The 690 SMC R is the sharpest road bike KTM build and nothing else rides like it. The LC4 single produces 74bhp and 54lb-ft from 690cc, and with the bike weighing just 147kg that is a power to weight figure most sports bikes cannot match on a real road. The latest generation motor has a bigger bore, shorter stroke, forged piston and cylinder head work, so it keeps the bottom-end grunt a big single should have while revving hard all the way to the limiter. A second balancer shaft has taken most of the vibration out of it, making the delivery far smoother than these engines used to be.
It is the handling that sells it. A chrome-moly trellis frame with a 48mm fully adjustable WP fork and fully adjustable WP monoshock, Brembo radial four-piston caliper on a 320mm front disc. The electronics are a proper modern package, which is rare on a supermoto. Cornering ABS, MTC traction control with anti-wheelie, two riding modes in Street and Sport with different throttle response and intervention levels, and the Quickshifter+ up and down system. Everything can be switched off at the touch of a button if you want the bike raw.
This one is a 2022 model with a Leo vince exhaust which sounds incredible compared to stock, it has the two keys and code card plus the service history is all logged on the KTM database with four services a summary print out for your records.