This big-capacity supermoto nameplate marked the arrival of a more road-focused, LC8-powered performance motorcycle in the mid-2000s. It arrived as a street-oriented sibling to the company’s adventure models, using the large 75-degree V-twin platform that had already established itself in KTM’s early LC8 family. The bike was offered in standard and higher-spec R form, with the R variant emphasizing a more aggressive supermoto character and showing up in later model years. Production is documented across model years from 2005 through 2008, making it one of the short-lived but important road models from the brand’s first wave of large-displacement four-stroke street machines. Enthusiasts remember it as an unusual bridge between the brand’s dirt-bred supermoto identity and its later full-size streetbike direction. It was ultimately superseded by newer road models, but it remains a notable early example of a big V-twin supermoto from Austria.
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