Anticipation can be a dangerous thing. For a couple of years before its official launch we’d been teased by images and specs of the wild and radical KTM X-Bow to such an extent that by the time we finally got our hands on one last summer we were expecting big things. It delivered on one level; the build quality and finish were superb and far beyond what we have come to expect from this minimalist class and it rode beautifully too, but there was no spark to really light our fire. Trouble was, there was just too much civility, and as we said at the time it never truly bears its fangs, it lacked the in-your-face adrenalin hit of the likes of the Ariel Atom or Caterham R500.