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WITHOUT going back over the pointless frustration generated by teaser videos or the fact they do nothing but diminish the impact of a new bike's launch, here's the teaser for KTM's 2012 Duke 690.

It's filled with the usual teaser cliches. Out of focus shots, too-fast cuts, odd camera angles and super-close-ups abound, all accompanied by tedious sections that show nothing but empty bits of road or desert skies without a bike in sight. You know the score. Speaking of which, the score is a typical 'anticipation-building' piece that does nothing but stop us from hearing what the bike sounds like.

However, if you can be bothered to hit the pause button at the right moment – and we've done it for you in the accompanying stills – you can actually see pretty much all the bike.

It's basically the 2007 KTM Stunt concept, reworked into a production bike. Even the paint scheme is the same. But the chassis comes, it seems, from the existing Duke 690, as does the swingarm (no sign of the Stunt's beautiful single-sider here). The engine does, too, albeit with more power, from what we hear; somewhere in the region of 70bhp should be on the cards.

A conventional exhaust replaces the current under-belly pipe, and the styling is less outlandish than we've come to expect from Dukes, with typically folded-paper KTM looks and a clear nod towards the firm's motocross heritage in the nose fairing, which looks like a competition number board with a headlight let into it.

It's set to appear for real in a week's time at the EICMA show in Milan.

Read more: New-for-2012 KTM Duke 690 revealed - Motorcycle news: New bikes - Visordown

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Rony

Nice now we have more competition !

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pulsar_flame

so 2012 auto expo will hold this ?

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Havent you heard about that member from Mumbai Pune who was banned for acting like a moderator?

A new 690 - I hope it doesnt come to India, and if it does, it comes with a HUGE price tag.


EDIT: The 2012 Auto Expo may NOT have a Bajaj Auto stand for motorcycles itself! Leave asides this. The newreaper bot picks up news from international websites like Visordown, MCN etc and posts it here. Whether or not they are relevant to Indian context. Dont have high hopes on it coming to India

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Rony

Hahahaha ... I know

But this was done intentionally as it is not first time that a thread has gone live without any moderator approval post !

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when is it coming over here in India...... i would love to have one of these

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Didn;t u read properly what written just below the Newsreaper name

he is official now .. he can post without mods approval

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Rony

Oh, My bad Did not notice it, anyways thanks for pointing it out !

I hope this bike hits Indian Market soon.

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