So, I bought another bike. The war department is very happy about this.
This 2000 KTM 640 Adventure was bought off a fellow out west from the other place. I have owned it for roughly 6 months, waiting on a friend of a friend of a friend kind of deal to get it here in BFK. Well that plan almost fell through as the fellow who was going to race the AHRMA event in Topeka broke his shoulder and wouldnt be coming out here. He had a buddy of his, an old racer, haul it here in his van. After a lengthy chat with Heartland park officials I was allowed past the first gate, but not the second gate to meet this old racer and make the exchange. Once at the second gate, I meet another old racer who turned out to be the race director for the event and he knew the old racer who had my bike back somewhere deep behind gate #2! After chatting about the 300 husky on the rear of my toyhauler and the race we were heading to, the Florence Grand Prix, he volunteered to help. So off he goes into the abyss of gate 2 to find the old racer and my bike. About ten minutes goes by and I see it rolling down under the tunnel coming out of the race pits with two "new to this deal" old guy racers pushing it. I ran down to help them get it up the hill and thank them for their help. Not one of them was the old racer from cali who had hauled it out here.(?)
I was told by the po that it was running down the highway and started leaking coolant. Instead of shutting it off, it got hot and seized the engine. So I am hoping for best case scenario, replace the top end. We will see. It is a little rougher than I had envisioned, but that is ok, Im still happy to have it. I have wanted one of these for awhile and hopefully won't have a small countrys gdp in it when its all said and done...........
Here it is with the rest of my fleet(well most of it).
This 2000 KTM 640 Adventure was bought off a fellow out west from the other place. I have owned it for roughly 6 months, waiting on a friend of a friend of a friend kind of deal to get it here in BFK. Well that plan almost fell through as the fellow who was going to race the AHRMA event in Topeka broke his shoulder and wouldnt be coming out here. He had a buddy of his, an old racer, haul it here in his van. After a lengthy chat with Heartland park officials I was allowed past the first gate, but not the second gate to meet this old racer and make the exchange. Once at the second gate, I meet another old racer who turned out to be the race director for the event and he knew the old racer who had my bike back somewhere deep behind gate #2! After chatting about the 300 husky on the rear of my toyhauler and the race we were heading to, the Florence Grand Prix, he volunteered to help. So off he goes into the abyss of gate 2 to find the old racer and my bike. About ten minutes goes by and I see it rolling down under the tunnel coming out of the race pits with two "new to this deal" old guy racers pushing it. I ran down to help them get it up the hill and thank them for their help. Not one of them was the old racer from cali who had hauled it out here.(?)
I was told by the po that it was running down the highway and started leaking coolant. Instead of shutting it off, it got hot and seized the engine. So I am hoping for best case scenario, replace the top end. We will see. It is a little rougher than I had envisioned, but that is ok, Im still happy to have it. I have wanted one of these for awhile and hopefully won't have a small countrys gdp in it when its all said and done...........
Here it is with the rest of my fleet(well most of it).