It's Home......

I'm a rug munching lezzer till Monday. Have done over 600 now, and it gets serviced Monday.

 

Not what I expected to ride away from 1st service, but my thanks go to Premier Bikes for giving me anything at all. Slightly warped Galfer Wave Brake disc, so they replaced the pair, still the same, so looks like its either the wheel face, or just bad luck with discs. They gonna have it sorted in time for Wednesday latest though......

 

I know Tel, cause they never, ever go wrong eh.....

PS. Not KTM brake discs either, bloody optional Galfer !!

 

Is that an 1190 or a 1290 Adv? What do you think of it?

Edit. Didn't look properly. Can see now its a 1090. Go and find a dirt track. That's what those are for.

 

I just had to look as I also didn't know, its a 2018 1090 something or other, and no mate, not really a fan, it's not on my short list of bikes to own if I'm honest...

 

I'm not that gutted to be honest, every new bikes always has a little something at one time or another. They're going to fit another wheel tomorrow to illuminate that and are ordering another pair of discs from Galfer. Fingers crossed.

 

An option, but fitted by ktm, with ktm branding on them, hence why they have no issues under warranty.

 

I expect they only agreed to swap them because they were optional extras. KTMs are notorious for rubbing discs (as to be fair are a number of other manufacturers including Ducati and Aprilia) and on standard bikes they've pretty much given up replacing them under warranty, unless there is severe vibration or pulsing under braking, because they know the new ones will be just as bad. On the standard brake set-up it seems the fault is not with the discs but with the accuracy of the machining on the hubs so that the discs are not running perpendicular to the spindle axis.
Some people have had their wheels trued, others have fitted aftermarket carbon wheels and reported the problem solved.

That's not to say there haven't been warping problems with wavy discs because there certainly have, but generally it seems brake groan is just a fact of life for the time being on a lot of current bikes.

 

If it was the brakes groaning mate, I wouldn't mind but it's an extremely violent vibration from speed and a pulsing at lower speeds. Definitely something you couldn't live with. But they say they are going to sort it, so not overly worried.

 

After 3 new sets of discs plus the ones it came with, and a week in the shop, the bike is now perfect. The wheel was true, it was just a bad batch of Galfer discs, and they are now on back order, so clearly an issue there. As for the bike, all run in now, and dear Lord the thing is addictive, an absolute joy to ride with a weapon of a motor. It's a keeper, that much is certain.

 

For the first time today Jim, I took water, MucOff and ACF 50 to it. Got all the crap off around the sidestand and lower frame where the factory use shit chain lube that sprays all over the place. Put suspension back to all stock settings to give a blank canvass and re-torqued all the triple clamp bolts as one of the bolts was a little loose. Is now absolutely immaculate, with 963 miles on it.... Bikes never quite your own till you've cleaned it.....

 

PS. No taking the piss out the tyres, I'm still getting used to it and it'll go on its ear when I'm good and ready................ GOT IT !!