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After endless spy shots and teaser trailers, the eagerly anticipated KTM 890 SMT is here – the first bike to bear the Supermoto Touring name since the V-twin 990 SMT of the late noughties.
Designed to provide a halfway house between long distance comfort and supermoto scratching, it tips the scales at 194kg and sits between the existing arsenal of 890 Dukes and 890 Adventures as a leggy corner carver, powered by the firm’s Euro5-compliant 889cc parallel-twin engine.
Versions of this LC8c motor can already be found in the aforementioned Duke and Adventure models, however KTM say the SMT has a fresh re-tune to match the more aggressive, abrupt nature of a modern-day motard.
We’ve been expecting the SMT for years – first spotting it in testing back in October 2021. Now here in the flesh, it looks set to go up against the likes of BMW’s F900XR, and MV Agusta’s Turismo Velo