EICMA 2023: Kove 800X 4K 

We need to remember that BMW, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha and KTM had far more resources than Kove and could have made these bikes that we've been begging them to make for over a decade and they chose not to, preferring to sell us their heavy and expensive mid size and full size adventure bikes.

THOUSANDS BRAVO TO KOVE FOR THIS CONSTRUCTION!.. 🎉

Loving my Kove 450 Rally, but that 800X is tempting.

The Kove 800 pro rally is at the top of my list. Thanks for covering the Kove stand brilliant

holy f'in shi7, between CF moto and Kove next year is going to be all about decisions - those bikes look amazing and that 450 mx bike is coloured to perfection, damn the market is finally opening up - welcome to the game

Really like the Kove lineup..especially the 800’s. Great video & thank you.

Your EICMA reviews are I think the best and most detailed, thank you.

Your coverage is excellent, thanks!

Job well done, thank you for the update!

Wow epic line up from Kove , Will they come to Australia , We can only hope.

First the Kove 450 Rally and now this 😃🔥 Excellent! Beautiful looking motorcycle 🥰

Great coverage. Thank you. That 800 looks awesome 👍🇦🇺

The single most important change on that 450 Dakar bike is the new engine (which I guess will be available on the street version too). I believe its head is loosely based on MY21+ CRF450R, but Kove managed to simplify that Unicam design even further (CRF450R head has two axles for mounting rocker arms, one for the exhaust and the other for intake finger followers; Kove eliminated the intake side axle by mounting the finger followers onto the exhaust side axle instead). To be honest the price bump on the race model of only roughly €5k is kind of to my surprise, considering all those exotic materials they used to produce some of the parts and the engine being built from scratch (in contrary to the current engine, which is a modified version of an existing design).

excellent styling. Love it

I have two Kove 450's and will have two of these.

3:29 So the Rally/pro version has less weight and more power than the standard version. On one of the Italian channels, there was an interview with the president of Kove at EICMA, who, using the example of Kove 800x Rally, explained how they achieved such a low weight. They made everything they could out of aluminium, including for example the mirrors, which are always steel, parts of the frame, various clamps, literally everything they could was made from aluminium. In addition, from what I understood, the Rally version, has a different engine map with more power, around 90 horsepower. At the same time, it seems to me that with this more power map, the bike does not have road homologation in the EU so it will be sold with a standard map, with the potential to be unlocked after purchase. 9:18 I don't know if this will help anyone, but in Poland one dealer has given prices for several models. All prices include 23% VAT: 450RR - 32900 PLN 450 Rally - 42900 PLN 800x - 42900 PLN (no information which version )

I like the looks of this bike. Will wait for it next year

Very interesting Kove review! Many of us are very excited and hope to find a dealer with the bikes in the USA. I'm most interested in the 800X but the 500X looks pretty good too. The big thing for me is the weight, the real independently confirmed weight, ready to ride with or without gas. It would have been nice if they had followed KTM's thinking with low mounted fuel tanks because makes a big difference in how heavy the bike feels when you ride it, and especially when you have to pick it up...

Overall excellent looking midweight adv bike! I hope to be reliable and quality, and of course to see it soon in Europe!

US prices are going to be 13K for the rally, and 10K for the adventure. With the rally version being notably lighter. Supposedly the bikes presented here at Eicma are their final form. US release summerish.

Well impressed with that 800

If I am not mistaken curb weight includes all fluids. Their website says 185 kg and only lists the non pro. It's wild that two of the bikes (Kove 450 is the other) I am most excited about are from the same fledgling Chinese motorcycle company. Thank you for the videos!

Nice bike, that 800. Not sure about the weight, we'll see ;-) The shift gear looks vulnerable like Aprilia's Tuareg 660. Kove is a brand that could shake up the motorcycle industry with fresh ideas (like your 450 Rally). What they need are good importers and many dealers. Please have a few more videos on your 450 Rally, lovely bike. Günter/Nürnberg

Credit to Kawasaki's ZX4RR to get Kove and apparently CFMOTO making sub 600cc inline 4 sports bikes. I hope Kove's 450RR turns out great and CFMOTO finishes up their 500SR.

It's great to see a chrome moly frame on the 250 Enduro,steel frames are seriously underrated, not sure how the new Triumph 250 MX bike frame will go, but with the rider input maybe they have finaly designed a decent alloy frame as most are far too rigid.

Never heard of Kove before but it seems like a pretty impressive new competitor on the EU market.

Wow, their range escalated quickly. Look like some pretty exiting formulas there.

Nice overview of Kove.

Re-bonjour, Je ne me lasse pas de revoir les vidéos sur la Kove 800x : croisons les doigts et prions pour sa prochaine disponibilité...en France continentale et Outre-mer (Martinique...).

The 500 range look exactly like the benelli 502’s the naked and the trk, the 800 looks great as do the smaller cc naked bikes

Twin front discs on the pro , look nice bikes

I have the Kove 500X, AKA Lexmoto 500x, and to be fair it’s a good bike.

The 800 is great looking and hey the low weight, that’s going to be a winner

Do you know why Kove are not going to be at Motorcycle Live in a few weeks? Is there a UK dealer where I can see bikes? Thanks for the great videos!

Nice to see a design without corners being cut. The first bike looks amazing with it's single disc for weight and a perfect looking seat. Shame about the no passenger pegs on that model but that doesn't appear to be it's purpose. Impressive weight for a twin. Hopefully Ducati can put that new single into a bike like this.

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You covered the 800x super adventure last year EICMA also. Hope it comes to Europe and in the lighter metallic green they have in their promo videos.

My friend is an 800x owner, and this car is like a monster on the street with very strong torque. Like the 450rr, it requires a long waiting period to be delivered due to its high sales volume😂

Wish they would have done the 450 but in adv package. My baseline is my modified Honda Rally 300 and it wins because of the 155kg curb weight. I want 40 ish HP, up to 170 kg adv bike. Who needs 100 HP off or on the road? The CFmoto 450 MT might be it, wish it was 15 kg lighter.

Wow, didn’t know they had a full line of bikes.

Thanks for the updates, one bit of advice: Sometimes you're a bit too close to the bike with the camera

It might be good to know for everybody watching this that this is the KTM 790 engine in this bike there. They seem to have made their own left and right covers for it, but the castings are definitely those of the KTM 790 motor.

My worry with the 800 is the foot pegs will be too far back in relation to seat position for tall riders, pointing toes to the ground. I was disappointed to find this sitting on the Norden 901.

If the 800x is even 190 kgs kerb (the pro version with the tubeless spoke wheels) and it comes to India, I'll definitely consider one. Product might be good but the after sales service will be a big question mark in a big country like mine. CF Moto has a very small presence here but not enough.

2:02 i can see a quickshifter there

Many interesting models there. Some of them are starting to show up in US and I'd like a look at the smaller dual sport and like the 500 scrambler and adventure models. Seems like they are lining up against/targeting similar Honda models? Makes sense - worked for Hyundai when they targeted Honda Accord to start off.

Will the motorcycle be sold in Austria?

the pro 800 had "TCS" decals the first 800 did not, probably some kind of wheel spin or skid stopping adjustability nuisance . did'nt see an ABS ring on the 250 or rear pegs so that may allow it a bit of leeway, looked like a trail level up over the CRF . I do raise my eyebrows a little when manufacturer can not print the weight correctly , did you get to weight your 450 by any chance. good overview Thanks.

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My friend is dealer for Kove and he just test 800X in Tunisia .I wait for his report.

Thx for the video. Somebody claimed, that one can not stand properly on the 800, because your foot touches the exhaust. Can you confirm this?

Hey, can you do a specific Kove 450 Rally, (EU legal version) EICMA-Video?

I'm curious about the 800adv bikes.. but we won't see them here in the USA

Does anyone know whose 799 dohc is in the 800x rally?

If they price it right it might be a good bike. Few comments that I have - T700 weight the same dry ~186kg, it has less power though, at least on a paper. And here I would really like to see somebody put Kove 450 on Dyno to verify 51HP claim, which is great claim, but form videos I have seen a lot of people complain that it doesn't feel like 51HP, so really waiting for someone to do dyno run. Additionally it seems that OEM 800 skid plate is attached directly to engine - which isn't ideal if you are doing any kind of non-paved roads. But if the bike is popular enough aftermarket might come to rescue - similar to Transalp, that doesn't have any decent mounting points from factory.

Wow, if that thing is even 165kg dry it will be on my list.

Hi Andre, are you really intending to switch from the 450 rally to the 800x (rally?)? So the 450 rally is/was not what you've looking for ;-)

thanks for these awesome brand-focused videos, but is it pronounced "Cove" or "Ko-vay"?

Price of the 800 , any idea ?

Pro has twin discs😃👍🇬🇧

Time will tell

A 450 Kove with 800cc motor. I like what I see except for the useless side "handlebars". They are definitely not crashbars. I doubt these bikes will have any aftermarket support...

The Kove 800 rally have the subchasis in aluminium, the pro is iron

My next motorcycle. T7 replacer

All the manufacturers should fear kove there causing a stir..

Nice coverage, but please include a few seconds of the specs in your clips. Thanks.

sell it with cruise control. then ill buy it

Are you completely in love😉

Ok, who wants that 321cc 2 cylinder engine in an ADV 135kg bike?

Like you said, middle-weights these days are as heavy as heavy-weights of less than a d3cade ago. Kove seem to understand the uniccorn trail bike idea. However, until the chinese stop their support for Russia, I will not touch anything from them.

I'm a big fan of KOVE overall. I love the style, look, and can- do attitude displayed by the KOVE bikes. I'm tired of the Xenophobic attitude the West displays towards all things Chinese.

Yamaha Tenere 700 become the benchmark on every mid-capacity engine (500-999 cc) adventure motorcycle released by other manufacturer. IMO the low-middle-heavy weight adventure bike category are incorrect, we should categorize it by it's engine capacity, then it's capability to do light to heavy/very technical off-road course.

They look great, but they're Chinese motorcycles, so how about reliability and parts availability after a few years?

CHINESE 😀😃😄😁😆😆

Looks like an Africa Twin rip off

Africa twin knockoff

won't do communist china bikes

Tubed tyres are a bummer. Wire spoked tubeless rims and tubeless tyres are the right approach. Looks good! TFT looks ridiculous! Royal Enfield 's TFT looks a thousand times better.