Yahoo Autos Brabus and KTM get together again on the $45K limited-edition 1300 R Edition 23 motorcycle
No need to stop going to the well until it runs dry, right? And lately, certain wells — the kind filled with money — are not only not running dry, they're overflowing. This is how we get second round of collaboration between Austrian motorcycle maker KTM and German uber-tuner Brabus. Last year, the duo debuted Brabus' first foray into the two-wheeled world, a KTM 1290 Super Duke R Evo rendered into a limited-edition model rechristened the Brabus 1300 R. Dressed in heaps of carbon fiber, sitting on Brabus' Monoblock Z nine-spoke forged wheels, and Limited to 154 units, it about doubled the price of the base Super Duke and sold out in two minutes. Now, KTM and Brabus are back with the Brabus 1300 R Edition 23, which makes a few detail changes to the formula and expands availability to 290 units.
