KTM's financial woes

I did a regular enduro on a KTM 200 XC-W and thought I was going to die lol. (Little Brown Jug Enduro in SC)

 

Tempting... this, or a Street Triple 765 RS? Hmmmm

 

It's like Enduro, but one notch harder.

 

Doing "trials bike" type manuevering techniques on a full sized dirt bike. Events like the Erzberg rodeo or the Tn Red Bull Knockout would give you an idea of what these riders are capable of and have to endure. The world level guys are traveling the globe to compete.
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/event-series/fim-hard-enduro-world-championship?origin=serp_auto

 

I am in the minority I am sure, but I owned a Street Triple 765 RS and was thoroughly unimpressed to be honest. I had a Duke 790 for a short while and it was 10x more fun.

 

Sea To Sky is a good one. Romaniacs is probably the hardest due to the length of the race over a week. Erzberg is probably the hardest individual track.

 

The add some crash protection and maybe a tooth on the rear sprocket. They have been doing the special editions for a few years now. They’re cool IMO. Skip through the video. Too much to watch.

 

To watch someone like Carson Brown get gassed on an older non counterbalanced KTM really magnifies how physically & mentally demanding Romaniacs and events like it, are. Motorbike gymnists!

 

Hard enduro just seems like a good way to destroy a motorcycle.

 

the LBJ and other south east/FL enduros are long, often hot, and demanding events. Worse if you aren't in darn good riding shape, and have a bike that has suspension that is plusher than a bike set up for MX .. but most of us wouldn't make it a lap of a real hard endruo (i know i wouldn't and do pretty good in typical enduros). google "Erzberg" or "Tennessee Knockout"..

 

Didn't he race an old Kawi KDX 2 stroke at TN knockout this year ? saw a youtube on that recently. maybe it was last year.

 

Roadracing isnt any different. The bikes are tools not investment mediums.

 

yes... all of those guys near the top make riding seem easy.
OEMs love showing someone like Pol Tarres launching a Tenere up a vertical climb or Graham Jarvis sending a full sized dirtbike over his yard shed or a riding the top of a barricade for 20 yards. Im convinced they have sold alot of bikes with those viral type vids.
Carson Brown can ride a DRz or XRL like its setup for SX.

 

Roadracing doesn't require launching the bike over obstacles.

 

The skill needed to win the FIM Hard Enduro World Championship rivals GP in competitiveness. 99.9% of good competitive dirt riders would be lucky to even qualify for those events.

 

no but when you're at the pointy end of a roadrace grid you are pushing the limits of traction that could result in the bike being launched, catapulted, or coming back to your pit in a tractor bucket or on a recovery trailer.

 

True, but in roadracing most of the bikes finish unscathed. From what I've seen of HE the opposite is true.

 

No picture of MM93 yet?

 

"The hell did you just say?"