this is the ktm 790 adventure r and in this video we're going to do a full and thorough
review it retails in the uk at 10 999 pounds and it's got 88 newton meters of torque
and 95 brake horsepower so that's from a 790 and on the road you can really feel that
power
the ktm has a 20 liter fuel tank and the fuel tank literally is all of this
all of this down to here and it's designed to give a as lower center of gravity as possible so
you haven't got too much bulk up top and you get about 67 miles per gallon out of it so the range
on a 20 liter tank is 279 miles or 450 kilometers which is phenomenal it's got a six-speed gearbox
and a power assist clutch which makes a a lighter feel on the clutch lever but when you decelerate
hard and change down off-road it stops that wheel sort of locking up and getting that
chatter you get so it sort of assists in that to make a smoother breaking transition
the service intervals on this is 15 000 miles which is very very good so you could do a lot of
riding in a year to achieve that amount of mileage you also have a quick shifter option on this
which allows for clutchless gear changes which are lightning fast it comes with this very useful rack
at the back and um it's perfect for attaching bits and pieces with bungee cords um you've got lots
of places to clip things to so i really like that you've got rear seat pegs for a rear passenger if
you ever need to take anyone with you the mirrors are very good rearward visibility is very good and
i can see past my shoulders the seat is quite high that's one of the first things you notice
on it but being six foot three i find that just fine um it's 880 millimeters or 34 inches tall
um sitting on the bike it feels kind of short and the handlebars for me i'd like them a little
higher so i would change those personally but it depends on your height and what have you if you're
sort of five foot ten uh to six feet tall it'll probably be perfect anything above six foot
tall i would just say the handlebars would be a bit higher but then you get used to it again if
you've come off a different bike onto something else it always feels a bit different at first
now riding this on the road it's ever so powerful and you can accelerate
absolutely blindingly fast it's a very quick motorcycle so as a road bike
it's wonderful if you only ever used it on the road you'd be very happy with it
but this does have some serious off-road ability you've got uh white power suspension 9.4 inches of
travel front and rear and it's fully adjustable you've got a mono shock at the rear and the
adjustable suspension at the front manually adjustable and off-road it's very good indeed
now cruising on the motorway let's say 70 miles per hour in sixth gear this is doing about 4400
rpm so for long distance riding it's perfectly comfortable if you um wanted an adventure bike for
very long distance riding say through countries or through states in america
through the desert and miles and miles of road use you'd probably be better off with the higher
capacity the 1.2 litre or the 1200 versions because obviously they'll be a little bit more
relaxed on the road but as soon as you get off the road this comes into its own because
i would say this is the benchmark for adventure bikes this is the best off-road adventure bike
money can buy and seriously this is the one to go for if you want your adventure to be more
about the off-road and getting out into the open spaces and coming to see some cows or whatever
you want to do you can get off the beaten track with this bike and it will take you anywhere
the 790 weighs 189 kilograms dry so plus the fuel which is quite light for an adventure bike lots
of adventure bikes are plus 200 kilograms and uh being off-road you don't want weight uh so this
is one of the lightest adventure bikes apart from the smaller ones but many of the smaller
ones are not really uh built for off-road use so much there's so many adventure bikes out there
that are really jumped up road bikes that uh have sort of bigger suspension what have you but
they're not really decent off-road bikes but ktm make the best off-road bikes in the world and this
is as i said before the benchmark of all off-road riding in adventure bikes because nothing comes
close to it you've got the yamaha 10 aries this is better you have got the triumph um what are they
called tigers this eclipses every triumph this is the best off-road adventure bike money can buy
now this has got abs and cornering abs uh which in road mode means that when the bike's lent over in
a corner um it will sort of intervene if the back wheel's slipping if you're braking in a corner and
likewise the traction control um it intervenes just as much as necessary and ever so quickly
so that if you're powering around the corner and the back wheel starts to slip it'll cut in on the
off-road setting now you've got various settings on this motorcycle which we'll go into but on the
off-road setting it allows wheel slippage so think of a speedway rider when they're going around the
corners and the back's sliding it allows you to slip the wheels like that and it allows the front
to come up and wheelie over obstacles whereas in the road mode it won't let the bike wheelie
okay so when you turn the key it says ready to race and you have to wait for that to disappear
before you start anything let's just go through the settings quickly if you press set on the
left handle bar it says ride mode that's what we're interested in today so we press set again
and as you can see we're in the off mode off-road mode and we can scroll up and down
and press select to select the different modes so if i press select i can select rain if i go
up press street i can press set and select the street and the different modes allow for different
engine mapping and abs control and what have you for the different situations you may find
yourself in and on the rally setting that enables you to do more personalized control
if you like and it opens it up to a little bit more power off-road but on the normal off-road
setting which i've been riding in down this farm track here it reduces the power somewhat so that
you're not sort of pulling out 95 brake horsepower which you don't need in many off-road situations
so the ktm's got lots of good protection here if you look underneath you've got the skid plate
which is aluminium and you've got another one here made out of hard plastic and it's
a well protected bike in off-road situations um it's got the hand guards here as well of course
and you've got a bit of a fairing which pushes a little bit of the wind over your head not not
a lot but enough uh you've got something to sort of push the wind over and duck down if you need to
the handlebars uh feel fairly narrow to me personally um i'm just used to slightly wider bars
but they're probably a good compromise for for road riding where you're in between traffic and
what have you and uh for off-road riding but um as i said i'd prefer them a little
bit wider myself but that's just nitpicking the seat on the 790 adventure r is relatively flat
you've got a little bit of a scoop out here but not very much and it steps up slightly
just for the passenger seat but on the whole it's a seat that allows a lot of movement
and i've kind of got a rule of thumb guide to adventure bikes the more scooped out the seat
the worse it's going to be off-road because you need freedom of movement forwards and backwards
to be able to ride properly off-road so if you look at that and obviously the bigger the engine
it's more heavy so the weight's a big factor so with this being 189 kilos and
with the power it's got it makes a very decent off-road bike that's not too heavy
so our verdict on the ktm 790 adventure r it's a phenomenal adventure bike it's amazing on the
road extremely quick and it handles very nicely it's very nimble and you can chuck it around
off-road it's the best in all as i said of all adventure bikes i was going to say best than
its cars it's the best adventure bike off-road uh no doubt so um it's it's the one to go for
if you are serious about going somewhere in the countryside and getting off the beaten track
so uh full marks for the ktm i would definitely recommend it go and buy one
now the ktm comes a standard with the metzeler kuru 3 tyres which are a nice compromised tyre
with enough knobbliness to be good in the wet and slippery stuff but also very good on the road too
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