the chain, most of them get the dealer to do it! Maybe not so good for lots of high mileage

Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles
 

That is the holy grail, but also potentially a servicing money pit. Might pop in and look at it though .... :)

This may be a stereotype, but I'd suspect the sort of person who can afford a nice new Multistrada is the sort of person who doesn't know a spanner from a cabbage. How hard can it be? At the end of the day it's nuts and bolts and moving stuff around. Maybe it's a faff, but it must be reasonably doable. It's an adventure bike, so it must (you'd hope!) be designed so that someone half way through Africa can adjust their chain without a whole work shop.

Worth asking about if I pop into the Winch store.

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It's really not.
It's an "adventure styled" bike or even just a "motard styled" bike.

Like anything ducati, form was higher up the list of design aims than function.

Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles?
 

Had CBF600 - the 1000 would probably make for a good long distance touring bike but would bore you to suicide.

Had a KTM adventure 950 S (2003, reputedly teh tallest seat height of all the adventures with the s being 50mm taller than the same year non-S).. Really quirky fun looking bike, really easy to fling from side to side for such a big bike, but after the top end buzz of sports bikes it was boring once the torque ran out and you truly were thrashing it much past 110mph, far more so than an sv650.

Had an sv1000, tower of power but sluggish handling and not 'all day' comfy. Read a lot of positive reviews for the v-strom 1000 (same engine albeit tuned down).

Just had an email today inviting me to test ride the 1190 ktm adventure. Brand new: couldn't afford one right now but tempted to go for the test ride after reading they're about 150bhp and many times better than the 950/990 variants.

If it was me, I'd be tempted by a sprint st 1050 - but not the GT. :D

Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles
 

Probably the last thing you would be doing on that bike! There is a Ducati at Alton train station, Snells.

Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles?
 

I fitted a double bubble screen to my sprint and never had a problem on the mway or at speed, they do even taller screens, a barn door of a touring screen.

The 1050 triple engine is a perfect touring motor, tons of torque and smooth.

I'm selling my sprint btw...:)

Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles?
 

KTM are a bunch of losers. They design all their bikes for lanky giants. What about the little people?

Anyway the point of this post is that the KTM is reviewed in Ride this month.

Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles?
 

Talk about plushing it up!

Re: Your favourite bike for munching the miles?
 

Yeah, being my normal exaggerative (feck me, that's an actual word!) self. I'm sure it's doable. Let's go to Winch ducati with some spanners and have a go.

I've seen it. It does look nice. :) I'm gonna sit on one tomorrow at the Triumph garage to see if the ergonomics are different to the GT. Maybe I'll fit on a Sprint. :)

Which one?

1190 adventure. 148bhp :)