Everybody is talking about Kove and many are excited about the Rally 450 and want to ride it. The presence of the Chinese company at the last EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, last year, was well noticed at a time when some of the major manufacturers boycotted the industry's most important trade show. The real novelties of the show could be counted on the fingers of one hand. So the appearance of the Chinese company, founded just six years ago and operating today with more than 600 employees, was quite striking.
The other reason for the enthusiasm is probably rooted in our teenage years, when we would flip through the magazines on the newsstands that carried pictures of the African Dakar Rally. Almost everyone who rode off-road motorcycles dreamed at least once of participating in the Dakar, a dream out of reach for budget reasons for most of us.
The Kove 450 Rally puts its finger right on this sore spot. Especially at the price of $US8,999 for the basic version that looks like a twin to Marc Coma's 2015 KTM Rally Replica. Suddenly, the
