My KTM 625 SXC Adventure bike build

[SuperTrap]

Hi,

Your bike looks great.

I got a 625 recently ( good thing) but it's too tall for me . It's not too tall to ride it's just getting on the thing that I find difficult. Wondering how the bike performs with the lowering link and also what gearing do you run.

Cheers

[clint640]

Hi,

Your bike looks great.

I got a 625 recently ( good thing) but it's too tall for me . It's not too tall to ride it's just getting on the thing that I find difficult. Wondering how the bike performs with the lowering link and also what gearing do you run.

Cheers

Word on the street is that lowering links screw up your suspension action & are best avoided.

What I would do is look for a tall bugger with a 640 Enduro & swap suspension. The Enduro is about 1" lower & I suspect the forks & shock would swap straight over.

For general adv touring 16/42 works well, swap on a 14T front for more gnarly stuff. It depends on the type of riding you do really.

Cheers
Clint

[Oscar]

Word on the street is that lowering links screw up your suspension action & are best avoided.

What I would do is look for a tall bugger with a 640 Enduro & swap suspension. The Enduro is about 1" lower & I suspect the forks & shock would swap straight over.

For general adv touring 16/42 works well, swap on a 14T front for more gnarly stuff. It depends on the type of riding you do really.

Cheers
Clint

+1

If yer going to use a lowering link you need to change the spring. Even then your chances of matching front and rear ride height correctly are problematic.

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After much angst this awesome bike is for sale Trademe ad here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=514302191

[dino3310]

What ride have ya got lined up next Tim, gonna be hard replacing the handling of the ktm.

[Night Falcon]

gonna be a sweat ride for someone with enough pingers! Good luck with the sale....we will all still respect ya if ya end up with a GS for ya next bike

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Gone to a nice young local lad.... a lot taller than me Enjoy your new Hayden

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to the orange side
2007 & hardly used.
The last one was by far the best bike I've ever owned.
With the benefit of hindsight I should have never sold the first one.
The intention is to do basically the same 'adventure' mods with a couple of changes to counter the height 'issue' for this short ass.

[Night Falcon]

Nice work, looks like a sweet bike

[cynna]

hopefully there is another comfort seat left out there somewhere.....

[Waihou Thumper]

hopefully there is another comfort seat left out there somewhere.....

Hens teeth.. and gold dust...required.

[mattsdakar]

to the orange side
2007 & hardly used.
The last one was by far the best bike I've ever owned.
With the benefit of hindsight I should have never sold the first one.
The intention is to do basically the same 'adventure' mods with a couple of changes to counter the height 'issue' for this short ass.

Congrats Tim, but didn't you sell the last one because you conceded it was to tall for you or have you grown!

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hopefully there is another comfort seat left out there somewhere.....

Nah, the KTM 17 litre tank and comfort seat was one of the mistakes I made last time. From a comfort perspective the comfort seat is great, but the comfort comes from extra foam etc which = extra height. I have had a chat to the folks that did my Transalp seat and will be having the standard seat lowered by them and gold gel inserts fitted in place of some foam - should be lower and comfier I'll get a Safari 17 litre tank which works with the std seat. Cheers, Tim.

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Congrats Tim, but didn't you sell the last one because you conceded it was to tall for you or have you grown!

Grown some bigger balls perhaps A trip to Robert Taylor/KSS Ohlins will sort that out - new shorter progressive springs and reduced suspension travel. I should have had the suspension professionally lowered last time would have saved a lot of grief and $'s Cheers.

[cruza]

Wasn't your old one stolen soon after you sold it? was it ever recovered?