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Two-Stroke Tuesday | A Decade On, KTM 250 SX Used Ride

Heath Griffin — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:54:50 +0000

Greats like Jeremy McGrath, Jeff Ward, Stephan Everts and Jean Michel Bayle all cemented their legacies on 250 smokers, before environmental and political pressures brought about a change in class

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MV Agusta & KTM: The Facts & Future

Alan Cathcart — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:00:20 +0000

It was a show-stopping sensation when last year on the eve of the annual EICMA Milan Show, it was revealed that MV Agusta, wholly owned since 2019 by Russian investor

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Interview: Sardarov & Pierer On The MV Agusta/KTM Partnership

Alan Cathcart — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:59:55 +0000

Up until 2023, MV Agusta has been entirely Russian-owned since Timur Sardarov, 40, completed his family’s acquisition of the historic Italian brand in September 2019, with a further injection of

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Throwback Thursday: 2009 KTM RC8R, Changing A Lemon Into An Orange

Bike Review — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:00:30 +0000

As we celebrate Remy Gardner winning the Moto2 Championship on a KTM and now riding MotoGP for the brand, along with Jack Miller signing for two-years, over a decade on

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Model Updates: 2022 KTM 1290 Super Duke R & EVO, EICMA 2021

Bike Review — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 02:00:56 +0000

When the first KTM 990 SUPER DUKE models broke cover in 2005, they brought a surprising blend of supermoto hooliganism and street bike usability to the fore. Now it’s time

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Review: 2021 KTM 890 Adventure & Adventure R

Roland Brown — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:25:29 +0000

Back in 2019, I was riding the KTM 790 Adventure R, guiding the all-new parallel twin through the desert at the launch of long-awaited pair of middleweight contenders. This

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Quick Test: 2020 KTM 790 Duke

Simon Harris — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 23:40:31 +0000

KTM’s 790 Duke is a hooligan’s holy grail that has been conceived to dominate the mid-weight naked sportsbike segment. It goes. It stops. It looks sharp. It has refined electronics

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Review: World Launch, 2020 KTM 1290 Super Duke R

Roland Brown — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:46:30 +0000

The Super Duke has long stood for nakedbike performance and aggression, stretching back past the first 1290 “Beast” of 2014 all the way to 2005, when the original 990 Super

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Launch: 2019 KTM 790 Adventure (standard)

Roland Brown — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:20:30 +0000

We’ve barely ridden a kilometre from the hotel on the standard 2019 KTM 790 Adventure and already I’ve repeatedly been reminded what a unique, exciting and challenging place Morocco is

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Launch: 2019 KTM 790 Adventure R

Roland Brown — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 05:36:45 +0000

For an anxious moment, the top of the dune looked out of reach. As I climbed the gentle slope in the Moroccan desert, twisting the 790 Adventure R’s throttle slightly

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