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Created on: 02/22/10 05:29 PM

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KTM 990
02/22/10 5:29 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLYOHb5DG90

Who Leg'Inn bike is what I like. Take the 14 and make it a V-4 Supermoto. The KTM is too expensive for my blood, so I can just have a little entertainment watching instead. Then I sort of got sick to my stomach to thinking these are some big 500cc pistons. But damn if I ever saw my Honda XR500 belch like this bike does. I don't know where to throw this thread being a how-to buy a used or shit, even a new over priced bike like this one.

I heard a new intro had these things blowing up under the bike editors for 2010? I don't know if it was this model in particular? I would beat that moto bike the same way I do the 14. Chicken drift in the water, not all dry and high side. I can't take the body abuse too many more times... Or can I? Na, I'm just fooling myself is all.

It's lucky these guys are just riders, not mechanics. They did not catch an embarrassing clip you can hide if you were keen on the throttle hammering. But this bike is going to hurl the crankcase, EMPTY? I said, empty my rattling rings I can't keep the oil from gaining chamber entry. Either that, or the valves are way wobbly... Puff the Magic Drag Gone is my 10WobbleU40.

Bike kind of wobbles too. A real (((neck shaker))) if you watch it on the highway. Looks like it has that move from traffic, be safe, fast, getaway. This is WOT die like about saving my ass is, ahalfass'd chance at it with the 14 or one a bit lighter with gobs of torque.
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Or, is this more a How-To find/buy a used bike? I will always let the owner ride his bike and I follow. Cold bike is how you walk up to it first thing. Someone warms up an engine, they are hiding something. I learned the hard way. Trust me.

Like the camera car flowing the mosquito bomb on two-wheels, I think I need a second set of eyes that this video is not deceiving me, I see puff. Say I see either a mid muffler gasket with a leak? Or, say it might be the tiny hole they use for condensation buildup after shutdown?

Either way, I have about 6 time frames that either hit the mark or might go past the puff/wobble points to this leaker/shaker. The factories have a fleet they rotate to the bike rags. So, figure this bike has some miles on it. And beat to crap with every skill level taking turns on it.

You might pick up some words, but there is nothing hooligan going on with the bike. Boring parts unless you segway to the times to see the puffs on accel and with a bike exposing how expensive it is to own a bug repellent on wheels, you can recover your purchase is spray make contract with county and spray the neighborhoods come summer time.

Time Points are approximate minutes:

1. 1:33 ~ Puff out the back.
2. 1:43 ~ Hauls the mail past traffic smartly.
3. 2:02 ~ Head Shake at the front wheel.
4. 7:02 ~ Poontang.
5. 7:25 ~ 4 seconds of Bad News till 7:29
6. 7:38 ~ A re-clip of the same puff they should have clipped out!

Buyer Beware!
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Am I seeing things or did you notice it too? Would you buy this bike? And if that crankcase breather is closed loop? Then that looks about right if the pistons are that huge, maybe. But if that is open crankcase vented to atmosphere, then it is a loose intake valve guide(s). Or, rings leaking as in, cannot wipe down some areas that push past the cocked ring angle.



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RE: KTM 990
03/01/10 9:18 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA-57jSpYvU&NR=1&feature=fvwp Take a listen to that engine. And it's not even tuned... I mean crisp pee tuned. You know... Give that velocity stack a urine sample and change the display booth sheets afta afta.

That's a hooligan bike for pooseas. A V-4 14 kind of who leg gains. I'm too old for a drifter bike but I'll take either engine and die having fun trying it.



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RE: KTM 990
03/24/10 10:21 PM

OK, so this morning I hop on the 14, take a ride to a bike dealer and finally got the bug out of me to sit on one. The salesmen is letting one guy test ride a few bikes. I asked to ride something comparable to what was on the floor at a sale price and he was willing to work a deal to get it out of the place.

So, here I am walking around looking at a $72,000 price tag of one bike ready for race. I think someone like, oh say, Mass is money, would be like a day's shopping spree. There was so much zero mile candy in there. I'm just more in a hooligan mood. Here comes the kid back with the bike and now decides to take out another bike. I would have to hand over the license and the liability signature to take a ride so I wait.

I'm now outside with the bike I was about to ride. I walk over to it, lift it off the side stand, go to mine and do the same thing. There is another guy walking around near me, I go, "Hey guy, lift this bike off the stand and then go to my bike and see if you can tell the difference?"

I mean it was so close, now I have this kid confused and here I am thinking I am going to give this kid a clue he starts lifting bikes off the stand like what is this old man talking about? OK, thanks, that is all I wanted to know about that quick ride and back. The old lady goes, "That was quick."


Quick like I was far from home. Bug city more like it on my new Bell. I washed the quick release lens under their restroom sink. The salesman asked where I was going and said I'm going to read up and folded the brochure in my jacket. WOThe hell do I need with a buzzing hooligan bike that is almost as heavy as my 14 now. I did the same thing to the BMW 1000 and yeah it was a touch lighter I make that Beemer even lighter butt ass WOT price?

Buzz my ass hooligan home that far was a stretch. I was running or say buzzing in STOCK central there and the TRANNY TRICK home. The reality set in and there was no way I could get home this fast on any other bike is buzz my ass and numb my arms on some twinny weeny is kiss my assmooth is the move home on the 14.

Excuse my french butt fuck these heavy little buzz bikes. Imagine I remove my cans we weigh up now. WOTheWATT was I thinking buying that wait for how many weeks for parts, against 3 days or less is the 14?!

Now, I'm going to sit back and watch you'all buzz your way to a half a second more, sitting on whatever is the next best thing is ask yur ass after a day's ride how'shits going? Ewwwwwwww, arm pump too??? I guess it's age or I'd be lighting the back up and look ma, no front wheel step is still has the nipples around the tire.

And that was today's entertainment after weeks of wondering do I need another bike when the 14 can do it better without straining the tach needle or dwarfing a heavy twin with just 70lb-ft of limp wrist.



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RE: KTM 990
04/19/10 2:22 PM

So, here I am walking around looking at a $72,000 price tag of one bike ready for race. I think someone like, oh say, Mass is money, would be like a day's shopping spree.

Sure, I'll let you in on my shopping these days.
See, my track only 750 is duplicated by a track only 1000 for her,
my 14 with her R1 and my new truck is duplicated by her new Infiniti... among many others.
And you thought I had it all figured out- I guess I would have more toys
if I didn't have to buy two of each or one more of anything after getting one for me...

Like this- one of my toys next to one of hers

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RE: KTM 990
04/19/10 4:32 PM

Looks Bad Ass, Congrats she's done.

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RE: KTM 990
04/19/10 6:56 PM

Looks Bad Ass, Congrats she's done.


Almost done- will get a dyno tune this week and there are always the "little things" here and there.
I really want to weigh the bike this week too, mostly out of curiosity.

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