2025 KTM 790 Duke Breaks Cover

While KTM’s financial woes might have hit its motorsport division significantly, the brand’s huge bike portfolio continues to move on. The latest to get revived, albeit in a very subtle way is the 790 Duke, fondly called the “Scalpel”. For 2025, while KTM has not tweaked the mechanicals of the bike, nor have its hardware components been replaced for more premium options. The Austrian brand has instead decided to give it a nice nifty technological upgrade, by replacing the 4.5-inch TFT cluster with a bigger 5-inch TFT screen.

With this new cluster, the KTM 790 Duke gets new functionalities like a telemetry screen to track the bike’s performance, and anti-wheelie mode with six-adjustable settings. One can also now have access to KTM’s Demo mode where the brand gives you access to all the optional features for up to 1,500 km, post which those features will get disabled. Speaking of optional features, the KTM 790 Duke has gained new ride modes – Rain, Street, and Sport along with Track and Performance modes, as standard. All modes get their own dedicated throttle and traction control settings. To control the settings on the new TFT screen, KTM also had to update the switchgear. 

On the aesthetic front, the “Scalpel” 's iconic sharp and chiselled design has remained the same. The headlight cowl has been revised to look more sharp. Lastly, distinguishing the new 2025 KTM 790 Duke from earlier models are new colour options – Black Orange and All-Black. 

Now the 2025 KTM 790 Duke won’t come to India anytime soon, for we just got its elder sibling, the KTM. 890 Duke R. But given the large number of unsold bikes KTM has piled up back in Austria, will we see a couple of last-generation 790 Dukes bikes launch here in 2025 at a discounted price? Only time will answer this.