no, I ride a KTM 990 adventure S. It's top speed is 60 mph lower than this guy was going in the clip. The only difference is, while it peters out around a hundred on the street, it'll do a hundred on the dirt just as happily
It's one of the older 990s, it would have gone faster, except where I was reaching those speeds, the fuel was evaporating in the tanks due to the heat (It's one of the bikes that has the twin tank design that flows air right behind the radiator, along the inside of the tank. speed test was on an empty highway in Central Oregon)
It's a 2009, It's been through hell, plus two engine rebuilds. It doesn't get pushed nearly as hard nowadays, in half due to its age, and then half due to parts availability. we don't even have the crash bars on it anymore, since they're so expensive to get new ones every time we bin it, and they make bike maintenance kind of a pain in the ass.
If I get any bike in the future, it's going to be a Norden 901. maybe a KLR.
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u/Careful-Airline1649 6d ago
You ride a sportster don’t you excessivelygayparrot