The chassis is, as was the whole bike, completely standard. Of course, it did have a decent amount of KTM Hard Parts that comes as part of the Six Days package. All I did was personalise the cockpit, suspension clickers and spring preload set-up. The bars were standard, but I fitted the 10mm higher Hard Parts vibration-reducing mounts and positioned them in the rear top triple clamp bar mounts. The bar clamp was rotated to the forward position though. Most tall riders tend to use the front post holes, but I’ ve never liked that slightly over-centre forward feel and, because the KTM is quick steering and I ride it mainly in the sand, I preferred to keep weight off the nose where possible. I also slid the fork tubes down in the clamps to raise the front a few mm. It was opposite at the rear with PDS suspension. PDS suspension tends to ride high, so I ran as little preload as I could get away with to lower the rear for the sand. Fortunately, the PDS system is very controlled and quite bottom-resistant whilst still remaining compliant … so it’ s not overly sensitive to preload in a bottoming-out sense. With this low and long feeling chassis, it is brilliant for sand and pretty good everywhere else to the point where I never changed the set-up, no matter where I rode.
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