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Cycle News 2020 Issue 19 may 12

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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R O T T W E I L E R P E R F O R M A N C E K T M 7 9 0 A D V E N T U R E R R I D E R E V I E W P38 The man behind this most macho of motorcycles is Rottweiler owner Chris Parker. Parker and I have a history together as he built the intake systems for the KTM 1290 Super Duke R racers Chris Fillmore and I used to finish first and second in the 2017 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and he's built a solid business around modifying KTM's from the early adventure models, right through to 2019-released 790. "Basically, what we wanted to do was prove what the bike can do from a consumer standpoint," Parker says. "We didn't want to go so over-the-top with it that people would disassociate with it. We wanted to really test what we sell." To do so, Chris entered Vannieuwenhuise (pronounced van-newen-house) in the 2020 Sonora Rally as the sole entrant in the ADV Pro category, which served as a Beneath its wild exterior is a 790 Adventure that's had lots of careful mods to turn from a casual ADV bike into a full-blown racer. T H E B U I L D

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