FEATURE
PIKES PEAK BUILD 2017
P102
exhausts and footpegs. Moen had de-
livered a couple of large boxes of KTM
PowerParts, so on went new rearsets,
rear seat cover, WP steering damper,
320mm wave brake discs, full Akrapovic
titanium exhaust and muffler, and the
suspension was sent to WP to have their
race cartridge kit fitted to the forks and
the rear shock swapped out for the WP Pow-
erParts version with a 190Nm spring fitted.
At this stage, the forks are mounted in the
standard black triple clamps because the
orange PowerParts triples for the 2017 model
are not in the U.S. yet, and are slightly differ-
ent than the 2016 units. To fit a 2016 lower
triple to the 2017 bike, we'd have to machine
up a junction to run the brake hose over the
front of the triple, rather than through the
center. It doesn't bother me either way which
triple we use in terms of performance, but
the orange one does look super cool.
The bike will look different from these photos
when it comes to race time because we've,
once again, teamed up with Airtech Streamlin-
ing in San Diego, who are going to be making
up a new front number board and belly pan that
will be the same you'll be able to buy should
you want to race a Super Duke yourself.
The new
Akrapovic
exhaust is a
beautiful
piece. Every
Super Duke
should
have one.
Late in the afternoon on day three,
this is how she looked.
