Lust. It’s one of the seven deadly sins and arguably the most lethal. It drives normally mild-mannered adventure bike riders to bust out of the everyday and complete a Jekyll and Hyde persona transformation that leaves family and friends scratching their heads and saying, “Well, I never knew he was quite like that …”
Take our good mate Chris Bostelman as an example. Clean cut, studious, good on the tools and always prepared like the last boy scout when it comes to heading off into the boonies on a big adventure ride. He’s one of those guys you always want on your team. These days he’s the proprietor of The Bike Butler all-service workshop and specialist bike storage centre at Hornsby on Sydney’s north shore.
But get CB out of that manicured environment and get him to drop his guard, and he turns into a dribbling, babbling, starry-eyed fool when you dare to mention the one thing on the face of this earth that he has lusted after forever. It’s KTM’s legendary 950 Super Enduro, and the booming Austrian V-twin dirt bike is a machine he has lusted for since 2007. And we mean,
