bkruk
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Heard about this from a few sources......has anyone else heard anything?
See, here's the problem with that: KTM announced/leaked/previewed the RC8 4-5 years before it was available. By the time it hit the market, the sporting v-twin had become old news, outside of Ducati. That, as much as the fact that the performance was lagging badly by then, buried it in the marketplace. If you're going to be as ...weird... as the RC8, you better have performance in spades. Think about the splash that BMW made (and to a degree continues to make) with the S1000RR. If they wait that long, the next generation Ducs will either be out or will be on the horizon, they may have branched into three displacement categories, and the new generation SV will be a mature bike at a fraction of the probably KTM cost.There will be a new RC between 790 and 1290 no disclosure on what it might be. But don't expect it anytime soon 2+ years from what I am told.
Another manufacturer has one in the pipeline I'm interested in.
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Isn't the husqvarna 701 vitpilen basically to the KTM 690 Duke what our RC390 is to the Duke 390 ?