Hiya Steve! Cheers bud have missed being around mate. Been dying to get back on here. Hopefully will get a bit more regular again. Yeah I'm happy with the Roadlok. Wouldn't pay full price though 🤫 Very convenient and looks cool. And adds extra peace of mind from an opportunist. Cheers Ric

Thanks mate! Yep going great and loving it thanks. Trying to get back on track for sure. Everything I had planned has been put on hold and delayed. Still working on home to sell and don't have the free time I used to have. Definitely hope to be regular again soon mate. Also the fact I have a boat load of toys to now potentially play with.. as I work for a multi brand dealership 🥳. Plenty good stuff to come yes KTM but also a mix up of some nice other two wheeled weapons too. 😀

Hiya Jason! Yes nice kit but too expensive. Only got or because I had cheap off a friend. Nice looking in the orange finish too Cheers Ric

Hiya David and thanks mate. Definitely "only" viable for me at the reduced price,,, does look pretty cool though! :)

Hiya Paul! Yes mate I found out later about the ones available direct. But agree the ktm one looks trick 👌

Hello mate. Cheers for the feedback 🙏. Yeah completely agree ktm stamped version is way over priced. I got it for around the same as you as it bought used. You’ve definitely done the right thing. 👍

Hey mate hope you're well!! Yes am happy with it. Although a rallymoto weekend would be a good test to see how it stands up to off road crap thrown at it 🤔

@@RicardoYeep Caw yeah can imagine😬 hoping all going well with the new venture fella👍

@@TheBigBraap cheers mate. So far so good thanks. 👍

Ah mate so sorry to hear the bad news 🤦‍♂️. That’s terrible. To be fair I wouldn’t even bother with an alarm myself and prefer a tracking unit instead. I can be notified by text of the bike is moved, also track it’s position and helps recovery with the police if done with enough time. These days no one will get involved even if the alarm goes off for fear of being attacked with a weapon. Alarmed disc lock is cheaper than an alarm so you can still get a sound, it secured the bike also as much as the road lock and is much cheaper. Back it up with a tracker and that’s my advice. And at home keep in a garage or under a cover of you can. If outside then a massive chain to a ground anchor 🫣🤦‍♂️

@@RicardoYeep Ricardo, many thanks for your great advice. For sure I will go the way you told me.

Hiya Bruce good to hear from a familiar face again 👍. Yeah hear what you say. However I'll be giving it a long term test. And keep it maintained. I initially thought similar to you however I can see positives that the normal disc locks don't have. 1. Less cumbersome to carry around if you have one like I have Xena XX which is top big to fit under the seat or storage box. The Roadlock only needs the lock pin to be stored away. 2. Safer for the bike. I've owned numerous disc locks and different bikes.. I have wrecked fenders and bent rotars due to my own stupid forgetfulness. Riding off without unlocking..... This Roadlock will not allow any movement of the wheel so will immediately stall the bike of you don't notice something is wrong right away. And to be fair you'll notice pretty sharpish unlike being able to do a full rotation and smash up your fender damage calipers 3. It's such an easy addition to have regarding only having to carry the pin. That it can just be an easy and effective additional security feature. Even if you still have a full on disc lock. I now use my alarmed disc lock on the rear wheel instead now 🤣

Hiya Bruce congratulations on the new beast 💪 👏 glad your loving it.. And yep agree it's only a deterrent for opportunist thieves from simply snapping the steering lock and wheeling away. Living in London which can be similar to South Africa LOL. All you need is a few guys and a van and it's lifted and gone in 60 seconds. Even the best chain costing Hundreds will take few minutes with a good battery angle grinder. We just do our best I guess 😔 which unfortunately sometimes is never enough. If the want it they will indeed get..

Haha. Ciao amico mio! Sì, sono ancora qui per fortuna. Sono stato molto molto occupato con la vita che si mette in mezzo alle cose. Si spera che ad un certo punto ho intenzione di diventare di nuovo regolare. Apprezzo il messaggio, grazie! Anche a me piacerebbe tornare in Italia. L'ultima volta ho viaggiato lì circa 6 anni fa sulla moto. Ho intenzione di venire di nuovo presto forse. Ma dovremo vedere :) Grazie Ric

Hey up mate! Nooo is very easy even on the side stand. Just pop the spring loaded pin into position and lock. Then just roll the bike forward a few centimetres and pin will then lock into the disc. Its a great idea as you will never have that problem on normal disc locks where you can actually ride off for nearly a full turn of the wheel and smash your fender up or warp a brake disc. This one won't even let the bike roll at all forcing the bike to stall. 👍

@@RicardoYeep I see, that's what the spring is for. Very clever.

Hello my friend! I have to be honest I cannot remember now as it was long time ago and I sold the bike since so cannot check. I only use with OEM discs yes. From memory I think it would have been around 15/17mmm. I cannot remember what was in the kit. The best way to check I think would be to choose and measure the selection of bolts in the kit. And end sure the length of thread on the OEM bolt that is driven into the caliper matches the amount of the bolt used to attach the lock. But also allow for the spacer and lock. It should be pretty easy to figure out 👍

@@RicardoYeep Thanks for your very fast answer. The manual says 17.1 mm spacer and M10x80 bolts. I just tried with after market discs from TRW. And sadly it doesn‘t work. I just have to try with OEM discs. But I don‘t know if other spacers would be a good solution to get it worked with the TRW discs. I do not want to crash something on the brakes.

Hello Eduardo thanks for the feedback and watching the videos 🙏. Sorry to hear about your accident!. Let me ask and find out today. I’ll see if there is another option 👍. Cheers Ric Ps what colour is your subframe? Model and year?

Thanks for your help, my 1290 model is the 2021 Orange color.

the S model, not the R

Hi Eduardo. Send me a message on FB or Insta. You should find me easy I think. We can catch up there

Hello mate ! To answer your question no you don’t need to rock the wheel. Just push the pin in place.. it’s spring loaded so even if it’s not alighted when you lock up. If anyone takes it off the stand and tried to wheel it then the pin will fire into place through the break disk hole. Job done. So no need for faffing. As for the lever locks.. I’ve lived in London for 27 years… I’ve seen all kinds of theft. You go buy a lever lock for whatever it costs you. All I’ll do is cut your break line with some £1 cutters from a bargain store in half a second 😂.. fair enough your lever is locked but who cares.. your brake will lose pressure and the wheel can rotate again 👍🫣… as a security device about as useful as a chocolate teapot 👍 Hope that helped 🙏 Cheers Ric

Hello my friend!! It’s no problem if it’s on the centre stand you can spin the wheel obviously to get the pin to lock. BUT if you want to lock it on the side stand you still just push the pin into it. As it is spring loaded as soon as the bike is wheeled if some one try to move it then the spring will fire the pin into the hole anyway 👍 hope that helps Thanks Ric

@@RicardoYeep thanks. now i have to choose, if is better this lightweight solution or big and heavy lock with alarm...

@@ichbinmartin big heavy chain is better for securing it to a fix post. And alarm to make noise if possible. They all have positive and negative aspects. Obviously this ktm roadlok you can still pick the bike up and throw in a truck

Hello mate! Nice to hear from you again. I'm guessing you are referring to expected damage during my off road capers? I ordered some orange touch up for the engine bars where they were scratched. They look better but you'd definitely see them in person looking at the bars 😁

@@RicardoYeep And yet it did a very good job 👌👌👌 you found exactly the same color? thank you very much for the quick response!!!

@@Noregret348 Its a close as I could get for the time being. But something I will revisit at some point with correct colour match 🙂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 to be fair i agree with you on that. I almost choked when I saw the full price for this. Like I said I only have it as I had it at a bargain price. 😃 Cheers Ric

Hiya Fredrik. Cheers for commenting. For sure will stick a video up on it soon. I've not had it very long. 👍 but so far I actually quite like it. Very different from my Rukka kit. But I bought it for a different reason which I'll go through soon. Cheers Ric

Same here lol... We shall soon find out at some point :)

Hello Damien. I am 5ft 5 (and half) inches tall. Personally speaking I found the 1290 SAR very tall for my use. Yes I can ride one ok but us definitely more of a challenge in tricky circumstances. My inside leg is 29.5 inches. And sat on the sar seat I pivot with both feet completely clear of the floor. But I am fine one footing and one on the peg. However it's far too much of a distant even still for me to be ok with on a day to day basis. This combined with the fact I would get more out of the SAS package anyway and its tech than the SAR was the reason I went dor SAS instead. For my skill levels and real life use. I can do everything on my SAS that I could do on a SAR anyway. And still have a bike that offers more in terms of rider functionality and comforts. In short.. for me yes the SAR was too tall. And off road I would find it en even bigger challenge to an already challenging situation when taking a big girl like a 1290 off the tarmac. Sometimes being closer to the the floor helps in circumstances you need to be able to paddle through stuff with feet or quickly stop yourself from losing balance at low speed. It was already tough going on the off road vids uploaded already. 100% I would have dumped the SAR a load more if I were riding that instead.. I'm just physically too dam short for those conditions with such a tall bike with my level of skills. But everyone is different. Try one out and see for yourself. You may love it . It's a beautiful bike for sure 👌

Hey there mate. Yup I 100% agree with you. Like I mentioned I had it at a bargain price and the only reason I decided to buy one. I thought it would be an interesting addition to do a video on and long term test. As you don't see many in use. LOL for obvious reasons like too expensive 😅

Agreed mate! I like it as it’s quite practical but no way I pay full price 👍

Hello mate!! Yea totally agree there. I only have this KTM branded version because of a friend sold it to me for nearly half price. It does look cool though 👍

Hiya Jon. Yup agree it's insanely priced. Is no more effective than a normal disc lock. Just a fraction more practical to lug around. Not worth the expense though. I got it out of curiosity as well as being a bargain relatively to its RRP. But no bargain in any literal sense 😆. Is just good against opportunist. As you said still gone in 60 seconds with a few lads and a van. But then again it's not meant to prevent that. 👍

@@RicardoYeep I’d be interested to see if it affects the centripetal and centrifugal forces on the front wheel then your bars- especially after your fine tuning to remove the shake and weave at higher speeds. I’m guessing it’ll just need more weight over the nose

Well the bike already pulls to the right... maybe it will now be better with weight on left 🤣 Can't see how it will have centrifugal affect as not attached to rotating component. If anything it will be aerodynamic effect and static weight distribution? I'd like to believe some kind of R&D was carried out regarding detrimental and safety issues hopefully

@@RicardoYeep are your forks twisted in the yolk after your fall on that muddy rally you did - might need resetting by rehearsing the yolk bolts and pinch bolts at the axle stanchions

I'd agree it is not for most folkes. And definitely not at the original retail price. I had this at a discount but does still serve a purpose "to a certain level". It is a basic disc lock in essence. But does save lugging something around. It will not stop a determined and prepared thief. But will stop the opportunist from simply snapping your steering lock and wheeling it away.

@@RicardoYeep looks dangerous also. Just use a normal lock.

@@radagastthebrown578 hiya again. I dont think there is anything to worry about. I doubt it would be sold if it were dangerous. Also there is plenty more dangerous possibilities to worry about when riding around than this accessory lock. If it's personally not your thing then cool. It's not for everyone as mentioned 👍 But agree a normal lock will be just as effective. And some even better than this at less cost Cheers Ric

@@radagastthebrown578 I’ve seen a Africa twin which had a chunky disc lock fitted ,guess what the thief did? ,he cut a big chunk out of the disc . You can’t do that with the roadlock.

Hiya mate yep seen that too. Spent a lot of time in London here.. you can get around every disc lock. This roadloc is no different. I like the roadloc as it’s just more practical for me to ride around carrying instead of a block of lock in my ruck sack sometimes. I just carry a locking pin. But point is I can get around this lock just like any other disc lock 😒