2017 KTM 1290 Super Duke R Video Preview

John Burns
by John Burns

Making a Motorcycle of the Year even better

Videos by Evans Brasfield, Brett Colpitts

But soft! What shiny LED headlight through yonder video doth break? It is the Beast – the new 2017 KTM Super Duke R – and Juliet Brasfield is at EICMA to tell us all about the new stuff that makes our 2014 Motorcycle of the Year even more fair than he, including more power, updated suspension, and the welcome upgrade of color TFT instrumentation.

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  • Spiff Spiff on Nov 09, 2016

    Evans, did you sit on the SDR? How far forward and down are the bars? Can you flip the mounts in the triples to bring the bars back? Set of Protapers to bring the bend up?

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    • Spiff Spiff on Nov 11, 2016

      Oh, I want it.

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