Rode from Boulder to Estes Park, over Trail Ridge Road to Granby, then north-west to Walden, down to Ft. Collins via Poudre Canyon, then back to Boulder. Just over 300 miles -- my first real day-ride on the new KTM. This thing is a rocket ship... it'll accelerate from 65 to 110 without even trying.


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Here's a gallery of pictures I took along the way.

Installed the KTM bar risers tonight. It's extremely important to torque the nylocks that compress the rubber bumpers inside the tripleclamp to 20Nm! That amount of torque keeps down the vibrations in the bars, and was the difference between a numb right hand and no problems.

I'm a little concerned that the combination of the KTM and Touratech risers will weaken the setup. The KTM risers appear to be very strong and seat securely into the tripleclamp and provide a strong base for the bar clamps. The Touratech risers seem less strong, I guess only time will tell. Hopefully I won't be testing the crash worthiness of this setup.