KTM 640 Adventure

[Mat]

This is a bike I always wanted to own ever since it first came out. I got a barely used one just before they stopped making them.

It is a great bike with great character, none of that FI crap

Many of those went around the world and to really strange places, and many still serve as trusty companions for mini adventures in peoples own backyards.

There was a wealth of information back on AdvRider, and I profited immensely from everyone's contributions. Now it's an old timer I guess...

 

[skibum69]

That's a lot of why I'm not leaving ADV any time soon. The 640 crowd there is too important.

 

[SandRdr]

I had a chance to buy a 640adv that had been sitting for years. Took a weekend of wrenching to get it on the road, what a great machine! So well balanced, suspension worked beyond expectations, could not adjust to the vibs and sold it a couple weeks later.
A few yrs later I hosted a couple from Germany that were on their 2nd rtw on a pair of 640adv that were approaching 130k kms.

I wonder why ktm stopped making or at least updating the adv?

 

[Mat]

I had a chance to buy a 640adv that had been sitting for years. Took a weekend of wrenching to get it on the road, what a great machine! So well balanced, suspension worked beyond expectations, could not adjust to the vibs and sold it a couple weeks later.
A few yrs later I hosted a couple from Germany that were on their 2nd rtw on a pair of 640adv that were approaching 130k kms.

I wonder why ktm stopped making or at least updating the adv?

I think my first bike vibrating less than the LC4 will be electric, if mine lives long enough. It still has a ways to go, and as they say, anything can be fixed!

 

[skibum69]

I don't even notice the vibes on mine, it must have been built on a Wednesday. It's still my favourite bike even though it's currently in the basement undergoing some repairs again.

 

[SandRdr]

The ole paint shaker! It's a well earned moniker. I picked up another lc4, this time a lc4e. The bike had less than 1k miles on it. It had been in a wreck but damn if it didn't shake just like the adv.

 

[skibum69]

I rode a 640E in the Rally Mongolia.

 

[PaulyPasquale]

I rode a 640E in the Rally Mongolia.

Looks more like you're pushing than "riding" ;-)

 

[skibum69]

We were lost at that moment in time trying to figure out where we'd gone wrong.

 

[skibum69]

Anyone out there have a starter gear for me?

 

[skibum69]

Come on, does anyone have a 79 tooth starter gear for me?