Ultimate Off-Road Adventure Dual Sport Bike - rtwPaul's Modded KTM 500 EXC - Six Days / World-Ready

Is this the perfect full-time off-road adventure motorcycle, capable of handling any road or trail in the world reliably? After nine years of living and traveling on two wheels, rtwPaul thinks it might be! Check out Paul's amazingly modified KTM 500 EXC Six Days enduro motorcycle, all ready to take him around the world for the next few years (at least!)



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[nickcalnephone]

Insurance company: Do you have any modifications...?

This guy: Get yourself a cup of tea, sit down and we'll begin...

[ckenealy]

Amazing bike, this is truly a dream machine!
I rode a CRF150 across Vietnam, started in Saigon finished in Hanoi. Took 3 weeks, I had my GF on the back + all of our luggage. The first week it was fun the remainder was a pure painful slog of being in 5th gear with the throttle wide open trying to stay at 85+ Kms. We had bugger all protection, when I think back to that I can't really believe how silly I was thinking that was a good/cool Idea. We rode a mountain pass that took 4 hours through the night, not a single car passed us we really were in the middle of no where, how easily a flat tire or a pot hole could have taken us out. The standard light was so bad I had to squint to see and when it would rain my helmet had no visor so I just had to slow right down. At the end of the journey I realized that I want to do this again but properly, like you are doing. So i moved back home and for the last 1 year have been saving my ass off and planning my next proper big trip. Unfortunately Covid has other plans but I hope it all settles down soon and I can be off on my maiden voyage. Again awesome bike, I wish I had someone like you in my life to guide me a little but I guess that is part of the fun/learning process. Cheers.

[mojosdad]

Heck of a setup there, looks like you’ve got it all covered. Best of luck on your journey.

[mrgregpappas]

Five years ago today I left Connecticut for a trip to Guatemala and back on a 2007 KTM 450 EXC. I did the cush drive, enlarged oil cooler for increased capacity, custom racks for soft luggage, larger tank, etc. It was primarily road riding, 100% across the USA, 100% across Mexico and some light trail riding in Guatemala.

It was like riding a chainsaw for 7-10 hours a day. I would never take a small single cylinder race bike on a trip like that again. For this trip, I guess if you're doing lots of off-road, the experience would be drastically different, but for me, my CB500X with a RR L2 kit has been the sweetest setup yet for my travels around Honduras and Guatemala (I live in Honduras currently).

[martinfoster]

Hit me up when you get to Ulaanbaatar. Or even before. I live there and ride a 1993 Transalp.

[EPeltzer]

It's incredible, actually, this almost EXACTLY the same year bike, same rally tower, wheels, even same luggage, that I was thinking of building, but ended up going with a 1970 Honda Trail 90 instead.

[dudunelkee]

i lik your humility and the fact that this bike is made for you and what you wanna ride.. indeed it's an awesome bike but not suited for everyone ! Good ride and hi from France!

[matticusmac]

The quality and feel of your stuff is epic and this 500 is friggin awesome!!! Great choice, Adam Riemann picked for motonomad, 500exc, he dround his in motonomad 2 and still finished, fantastic build!!!

[spencerwvcmoon]

Wow ! So glad you made it. Its ages since I saw you ON HERE when you were setting off that's great supercool bike too. Well Done PAUL.

[KTMBB]

Hell yeah !! Went the same route on my 2010 Ktm 530 and it's been completely awesome, in fact just got home 🤟

[ScrambleNorth]

I want to do a similar build to my 6 Days! I had thought about selling this bike but I’m kind of inspired to have an ultralight adventure bike!

[darrylgibb]

Man....you know what you're doing. Preparation like a Dakar winner. The best presentation how to I've seen. Welcome back and great riding ....

[vess]

This is my KTM. Almost nothing on it is from KTM. Haha

[plympytheplumber]

Awesome bike! I really like that skid plate/tool box!

[dabrula]

Gotta be more than 30 grand into this bike. Impressive build, glad to see you actually use it.

[SWTrailsAndWheels]

This is a magnificent and enviable setup!

[sandycollier]

Sic! nice quality sound on the video too! FYI, those of you wanting more details I see HoboMoped has a 9 minute video of this same bike.

[dilgwyn]

Hope your having a ball on such a dream machine 🤞
It was interesting that yo changed gearing to 15/48. What was this like off road ?
Did you gain torque and longer gears, 1, 2, 3rd ?
I have a 14 Husaberg FE 501 and was thinking of emulating your bike build.

[cedricfranzen]

Nice bike build! We might actually meet on the road somewhere: I'm getting my bike shipped to Almaty on Monday and will pick it up late April to ride it through the "Stans" and then back to Europe ;)

[LibertyEver]

Nice bike and extensive upgrades. Based on other videos and reading, I was glad to see you upgraded the fuel filter. I'd filter the fuel as it went into the tank, and I'd carry a spare fuel pump. That's been a KTM Achilles heel.

Adventure bikes should have a 5+ gallon fuel tank. No exceptions.