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When chatting about bikes with Blair, and his opinion of getting racing bikes for commuting, he sent me these pictures of KTM’s conceptual 125cc street bikes.
First of all, how smart are they!?
The KTM 125 Concept – Option 1 Race
The KTM 125 Concept – Option 2 Street
The KTM Duke R. 690 Single.
Well first off the 125’s are crazy nice. Obviously they don’t have the power of some bigger bikes, but for whizzing around town or indeed the back roads, this bike looks to be immense fun. Having seen the MCN video of the bikes at the show, I can undoubtedly say that the 125’s are amazing. The orange Race version has 2 Akrapovic’s sticky out the back. It’s almost a copy of a bike from the MotoGP games (the Climax made ones, not the new ones, which incidentally aren’t as good…) Amazing.
The Duke R is also very very nice. KTM have a lot of spiel on their website about them all, so check it out in full here.
As a fun bike, they all look like they would fit the bill. But unfortunately I am still not convinced they would be suitable for me.
Maybe the 125’s are so simple and cheap that I can justify getting one. If it gets crapped up, who cares, it’s easy to wash, the engine is on full display and I can get a new one if it falls apart (he says.)
Anyway, pretty damn cool regardless.
