Is it KTM's fault? Or is it an indictment on the owner and their lack of a maintenance and cleaning regime? Salted roads are very hard on vehicles.
My BMW r1200gs was not quite as bad but I was shocked after just one winter:Sorry: Ducati's used all year seem to do quite well....but I ain't chancing it.. The Hondas that I have had over many years have been good for winter use...that's why I have gone for a crf250m this time..great price too if you shop around!
Thinking back...! I was really pissed off with the state of my Husqvarna sm610 after only a few months of wet ish riding.. Spokes were rusty as fook along with other bits.. As for the electrics and trying to start the thing...shite..never again.. Wasn't as pissed off as I should have been when it goy nicked
Every surface on the bike in the vid is tarnished, which says to me he ain't cleaning it enough. Or at all. And why the bad rap for Italian bikes? Both the secondhand Ducatis I've owned were mint, flaking engine paint aside, and by far the most corroded bike I've owned was the Honda Blackbird, although that did live in Anglesea for years. In fact come to think of it, I've never really owned a properly rusty bike. Seems to me that thin paint is more of a bugbear to bikers than thin plating.
Worst manufacturer, in my experience, for lack of general build quality and not being able to survive British winters has to be Kawasaki. Thinnest paint known to man, and worst quality alloy... Stand a 550 Zephyr outside in the winter and you could see it disolving in front of your eyes !
