Quote Originally Posted by moilami View Post
Yeh. I compared ground clearances and seat heights.

Regarding looks of the bikes I say that even though I have adored KTM bikes and especially those old Adventure KTMs, that new model with road racing style plastic fairings.. eeew I would fer sure rather buy that black Xingyue (name lol) XY400-2 than that KTM UFO. http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...ll=1#post13215

KTM UFO - that may be - BUT... ever ridden one oft those 990s? Very addictive I can tell ya. The UFO look is one thing, which doesn't make me switch over from GS boxers... Based on your taste you must be rather in my age-group I guess. One thing we have to get used to: The XT500 times are over. Material has technically improved a lot and we all appreciate quality. Therefore we sometimes need to compromise a bit and get away from the old looks. Not really true because having said that, this is the ride I built recently with my friends in Germany and went to Iceland on it:





Together with my wife:





"Old stuff" still rules...

AW.

(This is my post no. 100 - so it has to be special hahaha)