Whereas the predecessor 990 Adventure used a conventional cable throttle, which had a rather twitchy character, the new incarnation now features a state-of-the-art, ride-by-wire system. The 75-degree V-twin engine comes alive with classic KTM sound and without hesitation. Powertrain and PerformanceĪt the heart of the Adventure lies the light-weight mill stemming from the 1190 RC8 R superbike. Dual, floating, perforated 320mm Brembo disc brakes with two radial four-pot calipers and a radial master cylinder ensure stopping power in the front. After about 120,000 working hours that included every department at KTM, the result (at 150 hp and only 507 pounds) is one of the most fun bikes on the market, and it has a wide range of uses. They wanted to create the lightest, most powerful, and versatile travel enduro they could. The engineers in Mattighofen started with the concept three years ago. With the all-new and versatile 1190 Adventure, the Austrian manufacturer brings the soul and character that defines its “Ready to Race” motto to the street. See also, generally, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Desert Animals: Physiological Problems of Heat and Water (Dover Publications, 1979), especially pages 204-224 (desert birds) & pages 225-251 (desert reptiles).6 min read The fact that KTM has been dominating the off-road circuit for years is evident by a sea of orange commonly seen along motocross tracks and trails across the country. (3) Many creatures are providentially fitted to fill hot or cold desert (and similar xeric scrub) habitats, e.g., the Sage Grouse, named for its sagebrush-nesting habits and for eating sagebrush buds and leaves. Rattlesnake”, National Geographic video clip, posted at. And sometimes, if you happen to live in the America’s Southwest, you need not journey all the way out to a desert, to see such God-created marvels as the resilient roadrunner. )ĭesert-dwelling creatures - like Roadrunners (or Diamondback Rattlesnakes!) - daily demonstrate that fact, for those who have eyes to see. God loves variety! (For some Bible-based analysis regarding this timeless truth, see “Valuing God’s Variety”, posted at. The arid, torrid wastelands that we call deserts are relatively inhospitable, for most creatures, yet God has providentially fitted some animals to fill desert habitats-such as desert rats, rabbits, roadrunners, and rattlesnakes. The victorious roadrunner then eats the dead diamondback! (2) Then the bird repeatedly thrashes and crushes the serpent’s head against rocks-killing the rattlesnake. These chaparral birds live in deserts and xeric scrub (such as sage-dominated scrublands), and in other rural and semi-rural regions of America’s Southwest, feeding on bugs, scorpions, lizards, and snakes.īut can roadrunners survive showdowns with diamondback rattlesnakes? Yes! Although roadrunners are famous for running from danger, they aggressively attack rattlesnakes, face to face-i.e., bill to fangs! Amazingly, God has so designed the roadrunner that it can speedily aim at the face and fangs of a striking rattle, using its pointed bill to bite (and clamp) onto the rattler’s open mouth, between the upper fangs, rapidly lock-biting the snake in a death-grip. (If, your own life, you would hold dear): The snake’s crown is thus cracked and crashed.Įnds with the rattler breathing his last On rocks, the snake’s head, thrashed and smashed. The bird aims – the snake’s head now bashed Struggle, wiggle, - the trapped snake did strain, ( JJSJ’s poetic review of predator-prey turnabout) Hence, here is a poetic tribute (in limerick format) to the roadrunner, whom God caringly designed to “hold its own”, and then some (!), when dueling with a diamondback in the desert! RATTLESNAKE ATTACKS MAMA ROADRUNNER! Rattlesnake”) posted at (slightly longer than 2 minutes). For an action-packed documentation of such a do-or-die duel, see the National Geographic video footage (“Roadrunner vs. Recall how Haman, in the Book of Esther, plotted to persecuted the Jews, to death, during his heyday in the Persian Empire? The result was the opposite of his diabolical scheme, however – and it was the Jews who deftly ended as victors (over their persecutors), with Haman himself being hanged to death, on the very gallows that he had constructed for hanging his Jewish rival, Mordecai! (1)Īmazingly, the animal kingdom sometimes sees something comparable happen – such as the scrubland showdown that sometimes occurs when a rattlesnake decides to prey upon a roadrunner. Sometimes hunting backfires: the hunter becomes the hunted! Let their table become a snare before them and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. DUELING WITH A DIAMONDBACK IN THE DESERT: ROADRUNNER vs.
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