August 2008It’s been a bizarre few weeks for the 990sm a trip to KTM HQ for a new ignition block after some arsehole took a screwdriver to it and now it’s back with them again for a service and a new display panel. The recent heavy rain has wreaked

, will be screaming for more. But why the drastic change? Well, it's all about the engine. My old KTM 950 Adventure had a superb motor, and was blessed with carbs, rather than nancy-boy fuel injection. The new 950SM gives me the opportunity for one final fling before

want straightline performance but also plenty of grip and feel. They’re too expensive to be a ‘second bike’, but maybe you can look at a used model? Last year KTM updated the 950SM, increasing its capacity and adding fuel-injection. The 990SM gave

significantly short 1510mm wheelbase and a 98bhp V-twin engine. The package is, at the very least, somewhat purposeful.Continue the KTM 950SM Review 2/2

I have had a test ride of 07MY KTM 950SM demonstrator today over about a 1 1/4 hour period, consisting of town work, fast A roads and fast B roads, some of which are bump, in fact the same 'test circuit' as I used on the KTM 690 SM yesterday

and KTM’s 950SM are just two such bikes. Unique, ground-breaking and stunning to look at, they’ve thumbed their noses at conventional wisdom and are both busy forging their own path. They’re very different to each other but tick precisely the same boxes

at 11am so we arrived three hours early to suss the job out. We parked the bikes - BMW's K1200R, the Ducati Multistrada S and KTM's 950SM - fairly near the Plaza del Pueblo, or Ground Zero in tomato conflict terms. You're going to have to wait

IMAGINE opening your garage and seeing a brand new KTM 950 SM sitting there, wot cost you no cash at all. That would be great, wouldn't it?Well it could just happen! The KTM 950 SM is one of the latest looney-tunes bikes from the KTM stable. It

THE TEAM on TWO magazine have got a brand new KTM 950SM to give away in their free-to-enter competition.All you have to do is click on the link below, answer an easy question, fill out your details and you'll go into the virtual hat. Should you win

'm on KTM's 950SM, Jim's opted for the BMW HP2. The KTM is absolutely, unequivocally in its element. This motorcycle is barking mad, and we've found its spiritual home. But this is a hooligan tool that really can be used as an everyday machine, the world