SUPERMOTO MADNESS FROM £2K

When the loony tunes 690 SMC R vanished from KTM’s range in 2017, conspiracy theorists suggested boardroom politics had seen it culled as a potential rival to the then new Husqvarna 701. But KTM were simply prioritising other models that year and the brilliant SMC R is back for 2019 with the Duke’s Euro5-compliant LC4 singlecylinder engine, and continuing a lineage that stretches back to 1994.