please let me introduce my self:
i am patman46 (panos is my name) and just few days before i became happy owner of a SD (my07.5).
after 2 years with a fantastic Tuono Factory (which was fully modified with a lot of racing parts such as Akras Evo6, pc3 + electronic shifter, soutter slipper clutch, brembo monoblock calipers, brembo rcs19 brake master cylinder, brembo rcs 16 clutch master cylinder, ermax windscreen etc) I just bought a SD (just with 3.000km) but lot of stuff on it (since the previous owner was a fanatic but he decided to race this year with a R1).
This is not my KTM, since i also owned 2 Adventures (950 & 990) , a KTM Duke 640 Last edition (1998) with which i used to race supermoto in Greece, and a KTM EXC200.
bikes i owned in my motorcycle life:
1988-1990: aprilia AF1 125
1990-1998: aprilia pegaso 600
1990-1993: husky 510 TE
1994: aprila rx125 control data
1998-2000: ktm duke 640 last edition
2002-2004: husky 610 smr
1998-2007: aprila pegaso 650 (tuned to sm)
2004-2005: ktm adventure 950
2006: ktm adventure 990
2007-2008: aprilia sxv 5.5
2007-2008: ktm 200 exc
2007-2009: aprilia tuono factory limited
2009: ktm super duke
as you can see i never had a japanese bike.. and i am very happy for this.
and this because all the above bikes where excellent (fantastic in fact)
my greatest love of all... let me see... perhaps the T-factory...
a bike which reached 143,8hp on dyno, (294 max speed on speedometer... actual 285 on gps), one bike which made me and my gf to travel from athens to budapest in one day (1984km only with one overnight) fast and mostly very confy...
this i believe is the bike SD has to win in my heart... and from the first impressions i think tha SD has some hidden aces in its Akras to show me...
happy to be in SD community
keep riding
patman46
