KTM 990/950 Adv thread

[Waihou Thumper]

its true mark...i flew the dr of the hill, i looked around and there is eddie in full flight...landing was a little awkward, but he got away with it...
its a moment thing, would have been a great photo.
would have been a good meter off air under the PD...

JMJ

It must have landed with a good
And the bike must have felt it too......

[Aslan]

today, while i was waiting for tomorrow to come..
i decided to make a head light protector for my 9fiddy...

so me and the boy went down to the local glass shop and spent $8 on a piece of clear plastic sheet aprox 4mm thick.
i have enough plastic left over for a spare screen.... bonus
i then sat on my little chair and thought up an easy way to make one up.
after looking around the net, and asking the lads on OC i decided on a touratech design.

so the end result a cheap and basic stone guard for my expensive light..

looks good.

JMJ

nice job Joe - you're a resourceful man

[junkmanjoe]

It must have landed with a good
And the bike must have felt it too......

there is 3 dents in the ground...........
1 for the sump.
2 for each cylinder

nothing but air.................

JMJ

[Eddieb]

Pic 1 costs $80.34 Aussie dollars plus shipping
Pic 2 costs ~$20NZ, a bit of time and a few Heinie's

Spot the difference.

[Eddieb]

It must have landed with a good
And the bike must have felt it too......

Did you not feel the 6.5 richter scale quake that day?

Actually it wasn't as bad as I expected, apart from zero technique or skill causing the front came down a little before the back it wasn't as bad as I expected.

[young1]

Pretty much all KTM LC8 owners manual available here with all the goods on general maintenance/operation.

From page 75 of the 2007 990 manual.



Cheers R

Thanks everyone for the help, I think the problem is that I can't the manual!!

[Eddieb]

Had my first garage session with the 950 tonight.

Removed the big black screen
Lubed the chain
Adjusted the handlebars one position forward
Transfered the GPS mount off the PD
Reduced the preload slightly at both ends cause it was a very solid ride and I could feel every tiny bump in the road.

[Squiggles]

Spot the difference.

The corners on teh aussie one are more round

[Waihou Thumper]

Had my first garage session with the 950 tonight.

Removed the big black screen
Lubed the chain
Adjusted the handlebars one position forward
Transfered the GPS mount off the PD
Reduced the preload slightly at both ends cause it was a very solid ride and I could feel every tiny bump in the road.

Fitted training wheels and a step ladder that folds out of the seat compartment...

[Eddieb]

Fitted training wheels and a step ladder that folds out of the seat compartment...

Your not wrong there.
I took it up a short gravel track last night on the way home. Had a bit of a sphincter moment coming round a single lane corner with a big drop off on the outside and merely resting my foot on the brake lever locks it up. I'm so used to being able to jump up and down on the PD rear brake without risk of it locking up.

It also spins up nicely with just a hint of throttle on the gravel

The back end is still way too hard, if I soften that a bit more it might drop it down slightly.

[warewolf]

merely resting my foot on the brake lever locks it up. I'm so used to being able to jump up and down on the PD rear brake without risk of it locking up.

Finesse, boy... finesse!

You're now riding a fine bit of engineering that works like it ought. You don't have to jump on it like a demented gorilla, it will respond to a caress.

[Waihou Thumper]

Finesse, boy... finesse!

You're now riding a fine bit of engineering that works like it ought. You don't have to jump on it like a demented gorilla, it will respond to a caress.

Ja, Ja....Those Bavarian Monsters need a little more positive persuasion..

Now, as for the motorsickle from the Republic of Osterreich, you hit the nail on 'der Kopf' or got it in one....as they say...

[Oscar]

Finesse, boy... finesse!

You're now riding a fine bit of engineering that works like it ought. You don't have to jump on it like a demented gorilla, it will respond to a caress.

I tell what a fine bit of engineering is - genuine KTM crash bars.
I highsided my 950 twice at the FNAR (once from a great height), and the crash bars worked, the only damage was one of the bars was tweaked (soon sorted with a rubber mallet) and der mirror is kaput.

[Waihou Thumper]

I tell what a fine bit of engineering is - genuine KTM crash bars.
I highsided my 950 twice at the FNAR (once from a great height), and the crash bars worked, the only damage was one of the bars was tweaked (soon sorted with a rubber mallet) and der mirror is kaput.

Der Spiegel..... is Kaputt....
That was lucky then, it seems for the extra bit of weight, they can save the price of the $2200 fuel tank (per side). Mirrors, shmirrors, they are expendable...right?
How did you High Side, not once, but twice? Nice story to be told here....I am sure.

[Oscar]

Der Spiegel.....
That was lucky then, it seems for the extra bit of weight, they can save the price of the $2200 fuel tank (per side). Mirrors, shmirrors, they are expendable...right?
How did you High Side, not once, but twice? Nice story to be told here....I am sure.

I actually crashed four times.
But I was only counting the ones that damaged me or the bike.

I was proving to the world what a he-man I was (note the use of the past tense, I have decided after reflection that I don't need to prove anything to anyone but mystupidself), by riding the trail sections of the ride.

The first was when I launched up a rocky slope after a stream crossing and hit a larger rock (i.e. boulder) hiding under the other rocks and was speared off in a perpendicular fashion.

The other was riding down a hill onto a farm track, I found a step/ridge hiding in the long grass, slammed into it with the bottom frame rails, and as a result of the sudden stop was pitched sideways onto the track...

The bike coped somewhat better'n me
Sprung a rib cartilage