The Brabus 1300 R Edition 23 is the German tuner’s second attempt at a modified bike

Last year Brabus announced a link up with KTM that saw the German tuner make its maiden foray into modified motorbikes. The result was the KTM 1290 Super Duke R Evo-based Brabus 1300 R.

Skip forward 12 months and we have Brabus’ second bike – the 1300 R Edition 23.

Now, as you might be able to tell from the name, this is essentially a lightly adapted version of the original bike. There’s even more carbon fibre than last time, the red leather seat has been swapped out for black and there are new side panels, air ducts and mirrors. 

If you remember the previous bike – Brabus didn’t actually make any performance modifications to the base KTM, although considering its 1.3-litre LC8 V-Twin engine already makes 180bhp and 103lb ft of torque as standard, that’s probably fair enough. 

Brabus refers to this Edition 23 as ‘the follow-up’ to its previous effort, but more will be built this time with 145 units in a ‘superblack’ colourway and a further 145 in ‘stealth grey’. Only 144 in total were built last time around, so you’ve a better chance of getting your hands on an Edition 23 if a Brabus bike is on the wishlist…