This video is freaking awesome, makes me even more pumped for my 6days I just put a deposit on, very first enduro bike, first dirt bike since high school. 20 years later lol.
Dude that was a great video! Makes me miss harescrambles AND AZ! Great job editing and story telling. Btw, where was the ride home footage?! 😂 has me wondering if you trucked it home! 😂 agree on the split focus, my MTB/ADV rides are like that too. Will try to get back to AZ this winter, would Be rad to link up For a collab!
Thanks man! Definitely trucked it home, the bike does not have enough range with that small tank to make it back on that section of AZ BDR and my wife and I had to fly to CO for a medical trip for her the next day… she would have been fairly upset if I got stranded in the middle of the desert 😂😂😂 so it wasn’t worth the risk. Yeah man, it all depends, I want to do better at the races so it takes a little of that focus away you know? If I didn’t care about results it would be totally awesome! Yeah for sure! Hit me up on the contact form on SourceADV.com cheers!!
Genuine question here but how often do you need to check the valves on these bikes? Everything i look into seems to be between the 15-30 hour mark. That's the only thing making me consider compromising and getting a crf300L but man how much id prefer to be riding something like this aha
Check them once in the first 5-10 hours, if they are going to move they would have done so then. After that every 100 hours is fine but your brain will say otherwise LOL. If it gets hard to start that’s a good indicator to check them.
great video. I'm just getting back into riding after a 30+ year hiatus. I'm leaning toward adventure riding down into Mexico from San Diego. Having a hard time getting my arms around $10k for a bike that you then have to spend $3 to $4k more building but the bike seems to do it all. What year is yours?
Nice man, that’s awesome. Honestly, I think that’s just where this stuff is at now. The new bike price and aftermarket parts prices jumped so much post COVID. This bike is a 2020, it will be for sale in about a week, but it has a lot of the stock parts back on it. It still has the GET ecu, fmf pipe, nice seat, protection and Taco Moto fuel system. Let me know if you are interested. Hello @ SourceADV.com
Thanks Robbo! Dude, believe it or not that pump and regulator had less than 5 hours on them… I’m wondering if something else in the assembly was failing. I’m going to tear it down soon and see what I can find.
@@SourceADV I’ve seen a few GasGas bike recently with electrical issues in particular the voltage reg shorting out and going up in smoke. This was caused by moisture on the diagnostic plug connector we think. As a precaution if yours has the new red diagnostic connector make sure it’s taped waterproof wise. 👍🏻
Thanks Robbo. But with this bike it is definitely isolated in that particular fuel pump assembly, I’m not sure exactly what yet, but the bike did go back to running perfectly when the tank was swapped that had a totally different fuel pump assembly in it. Am I missing something there you think?
Nice one, good filming and spirited racing :) How do you like that Mosko R80 on the bike? it looks almost too big on such a bike... Is it floppy on bumby rides? You had a Mosko R40 but thats too small for camping?
Thanks man! The 80 is definitely big, no flopping though surprisingly!! I had to use the 80 because of all the things I needed to bring for the racing. I was more worried about the overall weight on the back of that bike. Believe it or not my favorite small luggage system is not the reckless 40, it’s actually the Tusk Excursion system. It held more items than the reckless 40 and was half the price. Reckless 40 and Tusk excursion are both big enough for camping but you better have a tiny kit, specifically a compressed sleeping bag, small sleeping pad and tiny stove. I run the Nemo Dragon 2P tent on the outside of the system because it has its own waterproof bag. Cheers!!
Very nice setup you have there. I’m curious as to the durability of the kickstand. Has it been modified? I note that you mounted the bike horse style which would place a fair amount of stress on the stock kickstand. KTM factory kickstands on the dirt focused models are very lite and quite flragile so I’m keen to know if you have found a solution to this as part of your adventure build. Nice work enjoyed the video!
Good question, no that’s still the stock stand, but I try to right the bike a bit before I get on to get more weight on the tires. I ride trail exponentially more than I adv these days, so I’m not too worried about it for me. The Fastway billet kickstands are definitely far beefier than the stock stands though, hope that helps!
great setting but have you changed the rear spring to ride the bike with full loaded baggage? the standard spring should be good just for medium weight pilot. thanks
I didn’t because this bike is primary function was single track riding without luggage.x You absolutely should get a different spring if you will always have luggage. This bike was totally fine but just riding low in the rewr
Hi, i am just at the beginning of the vid and yet to see the rest. Just wanted to ask about the side bags in the Mosko setup. You are currently showing them with the rolltop straps connected to form a "handle" for each bag. And at the same time connect the straps on each saddle side to sort of hold it together type-of-thing. Actually tried to figure it out what is the reason for that myself for a while. Sorry for the long intro but just to let you know - I think that the saddle straps are meant to tie down each side of the sidebag strap. I tried it myself and found it is a much more efficient way to make it more compact and rigid luggage system as a whole. Please check RTW Paul's insta or RU-vid for reference if my explanation lacks in clarity! Cheers and will keep on watching.
Man I have been really enjoying your videos. I purchased a 500 exc-f this year in hopes of doing just what you have done here. I live in TX and here we have the TORCS race series that I'm hoping to ride to, camp, race and then ride back. As far as your bike setup, anything you would have changed so far? Keep up the good work man. Ill be in AZ for the holidays doing some ridding, maybe ill see ya out there.
Thanks man, glad you are liking it. At this point, no man! It's pretty dialed, just don't leave the exhuast shield on the muffler in a race scenario like I did hahha I ruined my favorite riding pants LOL -- GET ECU from Taco Moto is way better than the Vortex in my experience, the FMF 4.1 RCT with the quiet insert helps low end torque and the XCGear Mako360 is amazing for getting rid of the vibrations Suspension wise, I'm going to try out the Raven MXT fork inserts on my '23 350XCF race bike, and they are supposed to be a little closer to KYB SSS forks than the Lucky's I have on the 500 right now. I think the biggest thing I would do over and over for the PDS bikes is that MXTech National shock... It was such a game changer for the bike, it made it take whoops like a linkage bike. The stock rear shock is weak even with a revalve. My 500 is actually for sale if you want to see the full spec and the National shock is for sale, check it out: flagstaff.craigslist.org/mcy/d/flagstaff-2020-ktm-500-xcf-turn-key/7562922738.html
nice filming spectacular, trail, I am from Costa Rica, riding a lot in the jungles, so this desert stuff is way too exotic and interesting. I hope I can make some day to one of those races.!!
Enjoyed watching you out there on the course !!! It was my first dirt bike race ever Sportsman C class over 60 !! I was also the Guinea pig for a lot of the A/B Hard to C Easy for a few days before the actual race… I will say that once you race / ride Page you definitely want to go back and play some more !!! Awesome stuff man !!! Bob from Cornville
Hey bud I’m sure you have it sorted now but the side straps on the Mosko legs connect to the the clips on the dry bags to pull it down. Not wrap around the leg. Love the set up.
Cheers! The front is not DOT compliant, it was a Bridgestone M59. I actually would have preferred to be on a Goldentyre 216 80/100 for that sand though which is DOT compliant. The rear is a Goldentyre GT333 120 which is one of the best all around rears ever and it happens to be DOT compliant too. Cheers!
@@SourceADV Very cool. I also run M59…but on my 500 exc I run the 216 on front. Looks like we have similar taste I’m running a 22 500 and a 23 250 xc-f Both awesome
Thanks man! I changed the fork and springs for my riding weight (200 LB in shorts) for single track riding initially when I set up the suspension. I did not change it any more for the adventure portion. It was definitely sagging a fair amount in the rear, but not enough for me to care for a one day adventure ride. If it was a permanent adventure bike, a new rear spring would probably be smart.
So damn cool man hitting a section of BDR and then running the race! Loved it! The 500 is one damn capable bike. I have an ADV modded KLX 300 right now, I'm totally down for this once I have the right bike. Probably gonna be the 500, but also thinking about Beta 390. I'm in Phoenix, so I'd probably do an event a little closer than Page, lol. Since I don't care much about my race results, this is right up my alley. Thanks so much for sharing this brother!
Thanks man! I would probably recommend the 350XCF-w if you want to focus on trail more, it will feel a lot lighter when it is not in adventure mode and would be awesome with an exhaust and GET ecu from taco moto. It would be fun to go to the San Manuel race in the AMRA series from Pheonix, that would be a nice little ride and fun race. Cheers!!
So, fuel pumps just fail and KTM hasn’t made a design to fix it? Is there an aftermarket solution? Just seems ridiculous for such an expensive machine.
They have. They completely redesigned the fuel pump system in the ‘23 race bikes and ‘24 enduro bikes. There is a good aftermarket fix too from TacoMoto, they make a much stronger pump and fuel filter that last up to 3000 hours.
Well that’s good that KTM redesigned it. Too soon to tell if it’s actually reliable. $200 for an aftermarket solution isn’t bad but it also shouldn’t be needed on a bike that costs so much. But if that’s the bike you want I’m sure people will find a way to justify it.
Impressive race! I’m too old to go that hard but it looks like a blast. On Dave from MADTV I learned the easy way to always have a fuel pump backup on the KTM’s. They had issues on his London to Sydney ride.
@@SourceADV I forget which site I was looking at for my 1290 SAR but I saw that they were advertising “better” fuel pumps than KTM. Might have been Rottweiler Performance. Worth a look. Cheers!
great journey, interesting to me is the terrain - it is about as far removed as possible from terrain i race here in GB - would be great to race desert like that one day - so weird
It’s really fun man!! I’m originally from the Northeast of USA and the forests are tight there.. it’s really fun to be out in the desert and for the most part you can ride through anything, you don’t really have to stay on trail which is a bit of a mind bender to start haha
@@SourceADV haha i bet it is - sounds like your past is my present, i wish i had rented a bike when i was over there touring the west - i mean, in the desert it's not like anyone can complain if they don't see you right 🙂
Impressive to see these guys slide down a hill or loop and get back at it. A lot of times, that’s the end of someone’s ride and you go home. Solid racing!
@canyouguessmyname15 I might not film it, just because it takes away from my focus on the race. I race A class these days and it’s pretty intense. We’ll see!
