On The Pegs May 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 5 | Page 49

On The Pegs
VOL. 5 ISSUE 5 - MAY 2020
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The standard version isn’t made to do that. So that’s the hard part, and we’re try-
ing to cross that bridge. If you’re trying to ride a standard one and I give opinion
to someone, like they love their bike, there’s a happy medium of where you want
to take it and where you want to go. It’ll do all the trails. That’s what my thing is.
A 1090 is 500 pounds. You go exploring on that 500-pound bike, it falls over, you
don’t want to have to be stuck somewhere downhill with it and have to lift it up.
So you have to be respectful. So a lot of guys see a trail and they’re by themselves
and they’re on a big 1090 or 1290 Adventure, they don’t go down. The 790 be-
ing 465, it’s only a handful of pounds lighter, but it feels so much lighter, and the
way it’s down low you can go explore on that bike. That’s what I like, especially
on the east coast where there’s more single track type stuff that’s not big roads
like in Colorado that you can go 200 miles. Here you can do on the east coast 80
or 90 miles of single track. You can ride all the single track you want on a 790.
That’s what I like. And explore, and if you have an issue, it’s not a huge undertak-
ing to try and lift it up when you’re by yourself. You could go ride it all over, where
when you ride a 1090 bike, “Man, I’d be afraid to get this thing stuck,” is the first
thing you would say. But a 790 you’d be like, “Okay, I can do this.” The problem is
too we’re coming to find that just because I like the taller ride in the Rally, doesn’t
mean everybody can touch the ground on it. Our 790 standard, we have an S
model 2 which is just street, is low to the ground because it has street wheels.
On our Adventure standard R the seat height is super low. So a lot of guys a little
older wouldn’t want a tall one with the better suspension just because he can’t
touch the ground. So there’s a height restriction there too. When you’re a big guy
and you’re tall and you can do it, no problem. But you get someone else that’s
like, “I like it. I understand what you’re talking about, but it’s too tall in general.”
So our standard still can do what you want it to do. It just depends on what your
application is.
Another thing is, you don’t want to put your feet down a lot on these bikes.
That’s my thing when you ride it. On dirt bikes you dab a lot and so forth, but if
you have bags, have luggage, you can get your foot caught behind a lot of that
stuff and you can hurt yourself. Even with that bike being so big, you’re going to
have to take a fall and not try and stick your leg out to catch it. A lot of dirt bike
stuff you go and ride and you go into a turn and you can run your foot on the
ground a little bit, you’re feeling the bike coming down and you can push off of
it with a dirt bike. On an adventure bike you’re not going to do that. Like I said,
that’s the point of where I say respect the weight because you can’t manhandle it
like you can a dirt bike. You got to let it do what it’s going to do. n