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My dream bike is 990. Stupidly snatchy throttle and a real bunch to handle according to a few guy's I've ridden with - don't care!I am what they call an 'all day' rider. So definitely more than 400km a day, depending on the terrain and pace of my group of course.
I am taking another look at older bikes as well. The KTM 950 and 990 were absolute beasts. The 1190 is also a force to be reckoned with and has all the kit you could want for adventure touring.
But the newer 850 gs and tiger 900 are great bikes. And very appealing, considering the price of used adv bikes. The 950/990 owners still sell their bikes for near a 100k.
If you are looking at 2nd hand then that opens up the KTM 1090.
The 1190 is just far too much bike to ever take on the gravel, it really is a road bike closer to a BMW S1000XR.
I regularly ride with a friend on his 1090 and it does absolutely everything my trusty DR650 does in the dirt but then makes me jelly on the highway. Out of the 3 'big' bikes we ride with, GS800 and AT1000, the KTM1090 is the "Premium" that whoops the other for days. My mate easily had pillion for a full trip while enjoying just as much dirt as the rest of us. The bike performed flawlessly.
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