Your favourite bike for munching the miles?

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Stu has the KTM 990 Adventure S which is super tall as he's lanky too, has a tall screen option, luggage and you can get a lowered seat which is more comfortable than the standard orange plank. He hasn't done loads of miles on it yet as he hasn't had it that long but the previous owner only used it for long treks - 25k of miles to places like Monaco, Tunisia and the like.

These adventure bikes all have a 2k odd premium on top, and hybrid wheels/tyres which I definitely don't want. I don't plan on taking it off road at any point, so seems a bit pointless for me, even if they are nice bikes. As for the KTM orange ... it's awesome! Shut it!!!

[Littlepeahead]

Not sure Stu will ever be taking the KTM off road. Unless you count the car park at McDonald's. He hates cleaning the bike far too much to get it muddy.

[Sir Trev]

What's your budget? Makes quite a difference to the suggestions.

[Fallout]

Let's say it'd have to be absolutely mega to go over £10k, and really I'd be happier with a 2nd hand bike around £6k-£8k. A finance deal will be abusing me in a very dirty fashion.

[Tomor]

My dad had an fjr1300. Absolutely loves it. Come to mine on weds morning and you can have a play.

[Fallout]

Bloody hell. 3 new bikes in 1 day. I am being spoiled! teehehehehehe.

[Pete7]

This is just down the road from you and well within budget. Take it for a spin and see what you think. If I had £4k we wouldn't be having this conversation and I would have a second bike to polish.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...true?logcode=p

[Fallout]

Hah. That's at Bulldog Triumph. I'm there testing the 1050 on Wednesday so I'll take a look.

What about a speed triple they look like a full on hooligans machine.

Big Adventure bikes are what I like for this. I prefer the riding position to 'proper tourers' like the Goldwing, Pan, BMW K-bikes, etc. All day comfy and they lap up the miles. Sports Tourers are only really comfy compared to Sportsbikes. Although, if that's what you're used to (read, already have the muscles for developed) you may find them initially more comfortable, even if that wouldn't be the case after 3 weeks on a Tourer. My F800GS has about 50K on the clock. Some of that has been in the dirt, but a lot has been hacking along motorways at just under three figure speeds, for hours at a time. I have only experienced any sort of cramp on it once and that was on a long ride in sub-zero temperatures, after a weekend trail riding, whilst sick.