KTM rc8 Home yet?

[Bandit12k]

Anyone have this bike home yet?
i was THIIIIIIIS close to putting a downpayment on one back in august... but he couldn't garuntee me White.

http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php...#entry13709081

sorry bout the nsfw on the bottom of the page for the work surfers

[bostongixxer]

I checked it out at the Indy GP. It's a sweet machine. I'm inclined to wait a year to let any bugs get worked out...and then see if I can find a way to afford one.

[akira700]

Anyone have this bike home yet?

sorry bout the nsfw on the bottom of the page for the work surfers

Oh no need to be sorry about that !

[Jonny Rocket]

I checked it out at the Indy GP. It's a sweet machine. I'm inclined to wait a year to let any bugs get worked out...and then see if I can find a way to afford one.

KTM has been developing and testing this bike since 2003, there will be no bugs to work out on this bike.

[ThisBitch]

I want one of these SOOOOOO bad, but I can't justify the price tag, regardless of how awesome the bike is.


I need a sugar daddy

[bfriend]

KTM has been developing and testing this bike since 2003, there will be no bugs to work out on this bike.

Except for the super snatchy throttle that seems to plague all FI KTM's. It's been lambasted pretty badly by the European press for it.

The bike is still hot as hell though.

[medic001918]

Some of the initial reports I read about it also included an incredibly notchy transmission.

No matter how much R&D goes into a product, it's next to impossible to have it perfect the first time around. Real world use subjects products to more than they could ever test for. There will be bugs that need to be worked out.

Shane

[catahoulabuldog]

sat on one last year at a tiny ktm dealer in NC... orange.. way outta my price range but quality quality quality

[jcbell1007]

I need a sugar daddy

Here ya go.

now go get your bike.

[FirstDuc-1098]

rode one at a track day at NJ towards the end of the summer. "Notchy transmission" and "super snatchy throttle", yes but still a he11 of a lot of fun to ride fast!!!

Thou I sure looked funny with my red Ducati leathers on a bright orange bike.

[JRide]

I'd love to throw a a leg over one of those.

[jwm2k3]

There are two on order here at Cycles128, one orange and one black. PM me if you want me to let you know when they are in...

[Pittenger5]

There are two on order here at Cycles128, one orange and one black. PM me if you want me to let you know when they are in...

Hmm, I might hafta "coincidentally" drop the SMC off on a day they're in.

[ducvet]

I also got to ride one at NJ race track (thunderbolt)
I have a ton of time on Ducatis but this was too good not to try.

My impressions are:
tall bike, felt good and stretched out. I could tour on the bike easily.
Nice motor, did not have the super low end of a Aprillia or the top end hit of the 1098/999 Ducati's .

It was a great fun motor though some of this could be down to the mapping, I have dynoed enough bikes to know that what you feel is not always reality, I would be interested in seeing one dynoed against the aprillia and Duc.

My bike did not have a poor gearbox it shifted just fine. It even had a very nice slipper ..... setup. KTM does this with mapping I believe not a slipping clutch, I could bang downshifts as smoothly as anything I have ridden before.

Brakes were good but needed better pads, they were not Ducati srong but I would put money on it being pads. Handling was good to excellent.

wind protection at high speeds was not as good as the Ducatis (1098/999/916) when you get up around 150 mph there is not enough to hide behind. Yes I could be smaller.

My only gripe would be the throttle, the bike was great but the throttle set up on my bike was HORRIBLE!

I asked the tech if they could fix it so I could try a good example and they said it was not that easy. I bet it is. The throttle freeplay was way too loose and when you rolled the throttle you had a crazy amount of freeplay before you actually opened it up , when this happened it pulled hard.
It was very hard to modulate, Given enough time you learned the bike.

That was it, I came home and started looking at KTM's I do not know if I will get one soon But I though it was a great first try.