A tale of 2 factory 660 rally's (thread title change)

Yes that's Channo. 1 year along and same ride, same shed, he traded up.

From talking too him, that's Andy's 03 safari bike.. which I think Adrian had repainted orange/ silver.

I wonder what happened to Coaks 04 safari bike? I've a feeling it was purchased/ owned by Col Ross, for Coak to ride. Then sold via Desert Edge in Alice, to a bloke in Maffra that @Dr AT knows...
I think.
If only these things came with log books.

I'm a good left kicker. Lots of Husky's.

That might be daves 660 , he bought it around 06 , Fozzie rebuilt the motor over a few years and it sat collecting dreams last time I asked.

I'll always regret not catching a pic when all 3 x 660's blasted down my dirt road. I heard them coming but thought they would drop in to say g'day.

All 3 in this pic, Rossi's, Hillys and mine furthest from camera.
All 3 did Wonongatta, and part of Canning together I think Jason said.

Yea, they were heading up for the" Wonnangatta " when they passed my place - from memory it was a 900 km practice day for the canning , nip up into the wonnangatta the fun way, then up to hotham, out east and back. Most mere mortals struggle with 200 km days in those tracks but those guys are off the skill chart.

I saw those three on my first bike trip in 06 or 07 at Birdsville.

Bloody nice bikes.

See? That's why I love this place.
You blokes deliver.

Bikes look fantastic,must of been lucky as the old 660 rfrs I had we're good starters on kick or button.Did find the pita issue with the 690 not transferring fuel between rear -front tanks ,breather filter blocked.

Looks munted rather than blocked... PITA!

Have a good Xmas 2021 Alfons.

Regards the piccys of the KTM's in the sand .Many moons ago I decided to try the whole long distance trip with a large backpack like that.

It did not end well and I had a stiff back for about 6 months....not a good way to lug all your stuff around.

Some perspective on that pic - they were doing a trial run as tour guides, the intention being to run an exclusive adv tour with 1 of the bikes rented by a customer and the other 2 carrying the customers gear / emergency equipment etc . Crossing the Simpson was the warm up , I think they did part of the maddigan then took a look at the canning next.

When Hilly is up on the pegs, his bum is about 0.5 mm off the seat....he makes wattsy look tall. So that " large" backpack might be about 25 litres and you can be certain his gear is as minimalist as possible! The guy was doing adv before adv existed - rode up blue rag 2 up on a bmw krs ....At the time that pic was taken, he'd been working as a tour guide up the cape for a couple of years, so despite being in his late 50's he was more than capable of riding HARD for weeks on end with that back pack!

Dave is normal height, he's in the foreground. Therev must have a good camera to catch him...most pictures he's just a hyperactive blur.

It's funny, at the time I told Hilly he was crazy carrying gear on his back, he just chuckled and said something about " if you can't carry it you don't take it"

I did ask about it, and there theory was that when you are sitting the back pack is resting on the seat and they said most of the time is spent sitting, and having everything in the backpack kept the weight off the bike (as in it wasn't static weight attached to the bike).

As DR At said above it was part of a tour package, the back pack was supplied as part of the cost so it was one they had picked for the purpose.

I still use bike mounted luggage though.

I was trying to remember the website, it was www.ktm660.com or www.660rallye.com or something.

You mean people use rally bikes as adventure tourers?



Thought about something like an OCR on this... but where would I pack the bourbon?

Left rear tank... obviously

Works for me. Another advantage is that no matter how many bikes you have you can use the same backpack.

But what if the colour of the backpack clashes with the bike, or if you have a KTM branded backpack and intend to ride a Suzuki or BMW?