2008 KTM 1190 RC8 reviews

• KTM RC8 – life begins at 140 (Motoring.co.za)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2008 KTM 1190 RC8

  KTM's first superbike, the RC8, looks like exactly what it is – a narrowly focused sports bike built by an off-road motorcycle company. Its uncompromising off-road design is typically KTM; everything is visibly over-engineered and its hard-edged angular styling has nowhere been allowed to take precedence over function.
  You either like its looks or you don't - but it hangs together a lot better than the fragmented bit and pieces of the SuperDuke I rode recently, although its colour scheme was the same, three different shades of orange over black.

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• 2008 KTM 1190 RC8 - First Ride (Motorcycle-usa.com)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2008 KTM 1190 RC8

  One of the most hotly anticipated sportbikes on the planet for 2008 comes from a primarily dirt bike oriented company in Austria. KTM is testing the literbike waters with the 2008 RC8 which it recently unveiled at Spain's Ascari racetrack. Our overseas correspondents from MCN were on hand for the big news and sent this report in an airtight bottle across the Atlantic.
  
  Finally. KTM's superbike is no longer a mouth-watering concept bike, but a real motorcycle that you can actually buy come April for a competitive £10,695.
  

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