690R - your thoughts

[neil-ph]

There is a 690 R up for grabs, with 31000km (check bikes for sale).

I am tempted, would be a great 2nd bike.

Those of you who do ride them  would be the best to ask for a review.

What is the general consensus?

[aka.Goliath]

I assume you’re concerned about the mileage...

I have had my 690 from 9000km. Have done many long trips and have only had a handful of issues at the beginning (dirty fuel, broken seat, broken speedo etc.)

I service it regularly and have done some preventative maintenance including upgrading the rocker arms, can tensioner and now have over 30,000km on it. I feel it’s more reliable now than ever. I just don’t have issues with it. There are plenty of story’s of guys do 100,000km on these bikes no problem- they are fairly over engineered.


That being said if it hasn’t been looked after it will be another story. But to sort out a top end on a bike like this is fairly strait forward and not that expensive relatively speaking.

[Thumper Dumper]

There is a 690 R up for grabs, with 31000km (check bikes for sale).

I am tempted, would be a great 2nd bike.

Those of you who do ride them  would be the best to ask for a review.

What is the general consensus?

Can comment on the one for sale but they are great bikes.
I have a 2015 and love it, I also have a 790 but couldn’t bring myself to sell the 690 just because it’s so much fun to ride.
But then again I’ve always loved thumpers.

[edgy]

I had a 2013 690 and really enjoyed the bike, they do need to be preventative maintained though and I seriously doubt you’d find a 100 000 km example that’s never given issues

[Omninorm]

Best bike I ever owned.

[neil-ph]

Thanks for the comments guys......

[Dwerg]

My 690 now has 32 000 odd kms on the clock. It’s dead reliable and I’d trust it to take me anywhere. I probably had 5-6 other bikes while owning the 690. The rest are all gone but I can’t bring myself to let the 690 go. That said I bought it new and spared no expense on maintenance.

[geopat]

there is a great thread on adv rider forum about bulletproofing a 690 mine has 50 000km on it and all the issues Iv had could have been avoided if Id found that thread in the beginning get the bike and go through that list and you shouldnt have any issues

[Colin Kaapschehoop]

Please post the link

[geopat]

Sont have it handy just do some Google magic