New Bike Time - KTM 1290 Superduke R Special Edition

I was wondering that. I'm not sure that it's a little quieter than the standard R I rode last week. I'll take a better look later.
 
Personally I think there's buckets of low down torque on the CB1000R. The main reason I didn't buy a Ducati 899 was my CB made it feel slow as the Ducati didn't have that instant power.

Test ride one, is the best way to see.
 
Rear pegs have come off and new exhaust has gone on, AustinRacing -

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Fair point!


To be fair, the Akro sounded pretty good with the baffle out, but the AR has the edge I feel. A little deeper. A little beefier.
 
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Yeah, it still has it's cat. I did have someone on the SuperDuke forum offering me a good price on pretty much the same exhaust but with the straight through. I was saying I was concerned it would be too loud, asked the seller why it's not fitted to his bike... 'the Mrs said it was too loud'...

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Such a great looking bike. It still sounds pretty neutered even with that exhaust though. Is the video representative of the actual sound?
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Thanks. As above though, it's at a reasonable level I think. I don't think you can ever really recreate the real sound on a phone video though.
 
That's the deal I got. I believe you can get the 'regular' for £3k off too, but tbh the £1k for the extras doesn't seem to bad a deal.

They are of course offering this deal as the 2017 model has been announced and is even better! I'm not too bothered. To get the spec I got for £12k I would need to spend £16k I think. Quite a difference.

I honestly didn't realise this was a more expensive bike than the BMW S1000R (when the KTM is full price), which from what I've read, is possibly the better bike, but by looks, it just doesn't do it for me.
 
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