2022 KTM 1290 Super Adventure R | Review
KTM’s top-dog, off-road-ready adventure bike, the 1290 Super Adventure R, gets a range of updates for 2022, including engine/chassis tweaks, updated WP XPLOR suspension, Bridgestone AX41 tires, rally-inspired bodywork, and more.? Photos by Kevin Wing.
Sometimes there is a recognizable moment when you click with a motorcycle. That moment didn?t happen right away on the 2022 KTM 1290 Super Adventure R. It happened after we had already completed two days of testing and photography, burned 18 gallons of premium fuel, and redlined the KTM on Jett Tuning?s dyno.
That moment came on a Saturday, when I was out on a solo ride, winding my way through Los Padres National Forest on State Route 33. The 33 passes within earshot of my house, but it doesn?t get good for another 13 miles, when it starts to slither through a canyon carved by the Ventura River and enters Wheeler Gorge, which is so narrow that three tunnels had to be blasted through the rock to build the road. After climbing out of the gorge and passing a campground, Route 33 curves left in a big sweeper that?s like passing a bright-red neon sign that says GO FOR IT!
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For this test of the KTM 1290 Super Adventure R, we headed to the eastern foothills of California?s Sierra Nevada range. That pointy peak to the left is Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous U.S.
It was a cold, gray morning ? just 43 degrees, according to the KTM?s temperatur...
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