KTM RC4

From Hell for Leather Magazine (no, it's not an S&M site): Calm down.  It's not a factory option.  It's a kit you can buy to turn a KTM 690 Duke into a sport bike.  It looks like loads of fun, but I'd rather keep the Duke as is.

To many of you, the bike you see here is something of a unicorn. A street-legal, single-cylinder sportsbike that weighs just 275lbs and makes 70bhp. That KTM LC4 motor is well-proven, has reasonable service intervals and won’t rattle your fillings out. Looks sexy in RC8-esque fairings too. The problem? KTM doesn’t actually make it, instead, the RC4 is only available in kit form from a German supplier.

Mid-capacity, single-cylinder sportsbikes hold so much promise because they’re: a) really light b) really torquey and c) incredibly simple. Those three attributes should equal accessible performance with the kind of handling typically reserved for GP bikes, all at reasonable cost.

Holy smokes, that looks like fun!  275lbs!  I can squat that!