Just out of curiosity who has galfer disks and who has brembos on their 1290
They are different in different brochures
I have galfers on my adv and they are proper shit quality , along with most of the nuts and bolts , but the disks are shocking and impossible to keep clean without a real lot of fooking about after every ride.
If you commute and use the bike every day it isn't going to happen.
Just wondered if anyone else had the same issue.
The bike has done 2000 miles and is garaged and kept pretty clean ( no difference than all my other bikes)
Used acf 50 and never cheap cleaning stuff
Should I consider taking the fooking thing back because of poor quality disks , spoke nipples , nuts bolts.
14 k is a lot of dosh so the fact they've thrown on a lot of cheap shit bits is a bit of shitter
Your thoughts please ?

I live in So Cal and have issues with KTM's plating suppliers. Banjo bolts, bolt heads, heim joints, etc. corroding from the salt air where I ride. I feel your pain.

Hate to say it, but's where you live and the roads you ride on.
You must live in Bick's 'hood.
None of my bikes or cars look like that anymore now that I moved out of the mid-west 'merica rust bucket of Ohio.
Now it's 60 miles inland Oregon.
You can still see an air cooled VW bug running about.
My '93 SABB 900 still looks / runs fresh.
Sorry M8, nobody to blame but the crap you ride in.

Bloody appalling ...... If it were a Chinese import I would expect you pay for what you get but KTM are taking the piss. I'd film it and post it on YouTube right next to their bloody 1290 promos.

Raceteck discs from the good ol' USA!

It's all about LOCATION, LOCATION & LOCATION.

Whilst location may be a factor , I lived here when I had other bikes as well.
This was part of my point as a direct comparison

I dont see the problem. You want sintered pads, which have metal in them.They are going to abrade the surface of your discs, which need a good percentage of ferrous metal in them. Otherwise buy an organic pad (if they still make them) and brake poorly in the dry and not at all in the wet.

Cast Iron race discs will be as rusty as Bic's photo.The floating disc buttons going rusty is bad as these could easily be stainless.

A few options spring to mind:

Moto Gp carbon brakes

Use the bike more so the rust disperses

Give the discs and pads a good coating of AF50 / WD40 / chip pan fat before you park it (you will have lovely shiny discs and zero braking when you next ride)