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Originally Posted by dtour
Regarding the 690/701 platform I might consider upgrading in the future. I’m just a bit discouraged by its power (not being an aggressive rider I’m not sure I’d know how to handle it nor whether I’d enjoy it) and again reliability. Though as I understand it with the 2019 update they fixed many of the most recurring issues.
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I'm not an aggressive rider and am generally found to be bumbling along at 70-80kph, entranced with the scenery. Ever so often I open it up but I'm running mousses so only go over 110kph when I'm on the last lap home and will be changing the tyres and mousses before the next trip. Thanks to Covid and then family illness, my current set of tyres and mousses I fitted on the Spanish bike were almost 7,000 km ago, some time in 2018. I have fresh BIB mousses and Michelin Desert tyres in the garage which I will likely fit this summer.
The reliability issues were sorted in 2012, which is why I bought my first (of three) 690s in 2012.
EDIT: what I forgot to mention is that there's an underseat switch that changes the throttle response from soft to standard to sports. It comes set with standard. The first thing I did was to switch it to soft for off-tarmac use and that's where it has stayed even since.
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Last edited by Tim Cullis; 10 May 2023 at 08:17.
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