KTM 1050 ADVENTURE

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.