It’s a stock visual in any 1980s movie montage: A character jumps into a cool sports car, revs the engine, and activates the pop-up headlights. Violating the speed limit inevitably follows.

Thanks to climbing home prices and high mortgage rates, it's been a tough few years for the housing market, leaving many hopeful homebuyers eager to get off the sidelines and into a home.

It’s a harder sell for the humble sports tourer. Nonetheless, there is still enough demand for a more road-orientated tourer motorcycle, and a desire for those to have road-specific ability.

No motorcycle manufacturer has a better off-road pedigree than Austrian specialists KTM and, following the success of its big bore V-twin adventure bikes, its new middleweight parallel twin has ...