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First Look : KTM Duke II
Printable Version Written: 28/03/2007 : 17:26. Read 10380 times (23/day).
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Xtreme supermoto, the first hybrid roadster/supermoto. Great mono cylinder engine, sharpened châssis, aggressive look. If you want to be singeled out, it is one of the way to go.
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The KTM 640 Duke II is a little exclusive, radical, and it is not the bike that will fit you in the crowd.
It is also a bike with a particular aesthetic, with its strange menacing face. But it has charm, but not beauty.
It is a bike that we love for the sensations that it gives, and not for its pure beauty because honestly it has not got any... or just little.

In fact it is a real Supermoto, lightly disguised as a roadster, very lightly.


It is more a Supermotard but only designed for this purpose. Some will say that this bike is only for show-off guys... maybe.
And we all admit that it looks like a modern rebel bike.

And to make it more radical, KTM offers in options some good parts like an antihopping clutch, Hydrolic clutch lever (two fingers), silencers made by Akrapovic, orange chain kit, and high performance break pads... But most of all for show-off guys, but only at home, tyre warmers...


With parts like these, the mean bike could easily become insane...


Engine :

Engine type: Single cylinder, 4-stroke
Displacement: 625 cc
Bore x stroke : 101 x 78 mm (3.98 x 3.07")
Performance :(homologated) 40 kW @ 6750 rpm
Max. torque : 60 Nm @ 5500 rpm
Compression ratio: 11.7:1
Starter: Kickstarter/E-Starter
Transmission : 5 gears, dog-clutch engagement
Carburetor : Mikuni BST 40
Control : 4 V / OHC with roller rocker levers
Lubrication : Pressure lubrication with 2 oil pumps
Engine lubrication: Motorex Power Synt 4T 10W50
Primary drive : 31:79
Final drive : 17:42
Cooling : Liquid cooled
Clutch: Wet multi-disc clutch, operated hydraulically
Ignition : Kokusan DC-CDI

Chassis :

Frame : Chromium-molybdenum, powder-coated
Subframe: Chromium-molybdenum, powder-coated
Handlebar : Aluminium, conified
Front suspension : WP USD Ø 43 mm (1.69")
Rear suspension : WP monoshock
Suspension travel front / rear: 140 / 170 mm (5.51 / 6.69")
Front brake : Bremb ...


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