At EICMA 2022, a new Chinese motorcycle manufacturer by the name of Kove made its presence felt. Not long after, the brand started releasing teasers of its new models, one of which, the 400RR, was an inline-four-powered sportbike. Now, exactly half-a-year later, the sportbike is ready to go into global production, but not without a few last-minute changes to the spec sheet.
On the one hand, the upcoming sportbike from Kove has been given a name change. It'll now be called the 450RR, and we'll get into the details of as to why in a little bit. That said, from a styling perspective, it seems that Kove has dialed down the aggressiveness of the bike, giving it a more conventional appearance. It's still very much a fully faired machine, but it does away with some of the more outlandish features found on the 400RR. That said, it still gets winglets, a bubble windscreen, clip-on bars, and rather aggressive rearsets. At the end of the day, it can't be denied that it sort of looks like a Ducati Panigale clone.
