After 8,000 miles, the 640 Adventure was ready for new sprockets and chain. The teeth on the rear sprocket look like shark fins, ditto on the front, and after what happened to Darth on the last few miles of Loop the Lake (had to leave the Blue Angel on the side of the road and ride bitch with Stanton), I decided it was time for some preventative maintenance. I bought all my parts online from KTM Cycle Hutt, located in North Dakota, after a bad experience with the KTM dealer out in Draper. After counsel from Bart, I realized I needed to do the chain too, so I called Cycle Hutt to try to squeeze the chain on my order, but it had already gone out. The sprockets showed up before the weekend, but the chain didn’t, so this project will have to wait a few days. Stay tuned for a report. Instead, I decided to install new turn signals, taken off of Darth’s KTM 450 EXC-R. These are the stock “pointy” ones he took off after adding tiny micro LED turn signals. That was before he crashed while trying to ride wheelies. He probably wants these back now. This job required taking off the front mask, clipping some wires, and getting jiggy with the soldering iron, but after putting it all back together, they work just fine and the whole setup looks pretty slick.

 
Lights on.

 
Lights off.