first full day on the Rally Raid KTM 690..

This morning around 7am, I left Strand in the Western Cape heading for Ceres. I took the R44, through Stellenbosch over the N1 highway to Wellington. I filled up all my tanks at Wellington, about 13L including the fuel that was in there already. I headed straight for Ceres via the Bain’s Kloof pass, beautiful [...]

… picked up my Rally Raid KTM 690 (Oryx)

I arrived in Cape Town a few days ago. Saturday morning, I went through to KTM Cape Town to drop off the Guts Racing seat foam/cover and the Rally Raid rear aux tank. Yesterday and today, they got the sear re-covered and fitted the aux tank for me. I have to say, I was really [...]

Rally Raid KTM 690 .. South African road trip

The time is almost here … tomorrow night (snow-willing), I will be on a plane heading for South Africa. KTM Cape Town confirmed that Rally Raid is sending my stuff down to Cape Town today, so should be there later this week for them to build and prep the bike before the weekend … very [...]

Will have my KTM 690 Oryx after all …

This morning I had a long chat with Ashley from KTM Cape Town who sounded very upset and disappointed with my previous two posts. I understand that I might have said stuff that upset him, but he also understands my concerns and he admitted that regrettably he failed to manage my exceptions the way he wanted to and apologised for that. He also assured [...]

KTM 690 Oryx saga continues …

Following on from my previous post :  KTM 690 Oryx or Not ? … I have not heard anything from KTM Cape Town since my email to them on Sunday. I have sent them another email late last night and still no reply, so I decided to phone them up. I asked to speak to Ashley [...]

KTM 690 Oryx or Not ?

I have to say, I am getting slightly worried now. About 3 months ago, I paid a R20,000 deposit to KTM Cape Town to build me one of their KTM 690 Oryx bikes so that I can pick it up once I am there on holiday. Since then, the guys at KTM Cape Town asked [...]