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Yikes. Have not seen this on my bike.

I definitely wouldn’t call it a hooligan bike but it’s super fun. The low weight does tons to make up for lack of power.

Vp-1, what shop do you work at? I am in LA with a 701 and hunting around for a shop that knows these bikes well.

Nice. Get the coober, dyno and dial it in, and report back so I can see if it’s worth it 😉

johnnylightning’s thread is here

Weight Loss Program

Welcome brother. I am working on it. So far weight wise, I’ve dumped the cat, swapped the oem battery for lithium, and put on the bar end mirrors. I haven’t weighed anything but I would guess that’s in the range of -10 or 12 lbs.

Next week has a holiday in US and I am going to lose the rear hugger for a tail tidy and swap the rear sprocket to…[Read more]

The service manual is ok. Not the most detailed manual and the dvd part is annoying (to me anyway), but it’s better than nothing.

I’ve bought stuff from the shop. Actually I try to buy all my parts from them to support this site. The shop on this site is really just https://www.ktm-parts.com/.

The guy(s?) who run ktm-parts / aomc started this forum (if I remember correctly he owns a svart 401). I’ve talked to him on email, he seems like a good guy.

In any case,…[Read more]

That’s the svart 701 screen?

I got mine from italy via eBay. Shipping was actually quite fast. I can dig up the seller if you want.

Also installed it this week. Wow it’s great, sound and perf are improved.

Looks great, mate. Ceramic coated my LV decat, goes on this wkend…

Looks loud 🙂

How are these performing over time DAP?

If you have a modern tender, you should be able to leave it hooked up all winter.

Looks like the r&g one maybe. Seems overly long/extended to me tbh.

Congrats. Be proud.

Haha nice. What triple is that, and did you just change the top triple?

That paint is bonkers, very cool.

Bigmo has done this mod on his 701. You could pm him or post in his thread in that section if he doesn’t check the 401 forums.