KTM 790 Adventure R
IF YOU’VE RIDDEN a KTM before you’ll know they’re normally a little more ‘hardcore’ or raw than their competition and I was expecting a similar experience when I got hold of the 790 Adventure R. How that all changed when I fired up the 790 and rode off…
Rather than creating that rawness, KTM has produced a premium adventure tourer that rides extremely well to the dirt and on it. They have realised you have to ride on the bitumen to get to the dirt and then once you get to the dirt it needs to behave just like a KTM is supposed to. This can be a hard combo to get right, but they did it. You will read further on in this issue about Ralph’s view on the road-biased 790 Adventure, but I headed up Bells Line of Road out of Sydney and into the
