2022 KTM 890 Adventure R vs Ducati DesertX - Cycle News

We’ve said it a million times before here at Cycle News—the mid-size ADV sector is the game to be in if you’re a manufacturer worth its salt.
KTM’s known this for a few years with the 790/890 Adventure series, as has Triumph with their Tiger 800 and BMW with the 750/850 GS line. Yamaha’s recently joined with the Tenere 700 and Aprilia have 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 as the prototype was 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 they wanted to topple upon release, their Austrian neighbors to the north, KTM and the 890 Adventure R.
We’ve tested the 890 R against pretty much every other mid-size ADV machine over the last few years and guess what? It’s won every time, so will it win again against the Ducati?

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