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Looking at buying 2016 enduro r !
By: darrell.paschali Date: May 22, 2016, 6:32 pm
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Anything i need to worry about and pros and cons would be great
. Also any exsperience with would be great . Thanks
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Re: Looking at buying 2016 enduro r !
By: ShakeWell Date: May 22, 2016, 9:31 pm
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First off, welcome to the forums!
Second, while your question is a bit on the broad side, I’ll
give it a go.
If you ask a dozen different 690 owners you might get a dozen
different answers as to why this is a great bike. The platform
of the bike invites a variety of owners to easily make
significant modifications to suit their needs. So the Pro’s and
Con’s are going to depend on how you’re going to prep the bike
for the riding you plan on doing. Just typing “KTM 690” into
Google images show you the array of options you have before you
with this bike.
I’m a weekend warrior that rides a little pavement to get to the
dirt which consists of mostly fire roads and two-track through
mountains and desert. So while I’ve set the bike up where it
essentially looks like an angry dirt bike with lights, the 690
just chews up the miles to get me to and from the riding areas
making my range of options much greater. I can ride an
Interstate for 40 minutes and get into a whole new mess of
trouble making this bike great, imo, at being a true dual sport;
road to dirt and then back home.
With a few mods*, you can have a bike to commute to work on,
ride trails on the weekends, club race supermoto and pack up for
a month long ride up one of the BDR’s or the TAT. Now granted,
this diversity is going to take a 17” wheel/tire set, navigation
and a few other mods*, but the options are available for doing
pretty much any two wheeled adventure imaginable.
Therein lies my overall point that I feel gets looked over when
discussing this bike. The Enduro seems eager to cover many, many
miles in what ever form you can imagine. Starting off as an
exceptionally capable dual sport, the bonus in which you can do
anything like tossing on a wind screen the size of a VW hood and
change it into a cross continental adventure bike or slap on
some 17's and burn up a slick on a kart track is icing on the
cake.
So short of extreme enduro, trials or jumping 80 foot triples,
this is a great bike and hands down THE best bike for dirt
enthusiasts with room for only one motorcycle in their garage.
(*KTM’s are Ready to Race ™ and I have no idea what I’m talking
about)
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