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KTM 890SMT

Long-Term Review

Given the KTM tagline of ‘Ready to race’ that scrolls across the dashboard of all of its models when the ignition is turned on, one might wonder why, and how, the Austrian firm have created what is, to all intents and purposes, a touring bike.

The SMT acronym refers to the fact that the bike is a ‘supermoto touring’, essentially giving the owner the ability to cover miles in comfort on top of what amounts to the sheer lunacy of a big-bore supermoto.

While KTM’s parallel twin powerplant

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