Ducati DesertX vs. KTM 890 Adventure R
, 2023-01-03 14:00:00,
Rennie Scaysbrook | January 3, 2023
The midsize ADV market has a new and very potent player in the Ducati DesertX. How does it go against the established class king, the KTM 890 Adventure R?
Photography by Kit Palmer
We’ve said it a million times before here at Cycle News—the midsize ADV sector is the game to be in if you’re a manufacturer worth its salt.
KTM has known this for a few years with the 790/890 Adventure series, as has Triumph with its Tiger 850 and BMW with the 750/850 GS line. Yamaha recently joined with the Tenere 700 and Aprilia has done likewise with the fantastic Tuareg 660.
But there was one Euro manufacturer missing—Ducati. The Italians have made more noise than any of the aforementioned companies of late, releasing a deluge of new or revised models since 2019. That was the year we saw our first glimpses of the bike Ducatisti have longed for, a machine we finally got this year in the brilliant DesertX.
Far from being a trumped-up scrambler like the prototype that we saw in 2019 at EICMA, the DesertX was a ground-up job designed for serious sports adventure riding. And Ducati had one bike in mind it wanted to topple upon release, its Austrian neighbors to the north, KTM and the 890 Adventure R.
We’ve tested the 890 R against pretty much…
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