New 2.5L owner, things I hate about the motorcycle.

Gimlet said:

Thinking about it, the pegs on my KTM are not round. They're flat off-road style pegs with serrated toothed grips, except your foot doesn't ride on the teeth because they have rubber pads inserted which can be removed for standing up during off-road riding. They do fold up and they're quite narrow but very comfortable. Maybe that's the answer.

But, given the ergonomics of an adventure bike you sit directly above the pegs so your feet naturally sit flat on them. If similar items were fitted to a R3 GT with a much more foot-forward riding position they'd need to be adjustable so they could be angled to meet the flat of the sole of your boot. Shame Pivotpegs don't make a plain set for the R3.

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KTM also offer broader versions of the standard foot pegs. Those ones also have some adjustability in them due to a kind of cam fixing geometry.
They are supposed to spread the load across the sole of your boot a bit more.
I still have a set of those from when I had my 990 Adventure S.

I’ve never seen so much absurd complaints, let me then add to it…

Engine is to small
Not enough torque and HP
No air conditioner
No radio
No second pillion seat
The bike is too light. stainless steel should have been used instead of plastic or aluminium
The tyres are too small
It sucks at off- road
The bike gets wet when it rains
Bike has no training wheels
The bike uses too much fuel, should have been hydrogen driven.
It only has 3 cylinders
There should be a dealership in ever town
No internet connectivity
No auto pilot
They dont offer a diesel version
No automatic gear box
It only has 6 gears
the mirror dont reflect enough
The indicators dont blink fast enough
You need to turn the throttle to make it go forward, want a pedal to go with floorboards.
The front brakes should have been in the back, nobody uses the front anyhow
sidestand should be on the right side, Im not left handed
No ignition slot/key
The instrument cluster does not give weather updates.
It does not look like a KTM
It has no snap-on toolbox to change pistons
The fuel injection is a overkill, inflating the price
service and warrantee should be 20 years
It a boring bike , nobody ever looks at it.

Please keep it on topic and not personal.

Thanks

If there are certain things you don't like about it, then change it, i did.
Like for instance I didn't like the bear claw, I cut it and put K&N's on where they'd show.
I also didn't like the rear fender, so I cut that too.
Didn't like the to short sissy bar, so I had a longer one made.
To every problem, there is a solution.

That's all part of the fun. It's not really your bike til you've tweaked it and personalised it. I've never had a bike that I've left stock and the Rocket will be no different.

I knew before I bought mine that I didn't like the pale grey plastics. But a 2023 plain black bike at the price I paid was too good to miss and was thousands cheaper than a double black Storm. It won't cost anything like the difference to swap out the plastics for carbon and I like carbon anyway.

Thought I'd have to change the seat at first because the pillion pad was digging me in the small of the back but I must have got used to it as I no longer notice it and it now feels perfectly comfortable, so that problem's fixed itself.

Loads to do from exhaust, tuning, emmisions crap elimination and suspension set-up or possible upgrade (done all that on pretty much every bike I've owned) to modifications around the back end to get rid of the boot scraper and fit a fender that works. I'm liking Jagster's solution and looking into something similar.
Always something to do.

I like my Rocket 3 just the way it is. I must be an anomaly. Still healing from a recent hernia surgery so I'm chomping at the bit to ride again.

#2 on the list.

I think someone is punking us…….

And destined to become the longest thread ever (that is unless @mexican chimes in)....

Journeyman said:

And destined to become the longest thread ever (that is unless @mexican chimes in)....

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Did somebody say Mexican?