The 2025 KTM 450 RALLY REPLICA Brings Major Updates to the Dunes

MURRIETA, CA – April 24, 2024 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – With 235 Dakar stage wins and an impressive 19 Dakar titles, it’s clear that KTM has established itself as a dominant force. The KTM 450 RALLY REPLICA has played a significant role in securing 10 of those Dakar Rally titles, making it the most successful model in the competition’s history. The bike has become synonymous with Rally Raid Championships. For 2025, it sets its sights on even more victories, boasting its most extreme refresh to date.

Holding the accolade as the most successful motorcycle in Dakar Rally history. From Dakar Championship titles to Malle Moto privateers, it is the go-to machine when it comes to multi-stage rally racing.

For 2025, the KTM 450 RALLY REPLICA has undergone its most major update since 2020. With a new powerplant, sharper bodywork, and refined chassis developed by KTM Factory Racing, it is the closest version of a production Factory Racing machine there has ever been.

At its heart sits a reworked version of the championship 450 cc fuel-injection motor found in the KTM Motocross and Enduro stables. Fitted with a newly designed SOHC cylinder head, a reinforced clutch, and a strengthened gearbox, it is a feast of high-end hardware engineered to deliver unrivaled power and reliability. Two separate radiators take care of cooling instead of the previous single unit. This ensures more cooling power and efficiency for the engine.

These are now mounted to a new frame which is welded by hand in the KTM Motorsports production facility. Assembled from laser-cut, hydro-formed sections, the frame features specifically calculated longitudinal and torsional flex parameters compared to the previous steel trellis frame construction but maintains exceptional rider feedback, energy absorption, and straight-line stability. This is supported by a new hollow, die-cast aluminum swingarm designed to offer optimal stiffness and reliability at the lowest possible weight.

At the rear, a self-supporting 16-liter fuel tank doubles as the subframe with two additional 9 and 9.5-liter tanks up front, driven by two separate fuel pumps which can be activated independently from either the front, or the rear tanks. This pushes the total fuel-carrying capacity of the 2025 KTM 450 RALLY REPLICA to approximately 34.5 liters, making it capable of dominating the longest rally stages.

From a handling perspective, the 2025 KTM 450 RALLY REPLICA is fitted with the latest WP PRO…