21" front wheel for the Super Tenere.

[JaimeV]

JaimeV:

Very nice bike, however, I was wondering why don't you just buy a real dirt bike and use all your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$ or EUROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS to put gas in the S10 and enjoy the Japanese engineering as it comes in a complete package ? ::008:

Actually I have a dirt bike… and farkled as well…
I’m using my euros a well to put gas. ::001::
I’m enjoying a lot this Japanese engineering but not as it is OEM… too road oriented, as most of the “adventure” bikes build today, more like a SUV than a proper adventure bike. :
But you could be surprised how relative little money I use to modify this ST, I’ve found some companies interested in build some accessories, so they use my bike to develop them and I keep the farkles in exchange…
A friend of mine is looking to change his GSA and he like to have a Super Ténéré like mine, so we make a budget: less than 3.000€ including the skid plate, crash bars, suspensions, exhaust and all the 21” front wheel modifications. Doing all of this still cheaper than a GSA and much better off roader.
The only bike it could make him some doubts is the new KTM1190 but he has lot of worries about reliability, and more being a new model.

An interesting point you have. : If a point is what you wanted to make ::024::..... the answer is; why not !!!. because we can ::009:: . and most of all because we just love to tinker in the shed when we cant go riding. for us who love to tinker , one of the most fun parts of adventure rider is to F%^k about for hours on end in the shed wasting huge amount of time on some tiny mod , then test it on a run somewhere , were, we find other like minded tinkers and stand about procrastinating about our last invention. this is the holy grail of adventure tinkering..... 8)

Agree!! ::008::
I know I’m a bit odd. In my leisure rides I’m using the highways only to connect dirt tracks, I’m really bored in tarmac. So I adapt all my bikes to do off road.
As you say, I enjoy a lot farkling and improving my bikes. Nearly as much as riding them!! ::003::