These are the first pictures of the upcoming 800 cc
Enduro bike from KTM. The bike, which will be called the 790 Adventure, is
scheduled to appear later on in 2017, there’s debate as to when the bike is
actually going to go on sale but it is definite that this machine will be a
major part of the 2018 model range.
The spy snapper caught the bike during consumption
testing out on the road. KTM is running the bike over road miles to get
accurate mpg and oil consumption figures and varying speeds and terrain.
The bike gets what looks like 43mm WP forks and
plenty of ground clearance (although the mudguard is low and close to the tyre
which will have to be raised for any sort of real off-roading), braking is
taken care off with two-piston radial Brembo calipers and the rear shock is
mounted off-centre.
The bike gets a new, smaller face with a bracket
fitted to the top that looks as though it will carry a screen – no screen was
fitted to the prototype in our pictures though. The single headlight on the
bike and the rear light small-cluster LEDs are clearly out of the factory’s
parts bin. It’s unlikely that the finished article will look like this –
especially given how every new KTM’s lights recently unveiled at Eicma in Milan
were much more sharply styled and featured lines of LED lights.
There’s a rough-and-ready but not painted tubular
fairing rail that runs around the top end of the forks and goes behind the
plastic shoulder shrouds of the bike. The bike look small and purposeful
overall but pillions are clearly factored into the 800 with a decent pillion
seat and fairly low footrest visible on the prototype.
Hanging from underneath the seat is a bare
seat-release cable that shows that the seat unit (and to a lesser extent, major
components of the subframe architecture) has most likely been taken from a
current bike, if this bike was more finished then the seat release cable would
be routed to the key-lock as on finished motorcycles.
Source : Morebikes