this is the ktm super duke r 1290 it's a 180 brake horsepower road motorcycle and
we're going to do a full and thorough review of this amazing v-twin motorcycle now this video is
mainly about what the bikes like to ride we're going to put some specifications in at the end and
the main ones as we go but obviously go to ktm's website and it's very comprehensive they've got
all the details this bike's so advanced there's so much to talk about i could be here for an
hour and we don't want to sit here for an hour watching me but um you know it does a lot of stuff
and you do need to look at the website to learn all the details of the various modes
and different settings it's got but i'm going to give you the basics
so 180 brake horsepower and 140 newton meters of torque what does that feel like well
it rides okay quite easily um at normal speeds um you can ride it normally if you want to
um when i say riding it normally you still you can feel there's a lot of power behind you it's
a bit if you've ever ridden a mental horse a good horse it's you can feel it underneath it
it wants to go all the time and you're sort of holding it back but when you unleash it
by god it's got some power and this thing shifts like nothing i've ever ridden in my life
so acceleration on this i mean it's just on another level it is so powerful
it takes a lot of getting used to and you need to ride this bike for a while to really
unleash its full potential because uh the rider is the limited limited limiting factor
because it's it's brutally fast if you want it to be so it's as much as you open that
but flipping heck i mean it is a fast motorcycle i mean if you had uh somewhere where you could
do some track days on it and really get to know it you can get your knee down on this
you know you could be the best rider in the world on a bike like this i'm not that sort
of rider i'm not a sports bike rider so i haven't got those skills i mean it would take me a while
to develop it and do track days and what have you but i mean you can still feel the power so
i mean if you want a mental motorbike that goes as fast as lightning buy this it's incredible you've
got a ram air intake between the lights here so it lets the air in straight through the front upside
down forks fully adjustable and rear suspensions adjustable you probably everything you can imagine
on a motorbike is on this bike it's incredibly advanced you've got a pasc slipper clutch
six gears and it does the quick shift so you don't have to use the clutch you can just open it up and
keep it open and change gear lightning fast it's got various sort of ride by wire modes and it uh
stops in voluntary wheelies and uh sort of various interventions so as i said look
on the website for all the different things that it does because it's quite complicated
got a 16 liter fuel tank about a 45 miles per gallon and out of that you get about 160
or so mile range from the full tank depending on how hard you ride of course
it weighs 189 kilograms and that's not uh heavy for what it is and it doesn't feel heavy
it feels quite high to me because i mean i suppose the tank's very high
and i'm used to cruiser bikes as my daily ride so obviously i'm very low with my legs stretched
out so it's a completely different riding position the rake on this is 25.2 degrees so
quite steep and obviously those sort of dimensions create fantastic sharp good handling and cornering
the seat height is 835 millimeters and i'm sitting on it i'm six foot three you
can judge by looking at me sitting on this bike whether it be the right size for you
um i'm probably i don't know it doesn't feel small to me i don't know if i look big on it but
it doesn't feel at all small it feels quite roomy i probably wouldn't want to be much taller than
what i am and certainly if you're a five foot ten five foot eight uh you'd be absolutely fine on it
this has bridgestone s-22 tires which were specially developed for the ktm jig
and they give you extra and outstanding grip in the wet as well as the drive
the front discs are 320 millimeters and there's twin discs and the rear is 240 and let me tell you
the stopping power on this motorcycle is the best i've ever experienced i mean it's it's so forceful
that like that when it's stopping if you're really pulling it up so phenomenal brakes now
the display on this bike is very good you have quite a clear rev counter tells you what gear
you're in and obviously the speed you're doing which changes extremely quickly and basically
you've got the various ride modes which are all selected from the left handle bar and you have
rain for obvious reasons street sport performance and track modes now uh track
and performance speak for themselves and you've got various settings you can adjust
sport mode is just a little bit more lively and street mode is still extreme but um not as
lively or as responsive perhaps a sport but you wouldn't notice it because unless you're one of
these people who can absolutely get ten tenths out of the bike and i'm not one of those people
uh the difference isn't uh that noticeable to me but i mean and it is response you can feel it it
is more responsive but um i'm not going to get the most about out of a bike like this i'm not
a good enough rider if i'm honest now i'm sorry uh darcy can't be here today um
he's got other things he's got to do so i'm filming on my own so there will be a limit to how
much i can film myself riding up and down which is zero to be honest um but we've got the gopro
footage our verdict on this bike is it's obviously absolutely incredible if you want a blindingly
quick road motorcycle that you can do track days on you can be as mental as you like on this
fabulous for that um everyday riding it obviously can ride along um normally but it's it's got so
much power you can feel it undo all the time so if you just want a normal bike for poodling around
going to work on and just not riding particularly fast then it's too much for you um but it's a bike
you definitely would buy if you want to open it up and go extremely fast don't forget to like and
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