The KTM Super Duke line has always been about extremes. Take an upright naked, stuff the most powerful LC8 V-twin motor the Austrian brand makes into an ultralight frame, throw some WP Semi-Active suspension on the thing, and unleash the beast. At least that’s how KTM likes to advertise its Super Duke models.
What is essentially the badass older brother in the Duke family—which includes a 250, 390 & 990 model —the Super Duke 1390 R Evo sits atop the family tree, lording over its younger, smaller siblings with 190-hp and 106 lb-ft of torque at its disposal. It is a monster (no, not like Ducati), as anyone who's saddled one will almost certainly tell you. So, it comes as no surprise that someone who owns an upright naked with that kind of horsepower is going to want to let it loose around a racetrack, right?
Krämer Motorcycles has been producing purpose-built race bikes at its factory in Germany since 2009, and its GP2-890RR super sport is a “competition use only” bike built around the KTM Duke 890, with 138-hp on tap and tipping the scales at just 313-lb. It also cost $42,995, which might be out a most people’s price range for a track day weapon.
