Dungey's new KTM...

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Adam43 12/2/2011 11:01pm
12/2/2011 11:01pm
That's one ugly motorcycle. Reminds me of this:

Electro21 12/2/2011 11:20pm
12/2/2011 11:20pm
kopfjaeger wrote:
Mine calls it a "suit" when she wants to get under my skin.....makes my skin crawl....might as well call it a costume!!!!!!
Mine does call it a "costume".

That bike looks so good. Can't wait for the season to start to see how he does on it.
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Lightning78 12/2/2011 11:20pm
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Outsider wrote:
I bet James is stoked he doesn't have the worst bike in the top 5 anymore.... sure looks pretty though!Whistling
Where did you read that the ktm was the worst of the top 5? Every magazine I saw praised the bike the yamaha and Honda finished behind the ktm....well at least the yamaha
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plowboy 12/2/2011 11:31pm
12/2/2011 11:31pm
Very sexy imho. Having said that....I sit in the garage and get woody looking at my 2002 YZ250F and my venerable old '88 600R. Maybe I'm just too easily stimulated. I really do hope that RD puts the pumpkin up front this year...I like him, respect his team and admire KTM for their customer focused approach.

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R-acer 12/3/2011 4:23am
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that bike is pretty ugly IMO
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BKiller 12/3/2011 4:42am
12/3/2011 4:42am
That's a bike I would keep in the living room just to look at!
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burnside 12/3/2011 4:44am
12/3/2011 4:44am
Serious question . . anyone getting tempted to buy an orange yet?

Will be interesting to see how/if their brand perception changes over the next 2 years.
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machine 12/3/2011 5:12am
12/3/2011 5:12am
burnside wrote:
Serious question . . anyone getting tempted to buy an orange yet? Will be interesting to see how/if their brand perception changes over the next 2...
Serious question . . anyone getting tempted to buy an orange yet?

Will be interesting to see how/if their brand perception changes over the next 2 years.
they are great bikes and i've have all the brands.
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Outsider 12/3/2011 6:12am
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Outsider wrote:
I bet James is stoked he doesn't have the worst bike in the top 5 anymore.... sure looks pretty though!Whistling
Lightning78 wrote:
Where did you read that the ktm was the worst of the top 5? Every magazine I saw praised the bike the yamaha and Honda finished...
Where did you read that the ktm was the worst of the top 5? Every magazine I saw praised the bike the yamaha and Honda finished behind the ktm....well at least the yamaha
Dungey isn't riding a production bike... I don't think any of the top 5 will be on current year model production bikes.
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bwh998 12/3/2011 6:15am
12/3/2011 6:15am
burnside wrote:
Serious question . . anyone getting tempted to buy an orange yet? Will be interesting to see how/if their brand perception changes over the next 2...
Serious question . . anyone getting tempted to buy an orange yet?

Will be interesting to see how/if their brand perception changes over the next 2 years.
either the ktm, or maybe a gas gas.
Sheriff245 12/3/2011 7:05am
12/3/2011 7:05am
That's the best looking KTM I've seen. I'm not fond of the new shrouds, liked the 2011 ones better. The sleek front fender and straight/orange rear make a huge difference. The older model's rear end looked like a trials bike.
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JCRF217 12/3/2011 7:08am
12/3/2011 7:08am
Looks like Ktm followed Honda and went with the single cam.
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bullpen58 12/3/2011 8:45am
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Bike looks good to me.....but looks don't win championships.
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blair683 12/3/2011 8:53am
12/3/2011 8:53am
Cycle world rated this bike dead last this month they had a 4 page spread of testing the 2012 bikes this steel framed electric start dinosaur came dead last well actually it came in second from last right in front of its grandson the "350"
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Jdirrrty 12/3/2011 9:10am
12/3/2011 9:10am
Who reads Cycle world?
Paul Buckley 12/3/2011 9:13am
12/3/2011 9:13am
I like it, wonder why they don't have an aluminum frame yet.
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OW38B 12/3/2011 9:14am
12/3/2011 9:14am
velocitygear wrote:
Doubting the ktm means doubting roger de coster...

And im a honda guy Smile
What has this Roger DeCoster guy ever done in this sport? Whistling
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fgb729 12/3/2011 9:27am
12/3/2011 9:27am
I love the way it looks, but I like last years models the most.

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jtiger12 12/3/2011 9:29am
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JCRF217 wrote:
Looks like Ktm followed Honda and went with the single cam.
Agree. I said that in a post about a month or so back and got chastized by the bike nazis on here. Apparently, it is nothing like hondas design, cept for it being a single cam.
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blair683 12/3/2011 9:52am
12/3/2011 9:52am
Who reads cycle world? I guess enough people to keep it in business for 25 years. I am a Dungey fan but for some reason you guys are hiding behind the fact that KTM was great in the 80's, and for some reason they chose to stay in the 80's while all of the other top brands chose to move on with technology. In my opinion I say this bike will make Dungey a solid third place rider. But then again I am sure KTM will do whatever Dungey wants so if he doesn't like the bike the first few rounds they will probably figure something out.
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IceMan446 12/3/2011 10:05am
12/3/2011 10:05am
Worst front fender and number plate combo. I like how clean the bike is though, not too many stickers and sponsor stuff covering up the bike.
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LowPsi 12/3/2011 10:14am
12/3/2011 10:14am
Jdirrrty wrote:
Who reads Cycle world?
250,000 readers....CW is the best
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Shawn142 12/3/2011 10:17am
12/3/2011 10:17am
I had no idea WP really meant White Power. I guess KTM hadn't done much research into the American market before they named that suspension company.
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Tumblin 12/3/2011 10:21am
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plowboy wrote:
Very sexy imho. Having said that....I sit in the garage and get woody looking at my 2002 YZ250F and my venerable old '88 600R. Maybe I'm...
Very sexy imho. Having said that....I sit in the garage and get woody looking at my 2002 YZ250F and my venerable old '88 600R. Maybe I'm just too easily stimulated. I really do hope that RD puts the pumpkin up front this year...I like him, respect his team and admire KTM for their customer focused approach.
^^^ works for me to.
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ATKpilot99 12/3/2011 11:22am
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blair683 wrote:
Cycle world rated this bike dead last this month they had a 4 page spread of testing the 2012 bikes this steel framed electric start dinosaur...
Cycle world rated this bike dead last this month they had a 4 page spread of testing the 2012 bikes this steel framed electric start dinosaur came dead last well actually it came in second from last right in front of its grandson the "350"
The Husky was last then the KTM 350 then the 450.
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roost251 12/3/2011 11:41am
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Paul Buckley wrote:
I like it, wonder why they don't have an aluminum frame yet.
because they feel thay can make the steelie work. Rich Taylor said on a Pulp MX podcast that they the current alum. frame bike are just as good now as the old steel frames were "back in the day". He also said how tempermental they are and how the slightest thing can really affect their handling. personally i hope they stay Cromo and never switch to alum.
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roost251 12/3/2011 11:44am
12/3/2011 11:44am
burnside wrote:
Serious question . . anyone getting tempted to buy an orange yet? Will be interesting to see how/if their brand perception changes over the next 2...
Serious question . . anyone getting tempted to buy an orange yet?

Will be interesting to see how/if their brand perception changes over the next 2 years.
hell yes and I am a die hard honda guy. Call me old school though because i will be looking a getting a smoker. I never thought i would want a KTM but they are building and devolping the bikes that people want. I know when I graduate i will be looking real hard at a ktm.
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RaceFace 12/3/2011 11:45am
12/3/2011 11:45am
jhansen510 wrote:
Soon as he gets a win on that thing everybody will be singing a different tune.
brlatm wrote:
^^^^^^This........ Everyone will say the KTM is the way to go, JS7 and the Yamaha look akward, CR22 and the Honda look slow in the whoops...
^^^^^^This........ Everyone will say the KTM is the way to go, JS7 and the Yamaha look akward, CR22 and the Honda look slow in the whoops, RV2 and the Kawi look like the compression and rebound are way off and the engineers at Kawi have no idea how to set up a bike. Or the Experts here on Vital will say its just a fluke and it never should have happened.
I think it might be a different tune if he wins a bunch of SX races, since he won just once on the Suzuki in 2011. If it takes him forever to find a win the KTM fans are going to be wondering why he sucks so bad on this awesome looking bike.

If Dungey is visibly off his pace of last year, will the KTM fans be objective about it? Or will it be blamed on him?
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fader418 12/3/2011 11:56am
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bullpen58 wrote:
Bike looks good to me.....but looks don't win championships.
or races...
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sec114 12/3/2011 11:57am
12/3/2011 11:57am
jasonv43 wrote:
I just went from 6 to midnight!!!
well im at maybe 6:30 here. but im also color blind, so go figure. haha!!

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