KTM's marketing team scared us a bit with its buildup for the 1290 Super Duke R, nicknaming it "The Beast" and pointing at a truly frightening spec sheet: 1,301 cc, 180 raging horsepower, 144 ...

Of all the motorcycle types on the road — sportbikes, cruisers and every oddball in between — the naked literbike might be the most outrageous. Endowed with massive, superbike-derived 1,000cc+ engines ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

Building on the status and foundation of the standard KTM 1290 Super Duke R, the Austrian brand has introduced a new version called the 1290 Super Duke R EVO. This new naked bike shares the same 1301 ...

The Austrians over at KTM are a very innovative crew. Not exactly one of the most talked-about bike makers in the world at street level, the company relies heavily on its competition successes and ...

In the final days before the official launch of the KTM 1290 Super Duke R on October 18, the company is drip-feeding information on its website. The latest includes photos and the output figures of ...

Utkarsh has over 15 years of experience traveling and documenting his adventures through words, photographs and films. Being an MBA, Utkarsh comes from a marketing background. But his quest to travel, ...

The KTM 1290 Super Duke GT is so astonishingly good, it could be the best road bike you can get. Punchy performance, poise, cultured handling, adjustable comfort, easy, effective electronics – we ...

KTM has revealed photos of their upcoming KTM 1290 Super Duke GT sport-touring machine, and it looks like the bike is very close to its final production form. The GT still has camo wraps on it, so we ...

KTM's 1290 SUPER DUKE R, to give it its proper title (yes, KTM does really insist on the shouty capitalisation) sits at one of the extremes: it's a ground up road-bike, meaning no part of it has ever ...