Sorry I like it. Would like a bigger tank though. ESPECIALLY I like the 17" front wheel . I desperately want one one one my Strada. Why make it a street bike and put a pain in the butt 19" wheel on it. We have a TR Strada AND a KTM 690 Duke. The KTM motor is powerful (read mental)and crappy rough throttle response and vibrates noticeably ( not impossibly) . The Strada is sufficiently strong but not a firebreather but the motor is so smooth in comparison. The ktm has THE most comfortable seat Sally or I have ever sat on. You really can sit on it all day. This one looks like the Husky seat...uncomfortable. BUT IT WILL VIBRATE. If you like the turbine smoothness and power delivery of the TR650 motor you probably won't like this one. And you WILL have to fit fuel controllers to richen up the throttle caus the KTM is lean to the point of pain in the butt . HOWEVER if it is a genuine supermoto ( well just motard really) then the motor will be brilliant. Backing it into a corner and powersliding out will be possible and fun ( once refuel mapped)
That was easy as pie on my bone stock 630 before I got it opened up and running well. But that's because of the crappy Pirelli Diablo tires that came on it...
You lay anything down and sit on the outside of the seat and it'll do it, but that's not the fast way through most corners short of the long straights into hairpins, and I'm not doing that on the street, too many unknowns... I've ridden on and with a few Beakers and SMC's and I was well on par with them on the 630. ETA: now on a long open stretch, they could pull away from me a bit, but in the twisties I was always right with/ahead of them.
I wasn't suggesting you do it on the road, just that you CAN. The duke will genuinely lift the front and slide the rear at the same time without any effort. This is why Sally rides her's with the fuel solenoid setting ( KTM call it a MAP switch but it just controls the rate of throttle opening and closing), set on rain mode...LOL
