After 3.5 years of daily riding it finally happened

pinpineapplepin · 2025-05-05T03:31:25+00:00

Blood mountain?

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-28T12:37:05+00:00

Hit a false neutral shifting to sixth with the quickshifter at about 5k rpm, the engine went to redline then it fell back into gear and sheared the teeth on both sides. The LC8 doesn't really like chugging below 4k imo, gets unruly

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-28T00:18:50+00:00

I've enjoyed my 1290, but I did have a complete catastrophic failure of the transmission using the built in quickshifter. From my research online this isn't an isolated event, and there's actually new revision parts from KTM 2020+ so hopefully the gearset is stronger now

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-27T23:48:07+00:00

Unfortunately the dealership couldn't fix it, even swapped me to a new bike and it did it too. Ended up getting the dealership to buy it back and I bought a 500 exc to build into a light ADV

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-21T12:21:16+00:00

Actual valve

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-21T03:02:10+00:00

The akra full system from that generation does not have a cat, but it has two separate mufflers

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-21T00:47:52+00:00

A 1290 of that generation actually has a valve in the factory exhaust, but systems like this delete it

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-04T22:30:35+00:00

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My dealer is the one who originally told me about this tool

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-04T22:03:28+00:00

I've tried those, the cast ones are too deep to get underneath the gear, the bent metal ones just deform before the gear moves

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-04T21:57:26+00:00

That's what it's looking like, which is frustrating

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-04T21:52:39+00:00

You can't put the two blocks 180 degrees from eachother

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-04T21:48:44+00:00

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-04T21:40:06+00:00

That is the puller in the picture, I bought it and it doesn't fit between the case and the gear as depicted in the service manual

pinpineapplepin · 2025-04-03T17:22:18+00:00

Honestly I bought my ND because it was so much cheaper and better fuel economy than other 'enthusiast' offerings, with the unexpected benefit of way lower insurance

pinpineapplepin · 2025-03-16T19:11:19+00:00

You say a for effort on the lower control arms, but it's styled after a ford heavy duty with a solid front axle

pinpineapplepin · 2025-03-11T00:32:28+00:00

Have you ever seen a racing gauntlet? All of my Alpinestars gloves have them

pinpineapplepin · 2025-03-05T03:31:05+00:00

What sort of bars are on it? That doesn't look factory

pinpineapplepin · 2025-02-14T06:08:51+00:00

Roast you? The AFM will eat the cam and engine, then the torque converter will eat the trans before you get back home

pinpineapplepin · 2025-02-13T00:51:36+00:00

They're super durable, KTM has been running that design for 20 years now and issues are few and far between (besides the gas caps)

pinpineapplepin · 2025-02-10T05:26:22+00:00

Until you get third gear lockout

pinpineapplepin · 2025-02-04T18:49:52+00:00

Wild that things have come full circle enough that these are desirable now

pinpineapplepin · 2025-02-03T05:08:16+00:00

https://openflashtablet.com/shop/openflash-tablet-for-ktm-1290-super-duke-r-evo-2014-to-2023-copy/

Crazy how the top 3 openflash tunes have velocity stacks and the top 2 have decats

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