To get an honest failure rate, every 790/890 should have its valve cover pulled off and have the cams inspected. How many folks are riding around with compromised cams and don’t know it? It’s not until the first valve adjust at 18k miles that cams are inspected. I think the failure rate would be much higher. In my circle, I know 3 of 6 that had bad cams. The other 3 (including mine) have not had the valve cover off yet. My bike only had 2.5k miles on it.

Onto my 2nd KTM here with now owning the 890 SMT. Cracker of a bike would call it my unicorn. Just minor tweaks and setup as the best sport tourer I've ever owned.

All very nice but you didn't address the elephant in the room what's the Rally worth now.!!! If you want to trade it against something new even Ktm won't touch it...ask me how do I know?

Nearly done 50k on my channel not a problem with my 790r i personally love the bike ...regardless of what service book says I change oil every 5000ks or before a bigger ride nice upload legends

Awesome ride, scenery and footage.

Awesome video, instead of pushing, a strap from footpeg to footpeg is the best way to tow someone. Ive had to tow a few myself works a treat

I know a number of guys who ride 890’s. Not one of them has had an issue.

Like you, my previous bike was a 701 and I share the exact same opinion: my 701 was slightly better in the trails, but waaaay less versatile. I wanted an adventure bike that would be less tireing on long stretches of easier roads, but also capable on trails and the inevitable obstacle you will encounter. From my research the 890 fit the bill and after twoyears of ownership I can attest that the reputation is well founded, this bike is special, its my unicorn and I will keep it a long time.

KTMs are rock solid , anyone who actually owns one would agree ! I have 6 KTMS in all classes from motorcross to dual sport to adventure and have had zero issues ! I have been fortunate to own many bikes of all color and love my KTMs the best by far ! KTM isnt going anywhere , they might restructure , but they will be around for yrs to come. If you look at what they have done to the motorbike industry ,its crazy , they brought back 2 strokes , they made dual sport bikes cool again , and adventures bikes are the best out there , not to mention there street bikes ! lets face it the haters are going to hate , and so many online are keyboard heros that have no clue ! I appreciate your videos and your review ! heres to many more miles on our KTMs ! going to subscribe to your channel , look forward to more of your adventures ! cheers ~

Not a KTM owner, but when looking around a few dealers there was a scary amount of 790/890’s sitting in the workshops with the engines in piece’s, something ain’t right with them

That was an awesome adventure ! I love my 2024 adventure 890R , the best bike in its class !

I wonder where Chris got his "facts" from. The day I was in Springwood ktm they had 3 890s waiting on cams.....

Yeah, nah, selling my Africa twin to buy a ktm790/890 but will go honda transalp now.always wanted a ktm, but I need reliability.

Why are you guys lying about it being 0.2% failure rate when KTM themselves said it is 05%...? Plus with an ongoing court case it came to light (which they were forced by the court) that the failure rate is WAY more. I myself had two engine failures in 14 months, had to buy a used engine that also failed prior to me purchasing it. It had double to triple the amount of services required and still failed. I know of numerous people with 790/890/901s with failures all with more than the required amount of services. Just because it didn't happen to yours doesn't mean it is not happening worldwide. And the fact that you are trying to play it down is a massive slap in the face to each person who had a failure and was mistreated by KTM.

My 790 Ad R failed at 30,900km in Dec 23 with twice the required services fully documented and Motorcycles R Us told me they only fail if they haven't been serviced, simultaneously they refused to allow me to produce my service records, they simply didn't want to even have the conversation. Haven't had one ??? Yeah right. The next KTM dealer was directed to take my bike in by KTM central, 2 weeks they claimed to repair it. 2 weeks turned to 4 weeks, that turned to 3 months, after the bike had been off the road for 6 months they were forced to buy my bike off me under Aussie Consumer Laws. My bike went into their shop and I never laid eyes on it again. After the papers were signed and ownership had officially been changed over they put the brakes on payment, 4 days went past before the office of Fair Trade stepped in ensuring Australian Consumer Law was upheld. Should I mention KTM tried to make my refund conditional upon my signing of an NDA which is a breach of consumer Law???? 2 days after I bought my new bike I crossed paths with 5 older lads at the Rathdowney corner store, 4 out the 5 had their KTM 790/890 Ad R fail, 1 had failed twice. Their treatment was similar to mine, they were extremely angry about their own experiences. Servicing doesn't matter with these, my oil and filters were changed every 5-8k of its life, had a Unifilter and 2 pre filters changed every second ride, it still failed. I'm now aware of 5 other cases on the east coast alone and also the discovery numbers from the court case in Europe have shown it's not 0.2 %.

Como siempre gran video...muy inspirador!!

Excelente video, los Australianos si que sabéis disfrutar de estas divertidísimas máquinas y además con un gran sentido del humor.

Awesome video mate!! Now I don’t think I need to upload my version of our chat! :) Handsome devils too!

Excellent video Phil - Epic Adventure.

Sensational

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I like to hear the engines on technical videos so I can appreciate what they are doing. But on a Vid like this I didn't mind the music at all. In fact you were a bit creative with the music and I quite liked the Sultans at a lower tempo. Very well done. Good vid all round. Cheers.

Chris would do way better if he dropped the height of that Rally suspension...he dabs a huge amount and that is the height of that Rally suspension. I know Phil; I aint your height either.

Great videos. Its on my list to do that road. Soon maybe. You made it look easy. Ken

Great video of a scenic area mate - the drone footage adds an extra element to it eh, cheers

the music wrecked it--- its either a bike video or music video mate

Good trip guys👍 Love that country

At Windorah I would put up a sign entering town saying no fuel just saying

Beatiful Norden!!!! what front fender??? thank`s!!!!!

That was an awesome video and adventure thanks for sharing.

great vid.. great track

That's awesome mate

Great video. Am thinking of doing a similar trip on my Norden 901 but am somewhat worried about the weight in the deep soft sand. I think I might do some test runs in Little Desert and Big Desert first and take it from there. Enjoyed your video and subscribed.

have any issues with teh KTM's on the trip? I am trying to decide between the 890R and Tenere700

Great tracks, great yarns, great footage, thoroughly enjoyed watching Phil, couldn’t ask for more.

I hope you enjoyed that to me load of boring rubbish talk too much

Great video mate. I love that feeling of riding with a group and then being out on your own again. Suchan incredible feeling.

Bloody fantastic vid, very enjoyable. Made even better by a great choice of music which might not sound like a big thing but I’ve turned off a lot because I just can’t stand the music, anyway as a 890 r rider would love to do something like this one day & id better hurry up and as I’m on the wrong side of 60. Again very impressed show!

Empowering - I like that word. I do most of my adventure riding solo and use that word often to describe the feeling and sense of achievement. 👍👍

I did Big Red and an east-west Simpson crossing on my Postie. an 890 should be a doddle.

Probably , but maybe have a chat to KTM first to make sure their Warranty agreement is up to date , because they tend to blame dusty air-cleaners for those camshaft metal fatigue problem.

Nice one 👍 I'm planning to go to Birdsville next year I've never been out there either

Phil'! Very very good viewing here mate.. the riding skills, the filming, the story telling, the editing all first class. Thank you, Adam Riemann would be impressed I reckon.

Dude. Video is Epic. Loved watching it. Excellent edits and music 🎵👌. On my bucket list of rides. My 450 would love those endless dunes 😁 Almost 50 000kms of Adventure riding. Incredible.

Excellent video mate 👍

Did you say 47,000kms mate???

Great vid boys, hey are you from Victoria?

Good Vid. Nice wheelie! Big country.

Nice one. I'm hoping to do a solo crossing on my 890 in a couple of weeks if I the weather is not too hot. It was good seeing your speed going up big red.

good vid shit music