Wheelie Machine: Smoked Garage’s KTM 950 SM

If you want good, clean hooliganism: get a supermoto. If you want to crank the crazy up to eleven, get a 942cc supermoto that snacks on corners and dislikes keeping its front wheel on the ground.
With horsepower and newton meters both in the nineties, a dry weight of 421lbs and top-notch WP suspension at both ends, the KTM 950 Supermoto is a hoot to ride. But its geometric looks (typical of older big bore KTMs) aren’t everyone’s cup of Jägertee.
The lads at Smoked Garage in Badung, Bali, are not fans of the angular look. So when their customer Dominique turned up with a 2006 KTM 950 SM and asked what they could do with it, they responded with brutal honesty.
?We were baffled at first,? says Smoked’s Nicko Eigert, ?as it looked so ugly. And we thought, ‘you know what, let us just sell this junk and buy ourselves a BMW R nineT to start with.’?
?Dominique sort of agreed at first?then we had a ride on it, and BOY did she go fast!?
The Smoked crew resolved to forge ahead: ?Once we’d taken all the enduro parts off, it actually looked really nice. We realized this motorcycle is actually a little gem?it’s ugly from the outside but has a beautiful shape from the inside.?
Next, Nicko turned to Sylvain Berneron?AKA Holographic Hammer?to lay down a design that could work on the KTM chassis. ?He has the retro touch that we wanted,? says Nicko, ?and we have worked with him in the past.?
?In two weeks we had our rendering. It was love at ...
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