{"id":61929,"date":"2024-02-20T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=61929"},"modified":"2024-02-20T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:02:04","slug":"austrian-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2024\/02\/austrian-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmonster\u201d of adventure bikes needs space to stretch its legs.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest anomaly about KTM \u2014 at least, the biggest anomaly other than \u201cWhy orange?\u201d \u2014 is how they have built a reputation for having the most outlandishly powerful motors while being built in the most over-policed country in the European arena. Okay, the second-most over-policed.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss police are truly enthusiastic about their jobs and Swiss speeding fines are legendary.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Austria, for all its lush mountains and serpentine roads, is also enthusiastically policed. Cop cars are on constant patrol, the speed limits on secondary roads are particularly restrictive and, frankly, everyone drives like the proverbial little old lady from Pasadena. Actually, little old ladies from Munderfing, where KTM has its factory, drive slower. How that morphed into Team Orange\u2019s \u201cReady to Race\u201d motto I have no idea. But I do know that trying to put a 1290 Adventure S through its paces on public roads in \u00d6sterreich is a little like asking Michael Phelps to do laps in a 10-metre pool: quick second-and-a-half spurts do not capture the absolutely majestic power of either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SURPRISINGLY COMFORTABLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61938 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSC05461-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">On the other hand, I did manage to glean some insight into KTM\u2019s latest super adventurer on my recent half-day test in its spiritual home. And perhaps the biggest \u2014 certainly the most immediately apparent \u2014 surprise was that, contrary to everything I read on ADV forums, the 1290 Adventure S\u2019s seat was quite comfortable. Especially so, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to be sure, seat comfort is a personal judgement. Nonetheless, the Adventure\u2019s perch hit all the right buttons for me. It\u2019s firm without being hard, shaped but still mostly flat and it has no massive angled portion at the front to trap private parts in an excruciating battle between gonads and gas tank. Seriously, the big KTM\u2019s seat is superior to that on the GS or Multistrada and, Lord, what I wouldn\u2019t do to have it on my V-Strom 1000.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that stood out is that KTM has the best man-machine digital interface in the motorcycle biz. Dramatically easier to use than either BMW\u2019s \u2014 with its infernal \u201cmulti-controller\u201d \u2014 or Ducati\u2019s, the KTM digital dashboard is both powerful and intuitive to use.<\/p>\n<p>A simple four-way toggle and \u201cclick\u201d button control where you go and access the information while a simple back button gets you back to the homepage when you screw up. The submenus are logically laid out, sufficiently so that the Adventurer S is the easiest motorcycle to adjust the suspension on the fly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUSPENSION SETTINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, the big KTM has a few new items that I\u2019ve been demanding for years. Along with the standard-issue rear preload setting that can be set up for solo riding and two-up touring, the KTM also has a rider chosen selection. I\u2019d call them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmonster\u201d of adventure bikes needs space to stretch its legs. The biggest anomaly about KTM \u2014 at least, the biggest anomaly other than \u201cWhy orange?\u201d \u2014 is how they have built a reputation for having the most outlandishly powerful motors while being built in the most over-policed country in the European arena. 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