2007 KTM 450 EXC
In the past, the vast majority of dual purpose bikes were made mainly to be used on paved streets. The manufacturers started with street legal models and tried to adapt them to be useful on dirt trails. Surveys showed that a lot of people used their dual purpose bikes mainly on streets, so they figured this was the logical way to go. However, this just didn't work for those who really wanted to spend some time riding these bikes as dirt bikes. This led to people taking regular dirt bikes and trying to convert them to make them more street legal (but usually not quite perfectly legal) by adding such things as mirrors, lights, and horns. Usually this was enough to get a person a license plate. The 2007 KTM 450 EXC is a dual purpose dirt bike that gets it right.
Since people were already using these dirt bikes on the road after making small modifications, and they were holding up well, they finally decided to start with the dirt bike and modify it to make a version that would be street legal all over, without having to make after market modifications. Most people will agree that in the review of the 2007 KTM 450 EXC that they did a pretty good job. They added EPA-friendly emissions controls, street-legal lighting, and DOT-approved turn signals, mirrors, and horns, and outfitted them with DOT-approved knobbies for tires.
Some of 2007 KTM EXC reviews will mention a few problems with the design. For example, the mirror can get in the way when you stand up unless you tilt it so that it really wouldn't be that useful if you were driving on the road. Also, the left rear turn signal gets in the way as you get on and off the bike, meaning that it gets knocked off and broken pretty easily. These were the main things that were noticed about the street gear that had been added to the dirt bike.
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