KTM 690 Rally Spied

Stroll into a fully stocked KTM dealer with your wallet wide open demanding the most expensive machine in the range and you won’t be riding away on a fire-breathing 1390 Super Duke R Evo but the single-cylinder 450 Rally Replica—a mouthwatering machine but one that carries an insane price of around $40,000. But soon you’ll be able to get something with a similar style at a more manageable price in the form of the upcoming 690 Rally that’s revealed in these spy photos.

Even if you have the funds for the 450 Rally Replica, you’re out of luck. KTM only made 100 examples for 2025 and they’re long since sold out. But most of us don’t need the real rally-winning potential that comes with the 450 Rally Replica, and the 690 Rally promises to bring a similar style and hefty dose of genuine off-road ability within reach of mass-market customers.

Seen in near-showroom ready form undergoing final tests—a reassuring sight after months in limbo for KTM as the company battled to fend off bankruptcy—the 690 Rally is clearly based on the mechanical components of the existing 690 Enduro R. Look from the midsection of the bike back and it’s near-identical to that machine, with the same seat and tail, rear wheel and swingarm. Only the slightly incongruous presence of passenger footpegs on purpose-made hangers marks a notable difference at this end of the bike, showing that despite its competition-inspired styling, the 690 Rally is intended to have some adventure-touring ability.

Move to the front, though, and the differences that mark out the 690 Rally from the Enduro R are immediately clear. While the fork, brakes, wheel, and front fender are shared across both models, the Rally gains a transparent front cowl identical to that of the ultraexpensive 450 Rally Replica, including the same stacked headlights separated by a bar of LED running lights. Below that are new side cowls, again styled to resemble the units used on the 450 Rally Replica, and we can see fuel fillers on each side, leading to translucent white tanks sandwiched between the rider’s knees and the cylinder head. That means there’s a total of three tanks on the 690 Rally, as it will also have the underseat tank of the 690 Enduro R, accessed via a filler at the back of the bike, as that tank is built into the seat unit itself.

The underseat carries 3.6 gallons, and while the side-mounted tanks look smaller than the wide, lower-slung ones on the 450 Rally Replica, they’re still likely to give the bike a total capacity of around double that figure. Perhaps due to the proximity to the left-hand tank, the exhaust—routed like the 690 Enduro R’s—gets a more extensive heat shield, but the header and muffler appear otherwise identical, indicating that the engine tune is the same.

That means we can expect a peak of 74 hp from the 693cc single, and while the extra bodywork and fuel tanks will increase the Rally’s weight compared to the 326-pound Enduro R, it’s still going to be much lighter than a typical adventure bike. That means performance, both on road and away from the asphalt, should be strong. It won’t be as light as the exotic 450 Rally Replica, of course (that bike comes in at 306 pounds) but the bigger engine means more power and substantially more torque.

Then there’s the price, of course. Given that all the main components are taken straight from the $12,999 690 Enduro R, it’s clear that the 690 Rally will be vastly cheaper than the limited-edition 450 Rally Replica. It could even undercut the $15,799 890 Adventure R. Importantly for KTM, as the company aims to get back on its feet financially, the 690 Rally will also leverage the brand’s heritage and its off-road roots, while minimizing upfront R&D and tooling costs thanks to the large number of components it shares with existing production models.