Marcel le Moose Fondler

I rode it home...with in the first 100km I had it going 200kmp...the titanium headers pipes turned into this beautiful rainbow of colours instantly before my eyes...that's how it was broken in...lol.

Oh she's a dirty girl...lol. I don't know if I ever mentioned this...but I originally bought and orange one...was waiting patiently for the release of the 950...I skip the first year model 2003 I think..at the time the closest dealer selling them was located in Montreal..about a thousand km away..I made all of the arrangements over the phone ..payed for the pdi the works....when I got to the dealer this black one was sitting in the showcase window right has you entered the door...I fell in love...told them I want the black one...so I ended paying for two pdi...lol.

And it was nothing like the bullshit I went through with the 1290...left me stranded on the side of the road 3 time...all before it reach 5000km ...antifreeze leaking ...had to run that thing like 3 time at the dealer ...even after telling them exactly where it was leaking due to a bad casting of the water pump outlet cover..they decided my fix was good enough for them..fork seal exploding spuing oil all over my brakes...coil connection coming undone...

And your point is ? All they are doing is trying to replicate the sound of a v twin...still doesn't change the fact it's a Chinese built engine in collaboration with ktm....ir has to be one of the ugliest things I've laid my eyes on...it's looks like it's made with a bunch recycled plastic...gone are the quality parts ktms were known for...and they should stop using the catch fraise..' Ready to Race " they should be using ...Ready to breack...

What I ment to say it never left me stranded on the side of the road ...it always got me home..has for the frame cracking...it crack where the engine is bolted to the frame...I don't think I never rode one ride with it without the front wheel being in the air ..I think it was most likely my fault...

It ran pretty well fault free for 100 thousand km...did two infamous water pump seal..has preventive maintenance..one gaz pump..and forks seal just before I sold it....oh ya and I busted the frame...wich was covered by the extended warranty...

Your such a dickhead.lol...I was in my prime in those days...didn't weight more than 175 pounds...

Your starting to be has much of a knobend has Buckster...lol...Ktms V twins are 75 "

I had to look it up...seat height on those were 36 inches..

I loaded these pictures on my FB in 2009...this road trip was actually done in 06 maybe..

Here's a better one Buckster...and I had a gel pad fitted to the seat....who's the short arse now..lol.

Your such a poor observer...my arse is completely sitting across the seat...and still I'm able to plant my left on the ground...can't remember what was the seat height on those...but it certainly wasn't a short arse bike...

A bike that was years ahead of its time...one of my all time favorite bikes that I had the pleasure to own...it's took me has far south has the tip of the Florida keys...never let me down...the thing was bullet proof...

If KTM would pull another production run 950/990...I'd be in line to get one...they completely lost there way...got into this HP wars with larger and larger displacement machines...wich are just to powerful and large to be used has a proper adventure bike...

So what's a few degrees...all I know is the exaust note coming from that dual exaust with akros...was just magic...it sounded like and american v8 muscle car...

I guess we all agree KTM has lost the plot since the days of the 950/990....I see no point of continuing this conversation....it's a shame , I was about to wip out my Tallent has a world famous motorcycle columnist...putting people ashamed from cycle world and folks like are own Huge Anus...

Dishing out has middle weight adventure bike....simply garbage....to be continued...

The boys are going out to play....one of them is getting kinda chunky...by the look of things...

Ya that's what I was thinking of doing....the gull and disgrace of the legacy of the true lc8 v twin is at play...by giving the same designation has those gay ass parallel twins built by a Chinese pop-corn maker company....who are exploding left to right

I feel like ranting a bitt on what KTM has been offering in the recent years in this category of bikes....to be continued.....

Just has and example...keep everything identical has the 04 950 ..give it efi...and a few electronic upgrade removed the restrictions it came with....and it would still be able to challenge the desert X to this day in 2024..

I was looking mostly the specs compared to the old 950...you were just a baby back then Pedro ...so it's normal for you to not know ..just how ahead of its time the 950 was...by many decades...it blew all manufactures out of the water back in those days...and it's still a bike that raise the bar for adventure bikes...

The 04 adventure will be knowed has the bike that sett the standard for middle weight adventure bikes ...and yes ..that's way back in 04...beleive it or not...

What talking about this one...

It's a beautiful bike...I'll give them that much...