RUST magazine: Rust#7
RUST magazine: We’ve a heartfelt – and revealing – report direct from David Knight on the end of his pro career, and where does he go from here…? We take a long and thorough look at KTM and their mid-capacity adventure bikes, the 640 and the 690, and ask (again) where’s the 690 Adventure? Staying with adventure, Michelin have sprung on us a new rugged adventure tyre – we like the look. And our man in France, Chris Evans, finds life after Dakar is actually rather busy…
RUST magazine: We’ve a heartfelt – and revealing – report direct from David Knight on the end of his pro career, and where does he go from here…? We take a long and thorough look at KTM and their mid-capacity adventure bikes, the 640 and the 690, and ask (again) where’s the 690 Adventure? Staying with adventure, Michelin have sprung on us a new rugged adventure tyre – we like the look. And our man in France, Chris Evans, finds life after Dakar is actually rather busy…
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Adventure<br />
Missing in<br />
Adventure?<br />
Will there be one??<br />
So here’s the crux of the matter. Can we expect KTM to ever<br />
produce a 690 Adventure? Despite asking this question of<br />
them for the last eight years, we asked the guys in Mattighofen<br />
once again to address this conundrum. KTM’s off-road product<br />
manager Jochi Sauer was uncharacteristically quiet on the<br />
subject, but we caught up with KTM’s public relations manager<br />
Thomas Kuttruf and he had this to say. ‘KTM’s current LC4<br />
strategy and model line up is based on two different chassisfuel<br />
tank-airbox platforms. Street (Duke) and Offroad (Enduro-
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