When it comes to using platforms for motorcycle design, KTM is definitely the brand at the top of the game – they launched a whole separate brand using KTM bikes as their basis, after all.
Husqvarna digs aside, the Austrians are very skillful at building a variety of motorcycles from a single power plant, the 790cc line being a prime example of this
The KTM 790 Duke is our pick for sport bikes on the market, and the KTM 790 Adventure is head-and-shoulders above anything else in its category when it comes to off-road ADV bikes.
We know from investor documents that KTM has more 790/890 bikes in the pipe, the most likely of which is a 17″ shod SMT version with long-travel suspension. But, what if the company had a neo-café racer in mind?
That brings us to today, where designer Sreejith Krishnan Kunjappan has convincingly imagined what this 790-based street bike could look like.
Kunjappan pulls a number of KTM design elements into his sketches, most notably the headlight look from the 1290 series. In his design brief, Kunjappan says that the inspiration for the design comes from an Indian push-dagger called a katar.
That might be the case, but the bike looks very long to our eyes, especially with the rider photoshopped onto it. However, overall we really dig what Kunjappan is thinking here. This is a beautiful machine.
While the design is very much KTM, the concept would seem more at home in the Husqvarna street bike lineup. So far, KTM has not followed Husqvarna down the neo-retro road that the Swedish brand has been exploring. Maybe this creation is argument for that to change?
Source: SKK AutoDesign via HiConsumption
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