KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE R | A real world review
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2023
- Witness the versatility of the 2023 KTM 1290 Super Adventure R as we explore its capabilities on various terrain from Fukushima mud to single trails and sweeping open tracks made more difficult by our wicked hangovers after going looking for a country music band.
We put the KTM through nearly everything you find on an adventure ride and it reaffirmed that, while the mid-sized are the most outright capable...there is still room in the adventure world for the giants.
THE GEAR THAT GETS US THERE:
Fly Racing Terra Trek
Fly Racing FR5 boots
Arai XD-4 helmet
SP Connect phone mount - Авто та транспорт
A good friend and I bought 2022 and have put on 15,000kms touring two up with our wives. We ride a lot of gravel roads up and down mtn passes. We had 2018 versions before these. We added hard panniers, slip on Arrow mufflers, S version windscreen, many different tires, and believe these are the most versatile motos available.
Love that final monologue! "Happy to be living in the time of the giants"
I have watched a lot of bike reviews and this by far is up there with the best of them. This is so well done! Even people who don't care much for KTMs will watch to the end. Brilliant!
Why did you get all the talent? Funny, unbelievable cinematographer, musician, great rider, hard worker. Jeez you could have left some for the rest of us. Very selfish of you being so talented. Keep up the great work. Love your vids.
Wow, thanks mate! So stoked you enjoy the vids 😃
@@advlife coming to your country from the United States in march 2024 for a 50th birthday present for my wife. Can’t wait to see your beautiful country.
Mate, I really enjoyed this video. Keep 'em coming! Ride safe 🙂
GREAT Vid guys! Just bought a KTM 1290 2023. LOVE IT!!! Insane bike.
Great vid, better cinematography than most, and entertaining and informative.
Cheers mate - was a lot of fun making it 👍🏻
Great review, I ride the 1190s 2013 with about 130,000 on it all maintenance done no problems or failures, thankfully. I ride as much logging roads and 2 track as we find and qjite alot 2 up. 1290R likely next bike and also agree with you shortcummings...windsheild pegs grips etc. 1290R should feel lighter with gas tank config and 21 inch front, also providing better tire choices. Good job from BC Canada
I have been considering selling my adventure ready Norden 901 for a 2023 SAR. I really enjoyed your wonderful video, no sillyness, no bullshit just real life experience and honest opinions. As a photographer I really thought you produced a stellar video with great cinematography, aerial clips and even the music was good. I am interested to know how you found the stock seat for comfort as that is one thing that the Norden has perfected as I can ride long days (with stops) and not worry about my arse feeling numb!! Cheers :)
I bought the Touring screen (std on S), Rally pegs, Bark Buster hand guards, Touratech gps Mount for Garmin XT with lock, DoubleTake mirrors and Motoz RallZ tires when I got the bike. Love it 😎
Great sense of humour Damo
My kinda humour! Makes a good review great.
Enjoyed your video immensely, thank you for making it! Love my 1290, still sore from the last time I had to pick it up on a single track, but it was a great day, also perfectly handles a full day of highway/freeway with luggage and a passenger, or a ride around the twisties with one of my kids if I want it to. It is ridiculously big and heavy, but hilariously fun.
I’m back on a 23’ 890R now but sure miss my 22’ 1290R….be nice to own both as the big motor in intoxicating…I just find the 890r doesn’t limit me as to where I go….life’s quandaries
If you could only stuff the 1290 engine in the 890R chassis while keeping the weight somewhat close to the weight of the 890R
Thanks for this great vid. Really enjoyable watch and great review. I've had my 1290SAR since 2021. I love it for everything from a run down the shop to a run across Europe. It has it all for me, track and road. All I've added is power parts; tall screen (for road), heated grips, frame guards, ergo seat, quick shift, Rally mode, kriega soft luggage and Akrapovic can. I want for nothing more👌
Wow, this is grade A content. Thank you very much for the excellent video and review.
Great video. As a 2019 SAR rider this was a good travelog with good info to consider if I am to upgrade. Great cinematography. Very watchable. Nice job. The livery is not sold on me. I do love the orange and black. But the new colours are growing on me.
Loved the vid, brilliant. I have the 1290 SAR, and rode the ACT Pyrenees last week. The big bike ate up the 900 highway miles from UK to Cap De Creus, Spain start point. 140kph on cruise for hours/days/blur, didnt budge off it. Additions to the bike. 40mm bar risers, tall windscreen AND spoiler. Garmin Zumo XT and mount, good navi set up. Arrow Sonora Titanium can (lighter, better sound, more power). TKC80s for the hoops, absolutely awesome (in the wet she does like to slip around so the more bite the better). Upper crash bars. Bark busters and flick up levers. Stone guard over that pricey headlight. Higher enduro seat as was too cramped on the factory seat. Flick over cheapie mirrors, came in handy. At 6'6'' and 120 kegs, you may of worked out from the list I need the space and size. Go the big Kato! @chenza11- noted on the rims, I have seen them battered before, check👍👍
Thank you so much do that rundown of your 1290! Sounds like you’ve got a great setup 👍🏻
Hi, this KTM is a really great bike. 🙂 Greatings from Spain.
Thanks for the great video yet again, I love your content.😎👍
I’m not as seasoned as most are and I’ve only had my 1290SA-R since January but, I honestly love it the way it is and only really plan on adding the rally mode to the bike and better foot pegs. I will be getting a new windshield and blinker due to a spectacular OFF on my recent 2,700 mille trip which led me through amazing off road sections of Utah.
That said, this bike is very crash worthy in an off roading environment. The crashbars held up very well. Just a minor scratch on the radiator shroud plastics as the bike almost flipped over. The windshield broke, I’m assuming, by my knee or boot as i was ejected over the bars😂. I Dusted off picked the bike up and finished the rest of the trip with no problems, about 1,300 miles.
In all I am very pleased with this bike. I had a Multistrada Enduro Pro and Africa Twin previously, the KTM by far suits my riding style in every way, I will be keeping this one for a long time.
For me as a tall rider at 206 cm height, this machine is a perfect fit.
This is brilliant! Really enjoyed all aspects of this video, and a good wrap up of the 1290 at the end, well done and thank you.
Also loved that is Aussie.
Loved this video.
Awesome video...the serenity 👍😂
Great vid...thank you. As a rabid 990 rider who dreads the day I have to put her to pasture, your review of the 1290 in the bush gives me something to look forward to. Appreciate the effort.
Epic review. I hope to own a 1290 soon.
Good job on making a very informative and funny flick
The bear thing was hilarious. Reminds me of the sudden outbursts of wildlife violence on the JRE podcast. 😂 „The Gnu was f‘ing eaten alive, dude.“
Great video!
You gotta hear the bear guys story! It’s insane 🫣 🐻 Cheers for watching mate 👍🏻
I was like “wait, what?”😂😂😂
you're spot on, it can do everything with only a few compromises mud 🤣 but when you have the right track (or road) then your grin is as wide as a freight train (yes, I own one and done 15,000kms so far and haven't regretted it). And agree with your changes, I've changed the exhaust, seat, footpegs, and screen plus a Rottweiler GPS mount after the first 5000kms and those changes have made it super comfortable for long distance touring.
Awesome drone shots. Cheers from the other side of the world ✌🏽🏍
Great stuff Damo. I really enjoyed your review of the big Kato. 👍
Cheers mate. Let’s catch up when you’re back from your adventure 👍🏻
I had the 1190 Adventure R which was a rocket ship & a joy to ride 'most of the time'! The day we hit some tricky slippy & rutted trails & I had to pick it up @20 times signalled the end of our relationship, especially being a little height challenged at 173cm! But its a great bike if you accept where it excels & ride to your skills (leg reach!), & if you plan to hit the tricky stuff regularly keep up your gym membership. 😆 Nice video 👍
Put on a Puig wind deflector to the R screen and it sorts the wind noise beautifully, works for me at 6"3. Other mods Akrapovic exhaust, Black Dog bash plate & side stand larger foot, Krieger soft luggage, Motoz Rallz, heated grips/seat, Rag Guard radiator guard & fold up levers, rally pegs.
Great video and I really appreciated the banter.
Stunning landcapes and terrain for a big adv tourer, fantastic video
I Loved all of this, well done
1290 R is an amazing machine. Not as refined as someone other big Bikes. But it's doesn't pretend to be. It's purpose built. That purpose is to dominate anything in it's way as long as you can hold on.
I had a 2016 GS/A and the KTM is just as refined and so much better off road it's not a contest.
Great video thx. I added heated grips, rally seat, rally foot pegs , Arrow slip on and gps mount to my 2023. All a must and made a difference. Thx Steve South Africa
Nice! I would love to try one with that Rally seat 👍🏻
no parts added yet apart from quad lock. although coming is rally pack with hhc and screen extension, and axp plastic bash plate and custom centre stand strap to get the annoying sound out on rough trails. ps a sw motech stand foot.
Man i love his sense of humor lmao
Just found your channel. Great video can’t wait to see more of them.
Great video. Good combination of review and adventure ;-)
Epic ❤
Remove the rear foot rests, I wear a size 14… install after market exhaust with cat delete, and re map….
What an absolutely awesome video, thank for making this one. This bike just continues to amaze me also, its way more capable than many a man.
I had a recent trip through Morocco on my 21 SAR, the front rims are made of cheese so I bought a set of Haan wheels with Excel rims, I fitted a much chunkier bash plate from SW Motech and modified it to use the stock crash bars which i think do a great job of protecting the bike and not bending the frame at the mounting locations. I put a Touratech Comfort 1 piece seat on cause the Rally Seat looks hideous and pushes you onto the tank and for HWY dead uncomfortable. I put the PP soft luggage bars on the rear and fitted a Perun rear plate with Kriega hook points and Givi top Box mounts. I put a HexCan in the system and run heated gear and a set of fog lights up front from Denali on some KTM mounts. I use a Touratech GPS mount with their cradle and an XT2. Mitas Rally E13 up front and a Motoz ADV rear. I upped the spring rates to carry luggage and finally some Rally footpegs cause on my 690 rally replica they were just some comfortable.
Nice video. I have the 1290R and have done pretty much what you said, I have rally pegs, flat seat, full handguards, heated grips and Akrapovic end can. I have the touring screen, racks and boxes for road use and kriega bags for off road. I bought a second set of wheels and tyres for off road and fitted the extra, upper crash bars because I'm a coward. The result is a very versatile bike that if you drop it on your own you're farked 😂
I recently got a tekken 300, im in love with crossover and adventure bikes, i was a speed biker but i switched loved the offroad feeling and that i can go anywhere, im looking at this as my next one, i was between this and the gs1250 but i like this more i love huge bikes im a huge man, 193cm 115kg so i need a big one
I used to live at Girvan and rode all over those trails on my KTM 640 Adventure and 250 EXC. A great place to properly test a bike offroad
Sooo many trails! And that crazy house on the hill 😂
I put the ergo confort seats, for me it made a big difference. SC Project exhaust (really nice sound) Pivot pegs, Rox pivoting bar risers allowing me to find the perfect position for me and other little things
Thanks WOW THAT'S AWESOME 😎
Excellent review! Love this bike, it seems to check all the boxes. Wonder what 2024 will bring?
Very entertaining
You should become a Highway patrolman.. we need those bloke to lighten up
💪👍👍
That was the all-time classic to a lot of situations. "I think we're fuc..." 😂😂
He read the situation well ha ha!
That was one of the best vids ever.funny, technical, great sound and grest country views.
I have a 2020 1290 sar
I would choose a different bike. Love my bike but if you arent comfortable spending big money on constantly fixing it i would stay away
If i was to do it over. Desrert x gsa 1250 or triumph 1200
Great video ! I have one question - what song plays in the background at 10:40 mins ? (the country song ) - thanks guys ! ;)
Great video. I'm looking at 1290 SAR, Africa Twin or maybe a used GSA. What are your thoughts on the Africa Twin, after having ridden the 1290 SAR? Still happy with the AT?
I love my 2018 1290 SA/R. It performed excellently on multiple difficult BDR sections and is super fun on road as well. It could use about a 15% lower first gear and about half a gallon more fuel, but those complaints are nit picking.
Fuck Damo you make me laugh.
Fuk a shima mud. Wow that’s so you.
Time of the giants indeed. Such a huge behemoth of a bike. Riding it well. It’s just so capable for a big fat Kato
Adventure touring no better bike in my opinion. Adventure riding. Think I will stick to my 890 Rally.
Every time I watch your vids you make me laugh and just want to go out a ride this big beautiful brown land.
Thanks mate love your vids.
1290superduke...try pasang miniwinch sbb ada tempat yg terpaksa winch..motor berat
The screen from the 1290 S bolts straight on and is a couple of inches taller than the R one. I swapped them after the first week
Only few is any can match".😅Well,that tenere 700 did the same thing,if not better for cheap too.😅
That bear video crazy 😂
A watched a bit of it
Such an insane story! 🫣
I moved from the 1190Adv R to this 1290 SAR and absolutely love it. Put the Wings exhaust and heated grips, some bigger foot pegs.
What are your thoughts on the Wings exhaust?
@@advlife really happy with it. Considerably lighter than stock I looked for my notes on just how much lighter I cannot find them. Around town I leave the db killer in. When I go Offroad I take it out. Sound is good with it in amazing with it out. Best bang for buck on the market in my opinion.
@bigdavetalks you gotta check this out bud
That power figure (couple of horse power less but negligible) ,21 " front wheel, electronic suspension, refinement and quality, shaft drive - tiger 1200 rally pro - now nothing like it in the market
... so what happened to the bear guy ... ??🤔 ... 🤣
Man…it’s on UA-cam 🫣🤮
Did you say Vindaloo?
How does it compare to your africa twin A S?
6:30 😂
I choice engine 150cc if offroad and touring
Think its 245-250kg slighly lighter then the erlier model.
BMW sideCAR ☆☆☆☆
Them fires in the hills didn’t look to good as for the bike “ awesome “ 🏍️💨💨
2022 redesign, you have to pay extra for the useful tech, and they still don't give you Apple Carplay??!!??
George Foreman and Meatloaf 🤣🤣🤣🤣
all good but let be honest, power of 1090R would be enough for everyday use on ad off-road. not to mention new KTMs adv bikes are ugly as hell. I miss 1090...
The 1090 is a great looking bike. The 1290 is better looking. No one has any problem with more power being available for every day use. Because some days aren't every day.
Yea 1090R all day..
Always keep mine..
too expensive and too big for what I do. I had it for a year and exchanged for 890adv r with super moto wheels.
That's a whole lotta NOPE
It was a whole lotta pressure washing the next day 😂
@@advlife hahaha ohhhh that's right, you had to give it back!! Oops 😬
The gearbox and quick shifter are fantastic and so are the gear ratios but:The bike is heavy when dropped and you don't want to drop it in water.Stripping the bike to get to the motor is a nightmare.Just to look at the oil level requires you to get under the bike.The rims are made of butter.Rather buy something else.Thanks
Not for offroad use!
Safest bet is to always ride with a Japanese made motorcycle for when the KTM shits itself.
blah blah blah
@@daveo9844 typical response