KTM 990 Supermoto T ABS

KTM 990 Supermoto T ABS powered by a liquid-cooled 115bhp V-Twin engine, the long-distance supermoto SMT also boasts Brembo radial four pot callipers which, KTM claim, “results is a sensitive ABS braking system that lets the 990 SMT stop safely and with pinpoint accuracy on any surface and from any speed.”

Designed specifically to be as minimal as possible and using what KTM dubs “rollover detection,” the system can be turned off manually for stints in the dirt.



Considered by some a 990 Super Duke equipped for extended-range comfort and fitted with standard detachable soft luggage, the bike features long-travel suspension and an upright seating position, while the fairing and flyscreen provide wind protection.

The KTM 990 Supermoto T is likely to be a true competitor for bikes like the Ducati Multistrada 1200 S Touring, Yamaha Super Tenere, BMW RT1200GS, and other road-going adventure bikes that feature the braking technology.

Color range for the 2011 KTM 990 SMT includes black, orange and white.

KTM 990 Supermoto T ABS Features:

Year
2011

Engine


Liquid cooling, four stroke, 75°V-twin cylinder, DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder

Capacity
999.8
Bore x Stroke 101 x 62.4mm
Compression Ratio 11.5;1

Induction
Keihin EMS With FPT fuel injection

Ignition / Starting
- / electric

Max Power
116 hp 85 KW @ 9000 pm

Max Torque
97 Nm @ 7000 rpm

Transmission / Drive
6 Speed / chain
Clutch Wet multi-disc clutch, operated hydraulically
Frame Tubular Chromoly space frame powered coated.

Front Suspension
48mm WP USD adjustable, 200mm wheel travel

Rear Suspension
WP shock, fully adjustable, 210mm wheel travel

Front Brakes
2x 305mm discs 4 piston calipers

Rear Brakes
Single 240mm disc 2 piston caliper

Front Tyre
120/70 ZR17

Rear Tyre
180/55 ZR17
Seat Height 855 mm

Dry-Weight


Fuel Capacity
19 Litres

KTM 1198 RC8R

KTM, long known only for its highly capable off-road bikes, is doing it by being different – mostly. One look at the 2010 KTM 1190 RC8R is all it takes to know that it wasn't designed by an Italian. KTM is based in Austria (as is designer Gerald Kiska who has worked with KTM since 1991) just a day ride over Stelvio Pass from Italy, but there's no mistaking KTM's non-Italian Teutonic design language. Perhaps the distinctive design of the RC8R is the result of Austria’s location snuggled between Italy and Germany: the cold, engineering-driven German influence blended with the romance of Latin Europe.
Opinions about the beauty of the KTM RC8R vary wildly, but no one will ever call it boring or uninspired.

Opinions about the beauty of the KTM RC8R vary wildly, but no one will ever call it boring or uninspired.



The RC8R’s chiseled design creates a sensation wherever it stops. If an F-117 stealth fighter crashed into a motorcycle factory, the RC8R would be the likely result. Slim and angular, and swaddled with matte-black paint, it looks stealthy, even if its radar-evading qualities are dubious. Although few would describe the black and orange machine as “pretty,” we admire the courage to step outside of the well-worn sportbike design box with its bold origami shape. Opinions vary.



“Angular shapes and bold use of black, white and orange color scheme makes the KTM a clear standout in styling in the liter class, possibly rivaled only by BMW’s new S1000RR,” says MO’s Senior Editor, Pete Brissette.

“They say there’s a fine line separating genius from lunacy, and for the RC8 there’s a fine line between distinctive styling from downright repugnance – you choose,” observes Tom Roderick, MO guest rider and freelance journalist.



KTM’s compact LC8 V-Twin is used as a stressed member to augment the large-tube chromoly steel frame.

Like the Ducati, KTM’s top-line superbike is powered by a liquid-cooled V-Twin, although here, too, it is done a little different. Its cylinders are set at 75 degrees rather than the Duc's traditional 90-degree Vee for a more compact arrangement. The non-R RC8 makes do with 1148cc and 15 horsepower less than the R’s claimed 170 crankshaft hp made at 10,250 rpm. The R has several high-tech features such as titanium intake valves, a lofty 13.5:1 compression ratio and a low-friction DLC treatment on its camshafts’ finger followers. Peak torque of 90.7 ft-lbs from the Rotax engine is said to arrive at 8000 rpm. We discovered nearly 150 horses pushing the back wheel when we had four-time AMA tuner of the year Carry Andrew strap it to the Hypercycle dyno.

While KTM builds its own frames from large-tube chromoly steel, it sources high-end componentry from world leaders like Brembo and Marchesini across the Dolomite Mountains. Fuel injection comes from Keihin in Japan.

KTM 1190 RC8R Features:

Year
2011

Engine


Liquid cooling, four stroke, 75°V-twin cylinder, DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder

Capacity
1195
Bore x Stroke 105 x 69 mm
Compression Ratio 12.5 :1

Induction
Electronic fuel injection

Ignition / Starting
- / electric

Max Power


Max Torque


Transmission / Drive
6 Speed / chain

Front Suspension
43mm WP Upside down adjustable, 120mm travel

Rear Suspension
WP shock, fully adjustable, 125mm travel

Front Brakes
2x 320mm discs 4 piston calipers

Rear Brakes
Single 240mm disc

Front Tyre
120/70 ZR17

Rear Tyre
190/55 ZR17
Seat Height 805 mm / 825 mm

Dry-Weight
182 kg

Fuel Capacity
16.5 Litres

Standing ¼ Mile
10.8 sec

Top Speed
271.4 km/h

KTM 1198 RC8R Race

FIM Superstock legal, the 2011 KTM 1198 RC8 R Track makes 180hp with the included Akrapovic EVO exhaust system (up 13hp from the road-legal 1198 RC8 R). The 1198 RC8 R Track also includes a new air filter, a thinner head gasket, and a revised engine map for race use, which help make additional power for race usage.



Everything street-related has been removed from the 2011 KTM 1198 RC8 R Track, making the bike even lighter than the svelte road version. The wiring harness has been re-worked with dismantling in-mind, which every track day enthusiast will enjoy while wrenching from the pits.



The RC8R Track, which doesn’t come with headlamps, turn-indicators and other street paraphernalia, gets a new white/orange paintjob, Akrapovic EVO 4 exhaust, new fuel-injection mapping, Dunlop slicks, Brembo monobloc brake callipers, uprated WP suspension components with more adjustability and adjustable subframe, handlebars and footpegs. Oh, and to remind you that this is the racing-only version, it also has a thinner seat.

KTM DUKE 125

The Duke 125 will serve entry-level riders, with Europe adopting a graduated licensing system that caps engine displacement at 125cc for beginners. The little Duke gets its go from a 124.7cc Single. The four-stroke single-cylinder is liquid-cooled, with a four-valve head actuated by dual overhead cams. A low-slung exhaust exits directly behind the engine and under the swingarm, Buell-like in its appearance.



Bosch fuel injection feeds the 125, with claimed power production topping out at 15 horsepower at 10,500 rpm and 8.9 lb-ft torque at 8000 rpm. A six-speed transmission transmits the beginner-friendly pony production to the rear wheel via chain drive.



The Duke 125 frame is chromoly trellis, with steel subframe. WP suspension units consist of an inverted 43mm fork and rear shock, with both units delivering 6.3 inches of travel. Brakes were developed with Brembo with single disc units in the front and rear.



The Duke will target entry-level riders in Europe, where a limit is set on engine sizes of 125cc for beginners.
Styling of the small Duke befits its larger-displacement siblings, but KTM’s learner Duke weighs in at a diminutive 282 pounds, including a full 2.9-gallon tank. Seat height is 31.9 inches.



Euro youngsters may long for the performance of the more potent Dukes, but while they pay their dues in the EU’s tiered licensing at least they can look the part with the new 125.

KTM 125 DUKE Features:

Year
2011

Engine
Liquid cooled, four stroke, Single cylinder, DOHC, 4 Valve

Capacity
124.7
Bore x Stroke 58 x 47 mm
Compression Ratio

Induction
Electronic fuel injection

Ignition / Starting
/ electric
Clutch Multi-disc clutch, operated hydraulically

Max Power
11.3 kW 15 hp @ 10500 rpm

Max Torque
12 Nm @ 8000 rpm

Transmission / Drive
6 Speed / chain
Frame Space frame in chrome -molybdenum steel tubes Subframe: Steel

Front Suspension
38mm WP USD Upsidedown forks, 160mm wheel travel.

Rear Suspension
WP monoshock 160mm wheel travel.

Front Brakes
Single 280mm disc

Rear Brakes
Single 220mm disc

Front Tyre
110/70 -17

Rear Tyre
150/60 -17
Seat Height 810 mm

Weight
125 kg

Fuel Capacity
11 Litres

2011 NEW KTM 350 SX-F PREVIEW

2011 NEW KTM 350 SX-F

Dirt Rider was out today to get the aboriginal ride on the 2011 KTM 350 SX-F, one of the best talked about machines of the decade. By activity rogue and blank the rules, or guidelines, KTM

has already afresh congenital a bike that fit into the need, acutely answering a catechism a lot of riders accept asked and no one has answered.

2011 NEW KTM 350 SX-F ENGINE PICTURE

The 350 is aloof that, a 350. Smack-dab in the average of area accepted 250Fs and 450Fs are. It is like that in weight feel (245 pounds, abounding of gas) and in power. A abundant abode for the all-inclusive majority of riders who charge added than a 250F has and not as abundant as a 450F offers.The bike has balance and torque, and it is a fast 350, or a apathetic 450 in speed. Unless you rev it, again it is like a fast 450. How? Well, it gets traction. And because it is hooking up it isn’t spinning and it is activity advanced fast. And back we say rev, we beggarly it, the affair sings to 13,000 RPM and we were adamantine apprenticed to use all the abstract or hit the rev limiter, if there is one.

2011 NEW KTM 350 SX-F WALLPAPER

The bike feels a lot added like a 250F than a 450 in weight. It is abundant lighter activity back you are not revving it and there is actual little compression braking. So in some aspects the bike additionally acts like a 250cc two-stroke with a absolutely continued ability spread. The FI was flawless.

2011 NEW KTM FREERIDE PROTOTYPE / ELECTRIC

NEW KTM FREERIDE PROTOTYPE

The 2011 KTM FREERIDE PROTOTYPE at the Tokia Motorcycle Show 2010. Starting on March 26th, alone on www.ktm.com! Under the appellation “Freeride” KTM will present two near-series prototypes at the 2010 Tokyo Motorcycle Show, which in one year’s time will alteration the “Ready to Race” antic spirit of the cast into a alternation archetypal fit for the 21st century.

2011 NEW KTM FREERIDE PICTURE

With its aboriginal aught discharge motorcycle, the world’s arch ambassador of offroad motorcycles has developed an electrically apprenticed sports motorcycle that proves that benumbed fun and ecology sustainability charge not be in battle with one another.

2011 NEW KTM FREERIDE WALLPAPER

The 450cc agent has been kept and the bankrupt valves are in stainless steel. Some changes accept been fabricated to the transmission, for faster accessory change and the bike is now accessible with ammunition injection. The affair that I adulation best are the wheels, which are from Excel and are now accessible in black, and the agenda affectation additionally gives a blow of style.