KTM 125cc Concept Street Bikes. Wow.

UPDATE 14/10/2010

Check it out folks, the brand spanker 2011 KTM 125 DUKE! Blimey, it looks like they have taken bits from both the 125cc concepts and made one badass looking bike!:

Image from MCN.

The only problem I can see (if I were to get one now) is that the 15Nm of torque would seem like a bee fart compared to the MT-01′s 110Nm…..

Maybe for a track bike then eh?

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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.