KTM 1050 ADVENTURE

Australian Motorcyclist Issue #35

• BORIS YOUR EDITOR
• FROM THE CAVE BEAR FACED
• NEW BIKE PRICES
• WHAT SAY YOU?
• CLASSIC MORRIS EVER ONWARD WITH LESTER
• MOTORCYCLIST TOURS EXPERIENCE PURE NIRVANA
• ADV TEAR-OUT MAP #20 LET THE RECORDS FALL
• TRAVEL BIKE TOWN
• TOP TOURS & TRAVEL DON’T KNOW WHERE TO GO?
• PUBS OF THE MONTH THREE FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
• TRAVEL FIVE PUNTS
• TAKE IT TO THE STREET
• THE FUTURE VISION ZERO
• NEW BIKES FOR 2016 Special Feature
• PASSING STRANGE
• LAUNCH
• LONG TERMERS
• EVENT
• KTM 1050 ADVENTURE
• ROAD TEST: URAL cT COMBINATION
• DUCATI MULTISTRADA 1200 S DVT
• NEWS
• GRIZZLING
• EDITOR SPEAKS

NOT SO BASIC AS YOU MIGHT THINK WORDS STUART WOODBURY PHOTOS NICK WOOD

Stuart is wearing a Shoei ADV helmet,Held Carese II jacket, Held Sambia gloves, Draggin jeans and Sidi Vertigo boots

A less powerful and rather more basic road-orientated adventure bike from KTM, the 1050 Adventure has been released to tackle the sub $20,000 adventure bike market. There have been some reports accusing it of a lack of power, and that it is too basic to be a proper “adventure” bike. Weird. All I can say is that these people simply can’t have ridden the 1050. Well, possibly they either have rocks in their head and/or their finger stuck up their butt! The 1050 Adventure has loads of power and is well equipped for a sub 20k bike. So there.