Australian Motorcyclist

KTM 700 Adventure

ONE OF MY PET hates is the use of the term ‘nice’ especially when it is used to describe an element of a motorcycle’s character or behaviour. Maybe it’s a word you can apply to puppies or kittens -- until the time their needle-like little teeth break your skin and cause infection. Nothing that gets you soaking wet, overheated from rides in 40C+ temperatures or smelly from oil and fuel spills should ever have the ‘nice’ tag in its description.

And there is nothing in the 790’s personality where ‘nice’ applies. Refined? Yes. Competent? Yes. Great

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