Enter a bike that currently vies for top honours in the Sport Touring class, KTM’S utterly superb 1290 Super Duke GT. Photo credit: Bjorn Moreira / ZA Bikers. RAD KTM in Rivonia are running a brilliant campaign on the 2020 1290 Super Duke GT as we speak, where, for R290000, they will put you on a GT, kitted out with Power Parts panniers and Aprilia's Tuono V4 1100 versus KTM's revised Super Duke 1290 R. We ride the pair through city, canyon, and racetrack pavement to find out which is best. Related: Suzuki GSX S1000 GT (2022) Review. I had placed the Suzuki squarely at the top of my must-have list until my time recently spent on the KTM 1290 Super Duke GT had me questioning all my life decisions. KTM has made a machine that can truly decimate road miles and twisty mountain curves in relative comfort all day, every day. KTM’s 1290 Super Duke GT is a sport tourer that checks all the right boxes. It has a powerful, torque-rich, visceral V-twin, high-tech yet easy-to-use electronics, transcendent 13DlM.