I have the same bike and I love it. For long rides through the desert it suits me very well. Thank you for sharing all of personal modifications you have made to yours it was informative.
Hello Bibo! Again thanks a lot for sharing this information with us. Still it is not easy to find a base bike for long travelling and to setup it up without changing too much. "Weight is everything" - my motto on mountainbikes. As you mention this is the same with motorbikes for that purpose. The weight difference between EX and and "regular edition" is considerably. Not sure if it is possible to setup EX - version for street use. But the seat height - at least for me - points urgently to the "regular edition" version which can be ordered with 910mm height. I would feel even more safe with lower height. Unfortunately both version are not for use with sozius. For 2025 KTM will release a new "enduro r" with 390ccm besides updated models "enduro r 690". The weight will be very interesting to check. Ciao salve
@freedomandbike Firstly, forget about the EX. It's competition only, limited number, much more expensive and a more delicate engine not suited for long traveling. The Standard version has a well tested, street derived engine. Perhaps the new KTM 390 (Adventure R and/or Enduro) could be a suitable platform, but I highly doubt in terms of weight.
@PKAWA Two very different bikes. It depends on your use. The EX is in limited number and competition only. The 800 Rally is more all round, like an "adventure" bike.
I really want one. I am waiting for some long term reviews from you regarding services etc. And also how it holds up after you put it through some long distance traveling stuff I am hyped :)
For your tools, maybe a plastic rain pipe that you mount in the left space of the skid plate or in the front of the skid plate behind the rear wheel would help you carry the tools. It's cheap, light, tough and absolutely waterproof
Yes, thank you. I'm aware of the mod. Nowadays, because of mouse + air, I need to carry much less tools which are extremely light and concentrated. It all fits in a small bag 20x15cm.
@argentum_on_glass There are many reports that the OEM battery has been having some issues. I mounted an excellent EarthX ETX12A to avoid any problem ☺️.
Is this a wide seat from UncleWang? Do you like it? Wouldn't it be better if the wide part went all the way to the end of the seat? Have you looked at the wide seats from SeatConcept?
Yes, it’s by Uncle Wang. Having the seat wide till the end is more esthetic than practical. You don't sit at the very end and for me it's usually covered by a bag. The Seatconcept option I'm sure it's excellent, although pricier.
hola!! has tenido algun problema con ella? estoy mirando si comprarme una. me da miedo que le falte potencia en bajas revoluciones para las dunas y areas mas de enduro. y tambien, hay alguna configuracion de centralita + tubo + filtro que gane mas potencia que la que te ofrecen en el concesionario al comprarla? muchas gracias. :)
@marcosantonguzmandelazaro8514 Hay que recordar que esta es una moto de rally, no de enduro, por eso le gusta ir rápido, a altas revoluciones. El mío tiene corona de 52 dientes, filtro abierto, ECU y silenciador versión profesional. Aparte de estos cambios, la única solución para bajas revoluciones es instalar una ecu Coober.
@@biboandagape Fine! I am also a little "older" and plan to make long trips in the future. Therefore I am very interested in your information. Not only in technical information but in planning stuff, too.
Hi How are you planing to handle the 4000km valve checks on the motor? On the road that is a lot. Thanks for the video i will use your idea of heat protection of the right tank. Cheers from switzerland Ruediger
I think this is more of a political question than a technical and objective comment. I fully understand your concern and actually this is exactly what is holding me off from buying one. However, in this case I would also have to stop riding KTM. Not all of their stuff comes from Austria. Shame on them.
@@TR850 Agreed...KTM and its associated brands should cease production in China. Same is true for all western companies who manufacture goods in China for export. They need to repatriate production in the 'West" or we need to help them overcome their greed and do the right thing by avoiding those specific products so they can see that we do not support the CCP's efforts to cause trouble for the world's democracies. I am not sure where you are from, but here in the US, so many of our small and mid-size towns have been hollowed out by shipping jobs to China. So sad and so short-sighted. I am not a big fan of tariffs, but I think it is inevitable that tariffs will be needed to force people to do the right thing. I just can't figure out why we in the "West" do not see the danger in supporting the CRINK's (China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea). While I'm tirading, I think India as a country needs to make a decision as to which side they are on. They cannot continue to support Russia's tragic war in Ukraine by buying their oil yet suffer no consequences for their actions. They either need to commit to democracy or else we need to turn our back on the country. I'm sorry to say that, but the time is now for the world to decide whether autocracy or democracy will win out. I for one sure hope it is democracy that comes out on top, though this is definitely not a foregone conclusion. I have heard that some of our politicians want to apply tariffs to Chinese imports to encourage them to manufacture in our countries. I say NO! We absolutely do not want more Chinese infiltration into our societies. This is not a game...this is serious! Thanks for your thoughtful comment, @TR850. Ride safe, my friend, and thanks for riding smart.
@@TR850 Now is the Time to Let the World’s Autocracies Whither -Derek Thomas ON FAILED EXPERIMENTS Once a government grows in power beyond its necessary duty to redress the moral defects of an imperfect humanity and instead becomes a baton to control its subjects, autocracy is established. If allowed to flourish, it becomes impossible to extricate without great suffering and bloodshed. While under normal circumstances, the choice of a people to suffer under the tyranny of an authoritarian government should be just that, their choice, such is the state of world affairs and such is the inevitability that autocracies cannot contain tyranny within their borders, it is no longer possible for free people to peacefully coexist with them. The once-held notion that building up a thriving middle class within autocracies would eventually produce a just society has failed every place and in every way it has been attempted. The tragedy of these failed experiments has been that it has accomplished nothing more than feeding and growing the cancer of authoritarianism to metastasis. Its extraction has and will become ever more dangerous, yet ever more necessary. The opposite has also been tried with similar results. Sanctioning and closing off such societies from the benefits and efficiencies of reciprocal relations and trade has proven equally ineffective. In this case, however, their economy has been unable to grow to unmanageable proportions. The cancer persists but does not metastasize. Such countries become dependent on other autocracies and represent an undesirable burden on them. Without support, these travesties sadly either persist or mercifully collapse. ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION The development of weapons so destructive as to render their use unlikely except in the face of existential threat has had the effect of further enhancing the intractability of autocracies. All large wars are now proxy wars in which the holders of such weapons need not worry about the peace and security of the homeland. Autocracies holding such weapons cannot and should not be forcibly set free by outsiders. That does not mean that we cannot turn our backs on them. History has proven the durability and success of free nations and the weakness and failure of autocracies. The time is now to put an end to the autocracies’ practice of feeding off the success of free countries to enrich and empower themselves politically, financially and technologically. ON PEACE AND SECURITY Authoritarian regimes work tirelessly to convince their weak-minded subjects that guaranteeing peace and security is the most important role of government. Then they proclaim that their people have been provided with what they most covet. When anything happens that threatens peace and security, the authoritarian claims that his subjects must sacrifice their freedoms further in the name of peace and security. Without freedom as a bulwark against tyranny, a budding autocracy becomes a disgrace of human nature, an absolute government, an anathema to freedom. The autocracy at this point has reached critical mass, just as a nuclear weapon does, and nothing can stop the inevitable chain reaction. Avarice grows such governments in size and power. And while the proclamations of the Tsar are made more palatable by his appointed government, they are not more just. At this point the people are gentled, and fear moves freedom out of reach. In the Tsar lies many of the powers of GOD. The distinction between good and evil and the means to happiness or misery belongs to him. The Tsar IS the law. No more evil a work has been done by the Devil than the invention of Kings and Tsars. No more tempting to weak-minded people is the willingness to submit to such a ruler in the name of peace and security. Once freedom is given, only blood can secure it. ON CURRENT AFFAIRS One of the world’s most violent and militant autocracies declared war on the natural rights of its neighbor, and in doing so, has declared war on the free world. It has done so at great expense to itself and having no remaining friends in the free world, it has turned to the few remaining autocracies for support. Even though the other dictators know that a drowning man can pull his would-be savior under, they fear the loss of their own subjugation powers, so they are left with no choice but to provide support. History will show that it is this very country we can thank for marking the beginning of the end of autocracy as a cancer in the world. Autocratic countries will argue that they are fighting a civilizational battle with the free world…that they are no better and no worse than their free counterparts...that they have every right to exist despite their tyrannical nature. However, these countries do not represent civilizations. They have no real citizens. Instead, they have obedient subjects who fear the harsh reprisals of their tyrannical governments. They have Tsars or Kings or Great Leaders or General Party Secretaries or Supreme Leaders…all the same and all the work of the Devil. OUR TASK The people of the world must live in freedom for there to be real peace and security. One can never be exchanged for the other. Reasoning with autocracies is madness and folly. Now that they have attacked a country on the path to freedom, gone are any remains of kindred spirits with them. Freedom has departed them. Free people must look into the future and see that it is absent of autocracy to find the strength to hasten its end. Dear freedom-loving people of the world, now is the time to end all futile experiments. Now is the time to realize that autocracies should not and cannot be forcefully ended by external means. Now is the time to turn our backs on the authoritarian world and deprive them of the reciprocal benefits of trade and communication with us. Now is the time to wall ourselves off in every way from them. Now is the time to fend off attacks by autocracies on the free world. Now is the time to let the world’s autocracies whither. No matter the price, it will be worth it in the long term for the sake of our children’s futures. Out of their ashes must eventually grow just societies no matter the number of cycles of human misery required to achieve it. It is up to subjugated people to realize their misery and fight their way out of it. The free world cannot help them. They must realize that the Tsar is not the Law. The Law is Tsar, and the Law rightfully belongs to the people! We need not set them free. We need not and should not even support internal opposition. We need only to fend off their attacks on the free world and to banish them in every way until in their suffering, they by their own hand find their way out of the dark and into freedom. And they must find it without assistance! Only then can they be allowed to establish relations with the free world.
@@TR850 Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I am surprised that my comment stayed up. YT usually takes down my comments asking people to avoid Chinese bikes and ATV's. Shame on them for that.
@derekthomas5294 I honestly doubt that is YT that takes them down. It's probably the owner of the channel....but as you can see I had no problem with yours 🙂
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I have the same bike and I love it. For long rides through the desert it suits me very well. Thank you for sharing all of personal modifications you have made to yours it was informative.
lovely bike - friend has one and he has done 10k miles now without a blink of an eye
I really like your bike and the thorough review of all the mods! Many thanks.
@@TR850 Thanks.
😂 It does look like a long video but I set a whole Saturday night for that sort of enjoyment... It's a very interesting machine 🗞️
Vet owned 😁... Nice bike, thanks for sharing the specifics..
Che spettacolo
You can make your video as long as you like old mate. Great work with the bike.
Awesome bike and setup!
@@modulate72 Thanks. I will do a short add-on because there are a couple of things to be aware of.
Thank you for sharing 🎉 cheers from Morocco 🇲🇦
Great change!!!😊
Verry nice set up
Please keep us updated after some big miles on it. Looks like a great purchase.
Hello Bibo! Again thanks a lot for sharing this information with us. Still it is not easy to find a base bike for long travelling and to setup it up without changing too much. "Weight is everything" - my motto on mountainbikes. As you mention this is the same with motorbikes for that purpose.
The weight difference between EX and and "regular edition" is considerably. Not sure if it is possible to setup EX - version for street use.
But the seat height - at least for me - points urgently to the "regular edition" version which can be ordered with 910mm height. I would feel even more safe with lower height.
Unfortunately both version are not for use with sozius.
For 2025 KTM will release a new "enduro r" with 390ccm besides updated models "enduro r 690". The weight will be very interesting to check.
Ciao salve
@freedomandbike Firstly, forget about the EX. It's competition only, limited number, much more expensive and a more delicate engine not suited for long traveling. The Standard version has a well tested, street derived engine. Perhaps the new KTM 390 (Adventure R and/or Enduro) could be a suitable platform, but I highly doubt in terms of weight.
Thank you for this very detailed vid on the bike. I'm kinda wondering if I should either go for the EX or the 800 rally.
@PKAWA Two very different bikes. It depends on your use. The EX is in limited number and competition only. The 800 Rally is more all round, like an "adventure" bike.
I really want one. I am waiting for some long term reviews from you regarding services etc.
And also how it holds up after you put it through some long distance traveling stuff I am hyped :)
@@mikethompson7046 I will 🙂. Subscribe 😄😉.
You seem really cool buddy i won the class 21 championship in score in 2013 maybe someday i could learn more from you .
For your tools, maybe a plastic rain pipe that you mount in the left space of the skid plate or in the front of the skid plate behind the rear wheel would help you carry the tools. It's cheap, light, tough and absolutely waterproof
Yes, thank you. I'm aware of the mod. Nowadays, because of mouse + air, I need to carry much less tools which are extremely light and concentrated. It all fits in a small bag 20x15cm.
Great video, interesting!! The raidek system is ok to also ride on road??
@@stephanecortese9186 Absolutely! In order to preserve the mousse, it's important to preserve the tire pressure. I keep it at 24-26 psi.
why the bigger battery ? the alternator should bring easy 65W to charge anything while the bike is running?
@argentum_on_glass There are many reports that the OEM battery has been having some issues. I mounted an excellent EarthX ETX12A to avoid any problem ☺️.
Merci pour votre vidéo. J'ai une couronne de 52 dents également, acheté chez KTM. Elles sont identiques.
A combien de km faites vous les vidanges ?
@@jean-patktm9243 Pour le moment seulement 2500. Je ferai encore plusieurs vidéos sur le Kove et ma configuration.
I will do oil changes every 3k-4k kms.
Is this a wide seat from UncleWang? Do you like it? Wouldn't it be better if the wide part went all the way to the end of the seat? Have you looked at the wide seats from SeatConcept?
Yes, it’s by Uncle Wang. Having the seat wide till the end is more esthetic than practical. You don't sit at the very end and for me it's usually covered by a bag. The Seatconcept option I'm sure it's excellent, although pricier.
hola!! has tenido algun problema con ella? estoy mirando si comprarme una. me da miedo que le falte potencia en bajas revoluciones para las dunas y areas mas de enduro. y tambien, hay alguna configuracion de centralita + tubo + filtro que gane mas potencia que la que te ofrecen en el concesionario al comprarla? muchas gracias. :)
@marcosantonguzmandelazaro8514 Hay que recordar que esta es una moto de rally, no de enduro, por eso le gusta ir rápido, a altas revoluciones. El mío tiene corona de 52 dientes, filtro abierto, ECU y silenciador versión profesional. Aparte de estos cambios, la única solución para bajas revoluciones es instalar una ecu Coober.
@@biboandagape vale gracias! Con la corona va mejor en bajas verdad? pero cuanta velocidad punta te ha perdido?
@@marcosantonguzmandelazaro8514 No mucho. Velocidad máxima 155/160 km h.
Hi, i really like your video, very interesting, i'm from mexico, are you here in mexico too?
@@VictorDiaz-x7v Yes. Veracruz
hi, could you share pls whats width and rise ProTaper handlebar? thnx
@aleksandrawierzbicka6920 It's the Pro Taper Evo handlebar - YZ High. For the specs you can look it up yourself.
Can you share a link to order the same plastic engine guard?
www.moleculemoto.com/product/Full-Coverage-Skidplate-2024-KOVE-450-Rally/59
It's in the description - Molecule
Would it be possible to list all the mods. FYI Bitly is not working.
The list is really very long. I suggest you to visit www.marchesinidiego.it and read it carefully.
Please let me know capacity enduristan soft pack.
Size M, L, XL.....
pause the video and zoom in .....Blizzard XL
@vinegemma1755 Yes a Blizzard XL, and a Tornado 2 Medium on top. The tank bag is a Sandstorm 4x.
Wow, it is a Long Time you published a new Video. Where are you now?
@@freedomandbike I'm in Mexico. Veracruz.
@@biboandagape Fine! I am also a little "older" and plan to make long trips in the future. Therefore I am very interested in your information. Not only in technical information but in planning stuff, too.
@freedomandbike Don't be afraid to ask, happy to help. Perhaps on my Instagram channel it's easier to chat.
all the links don't work...
Thanks. They all work now 😊
Italian Bro here put a bike together that would cost the same as a KTM or more!
@allistairneil8968 If you kit up an Exc, you spend way more. I've done it for my trip to Africa.
Hi
How are you planing to handle the 4000km valve checks on the motor? On the road that is a lot.
Thanks for the video i will use your idea of heat protection of the right tank.
Cheers from switzerland
Ruediger
money on the table - the valves will not need any adjustment inside 15k
Crack!
Please do not purchase this motorcycle. Look where it comes from and make the right decision.
I think this is more of a political question than a technical and objective comment. I fully understand your concern and actually this is exactly what is holding me off from buying one. However, in this case I would also have to stop riding KTM. Not all of their stuff comes from
Austria. Shame on them.
@@TR850 Agreed...KTM and its associated brands should cease production in China. Same is true for all western companies who manufacture goods in China for export. They need to repatriate production in the 'West" or we need to help them overcome their greed and do the right thing by avoiding those specific products so they can see that we do not support the CCP's efforts to cause trouble for the world's democracies.
I am not sure where you are from, but here in the US, so many of our small and mid-size towns have been hollowed out by shipping jobs to China. So sad and so short-sighted. I am not a big fan of tariffs, but I think it is inevitable that tariffs will be needed to force people to do the right thing. I just can't figure out why we in the "West" do not see the danger in supporting the CRINK's (China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea).
While I'm tirading, I think India as a country needs to make a decision as to which side they are on. They cannot continue to support Russia's tragic war in Ukraine by buying their oil yet suffer no consequences for their actions. They either need to commit to democracy or else we need to turn our back on the country. I'm sorry to say that, but the time is now for the world to decide whether autocracy or democracy will win out. I for one sure hope it is democracy that comes out on top, though this is definitely not a foregone conclusion.
I have heard that some of our politicians want to apply tariffs to Chinese imports to encourage them to manufacture in our countries. I say NO! We absolutely do not want more Chinese infiltration into our societies. This is not a game...this is serious!
Thanks for your thoughtful comment, @TR850. Ride safe, my friend, and thanks for riding smart.
@@TR850 Now is the Time to Let the World’s Autocracies Whither
-Derek Thomas
ON FAILED EXPERIMENTS
Once a government grows in power beyond its necessary duty to redress the moral defects of an imperfect humanity and instead becomes a baton to control its subjects, autocracy is established. If allowed to flourish, it becomes impossible to extricate without great suffering and bloodshed.
While under normal circumstances, the choice of a people to suffer under the tyranny of an authoritarian government should be just that, their choice, such is the state of world affairs and such is the inevitability that autocracies cannot contain tyranny within their borders, it is no longer possible for free people to peacefully coexist with them. The once-held notion that building up a thriving middle class within autocracies would eventually produce a just society has failed every place and in every way it has been attempted. The tragedy of these failed experiments has been that it has accomplished nothing more than feeding and growing the cancer of authoritarianism to metastasis. Its extraction has and will become ever more dangerous, yet ever more necessary.
The opposite has also been tried with similar results. Sanctioning and closing off such societies from the benefits and efficiencies of reciprocal relations and trade has proven equally ineffective. In this case, however, their economy has been unable to grow to unmanageable proportions. The cancer persists but does not metastasize. Such countries become dependent on other autocracies and represent an undesirable burden on them. Without support, these travesties sadly either persist or mercifully collapse.
ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
The development of weapons so destructive as to render their use unlikely except in the face of existential threat has had the effect of further enhancing the intractability of autocracies. All large wars are now proxy wars in which the holders of such weapons need not worry about the peace and security of the homeland. Autocracies holding such weapons cannot and should not be forcibly set free by outsiders. That does not mean that we cannot turn our backs on them. History has proven the durability and success of free nations and the weakness and failure of autocracies. The time is now to put an end to the autocracies’ practice of feeding off the success of free countries to enrich and empower themselves politically, financially and technologically.
ON PEACE AND SECURITY
Authoritarian regimes work tirelessly to convince their weak-minded subjects that guaranteeing peace and security is the most important role of government. Then they proclaim that their people have been provided with what they most covet. When anything happens that threatens peace and security, the authoritarian claims that his subjects must sacrifice their freedoms further in the name of peace and security. Without freedom as a bulwark against tyranny, a budding autocracy becomes a disgrace of human nature, an absolute government, an anathema to freedom. The autocracy at this point has reached critical mass, just as a nuclear weapon does, and nothing can stop the inevitable chain reaction. Avarice grows such governments in size and power. And while the proclamations of the Tsar are made more palatable by his appointed government, they are not more just. At this point the people are gentled, and fear moves freedom out of reach. In the Tsar lies many of the powers of GOD. The distinction between good and evil and the means to happiness or misery belongs to him. The Tsar IS the law. No more evil a work has been done by the Devil than the invention of Kings and Tsars. No more tempting to weak-minded people is the willingness to submit to such a ruler in the name of peace and security. Once freedom is given, only blood can secure it.
ON CURRENT AFFAIRS
One of the world’s most violent and militant autocracies declared war on the natural rights of its neighbor, and in doing so, has declared war on the free world. It has done so at great expense to itself and having no remaining friends in the free world, it has turned to the few remaining autocracies for support. Even though the other dictators know that a drowning man can pull his would-be savior under, they fear the loss of their own subjugation powers, so they are left with no choice but to provide support. History will show that it is this very country we can thank for marking the beginning of the end of autocracy as a cancer in the world. Autocratic countries will argue that they are fighting a civilizational battle with the free world…that they are no better and no worse than their free counterparts...that they have every right to exist despite their tyrannical nature. However, these countries do not represent civilizations. They have no real citizens. Instead, they have obedient subjects who fear the harsh reprisals of their tyrannical governments. They have Tsars or Kings or Great Leaders or General Party Secretaries or Supreme Leaders…all the same and all the work of the Devil.
OUR TASK
The people of the world must live in freedom for there to be real peace and security. One can never be exchanged for the other. Reasoning with autocracies is madness and folly. Now that they have attacked a country on the path to freedom, gone are any remains of kindred spirits with them. Freedom has departed them. Free people must look into the future and see that it is absent of autocracy to find the strength to hasten its end.
Dear freedom-loving people of the world, now is the time to end all futile experiments. Now is the time to realize that autocracies should not and cannot be forcefully ended by external means. Now is the time to turn our backs on the authoritarian world and deprive them of the reciprocal benefits of trade and communication with us. Now is the time to wall ourselves off in every way from them. Now is the time to fend off attacks by autocracies on the free world. Now is the time to let the world’s autocracies whither.
No matter the price, it will be worth it in the long term for the sake of our children’s futures. Out of their ashes must eventually grow just societies no matter the number of cycles of human misery required to achieve it. It is up to subjugated people to realize their misery and fight their way out of it. The free world cannot help them. They must realize that the Tsar is not the Law. The Law is Tsar, and the Law rightfully belongs to the people!
We need not set them free. We need not and should not even support internal opposition. We need only to fend off their attacks on the free world and to banish them in every way until in their suffering, they by their own hand find their way out of the dark and into freedom. And they must find it without assistance! Only then can they be allowed to establish relations with the free world.
@@TR850 Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I am surprised that my comment stayed up. YT usually takes down my comments asking people to avoid Chinese bikes and ATV's. Shame on them for that.
@derekthomas5294 I honestly doubt that is YT that takes them down. It's probably the owner of the channel....but as you can see I had no problem with yours 🙂