Just got back from my first ride of the year! There is still a lot of snow, but the sun came out and the temperature rose to a whopping 4 degrees in the valley so I grabbed my warmest gear and set off up the mountain next to my house. Lots of photos of the KTM Duke and the mountains below!
The Duke has been sitting untouched in my garage for the past 5 months but it fired up perfectly first press of the button.
There was a lot more snow than I was expecting and most of the way up it was melting and running across the road so I took it pretty easy.
Was great to be back on a bike!
You can almost see spring from here!
The roads were so cold that the back stepped out on me a fair few times but it’s pretty easy to deal with on the Duke. Was also quite nice to have ABS. I must be getting old!
SO nice up the top of Rossfeld! All photos taken with the iPhone 5.
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Still snow on the roads? Argh. But amazing pics, as always. I also completed a couple of rides already :)
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yea was pretty sketchy, and the roads were really cold so no chance of warming the tyres to get any lean going. Super nice ride though anyway!
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Are they cashing you up in winter too?
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not sure what that means dude!
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No idea what that means man!
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Sorry: Are they still taking money from you when you want to ride Rossfeld? :p
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Sorry: Are they still taking money from you when you want to ride Rossfeld? :p
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Yea they do. 4 euros. Not too bad.
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Such a lucky man to live in a rad place. I live in SF and its nice pretty much all the time, but those mountains we have nothing like that!
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SF is nice too. Bit too far to tahoe though. My mum lives just north of SF, some pretty ncie roads up there too.
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Amazing riding, great views, great food etc. Headed to tahoe in a few days to go ice climbing, just too far away
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looks good you must have been itching for a ride, thats some beautiful but sketchy conditions!
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man I need to take mine out for a spin soon.
I can’t bring myself to take it out on the cold wet roads and get salt all over it!
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ah you will be fine man, just give it a good jet wash afterwards. Take it easy though, very slippery when you cant warm up the tires!
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Hello, I like a lot both bike and snow. I would like to ask if the grapich of this 690 Duke are available on the market or if they are self made. I am 44 years old and would love to buy a 690 2012. I think it is great. Thanks a lot.
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Hi Lorenzo,
I made the stock GFX too, but these ones I just made made for this bike. I am sure you can find someone to make you some custom GFX if you like as well though.
Cheers, good choice of bike, I love it!-
Hello and thanks for Your answer. Asking to get a Pdf of that GFX would be asking to much? Thanks again
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Yea, sorry man, cant really do that! You could buy the powerparts GFX kit though and scan it to make templates and then make your own one from that.
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Where can I get the Decal set from this bike ?
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Where can I get the Decal set from this bike ? Shit sorry only read previous comments now.
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Yes, great decal set. I would like to have it, too……
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