Name: The Smallest Adventure – KTM 390 Adventure Review
Uploaded: 2026-02-04T09:39:37.000Z
Duration: 10 min 51 s
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Something light enough to walk on water, light enough to tread on air.

A thumper with enough torque to move earth or enough power to cross it.

Is adventure in your pockets or in your mind?

For once, to watch adv on tv, you'd think it a serious endeavor for the brave of heart and the betterment of mankind.

Not a silly hobby for blowing six figures in six weeks of vacation playing Obi Wan Kenobi.

Small bike, small price tag, small press kit.

One needn't buy the round the world, change the world, whole new world bullshit.

The end okay, the smoke hanging over Vancouver actually drifted from the US Wildfires a couple of days ago.

But it first went offshore over the water before being swept back in and it settled here.

Air quality is listed as being very high.

I'm attempting a solo trek from my office here in Vancouver to my office's lunch truck here in Vancouver.

I'll be taking the long way around, so we better prepare to live on the road a full 12 minutes.

I need music, navigation, telephone, and KTM's tablet.

It's a loading dock in this corner of the world.

Local tradition requires me to jump every ramp.

WP apex suspension can be dialed for impact.

You won't find better cushions options in the entry level market and only a few in the upper level.

And these forks are firm and 43 millimeters thick as on KTM790.

A deadly mix of shattered pavement, Quicksand and jungle.

Many riders have been lost to what is known as the parking lot of death.

These are Continental TKC 70s $200 tires designed in Germany.

Wet, dry, on, road off, these have more grip than most riders have balls.

Will this LED ripped off the 790 with enough luminosity to require a heat sink slash down the center.

Be my headlight at the end of the tunnel.

Yes, But I didn't make it through unscathed.

Ah, I guess I'll have to jerry rig some kind of fix way out here.

I can find an old farmhand to stuff it with straw or something.

Or maybe I can plug it in 30 seconds with a bacon strip.

Dual sport dinks will piss on alloys for being bendy and brittle off road.

My old V Strom 1000 was thrashed on alloys for years and never bent a rim enough to deflate its tire.

The route concludes with the twistiest road in the world.

It's all corners and the 390 is safe to ride.

Its traction control and anti lock brakes constantly measure my lean angle and mitigate my idiotic inputs accordingly.

For in every authentic adventure, people from developing countries will want to ooh and ah and sit all over our European machines.

We have like a million of those things, right?

I guess the Bajaj economy of scale is kind of showing through.

I look back on what this journey has taught me.

Self revelations from the epic lunch break taco run include.

The KTM is equipped to slay any challenger.

As soon as you stand up, hit a bump, land a jump, the pegs pitch your balance forward.

So the motorcycle is trying to throw me over its own front tire.

I have nothing but thin air between my knees to stop that happening.

It feels like riding a sport bike off road.

Now granted, it's meant to be a less serious adventurer, but

if anyone's gonna struggle with pegs this rear set, a front tire this stubby, a ground clearance this shallow, surely it's the less experienced riders.

I mean, even KTM's Pro looks like he can barely avoid flying over the handlebars.

Ergonomically, it's a street bike with adventurous plastic.

Might as well get the 390 Duke for a thousand dollars.

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The Smallest Adventure – KTM 390 Adventure Review

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