When you think of KTM, what rider comes to mind?

Wow, John pumps out my septic tank. That bike he rode in the 80”s was a piece of shit vs the Hondas and Yamahas of the day. Get him and Jojo together and stand back! Btw did I ever tell my Jojo story…..

The first KTM rider to win an AMA National…

Kelly Smith

JH 84

 Has he rode anything else?

1982 TEAM KTM USA

12 Donnie C

141 John F

333 Billy S

KURT NICOLL

1992 TEAM KTM - Mike Fisher

1993 TEAM KTM USA - Cliff Palmer

KEES . . .

Dungey

Musquin

Cairoli

Herlings

In his early days he was on RM85.

AC222 . . .

2017 BAGGETT

There's only one Carioli......only one Cairoli.......Top man Tony on KTM from a painting I was commissioned to produce to celebrate his many titles 👍💪👏🏻👏🏻

Will always be Scott Plessinger for me. In the late 80's into the 90's, he was one of the few riders who kept Scott Summers honest. I believe he won two GNCC titles and two National Hare Scramble titles back then on KTM. We had a small KTM dealership in my town in the late 80's and 90's where I spent a lot of time as a kid. My dad bought my first bike there, a 1991 KTM 80. Been hooked ever since!

Langston, eggens, de reuver. Langston put KTM on the map over here in Holland when I was a kid he would dominate the dutch races. Later the champ KTM team was considered the best team and Eggens became really good on that team as well. Same happened to de Reuver. Got really fast but had some bad luck with injuries. He was really fast on ktm’s

that would be a huge list of 250 rookies that rode for them for 1 or 2 years and then retired

9 Championships

(MX2 2005, 2007; MX1 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; MXGP 2014, 2017)

94 Wins

(24 MX2, 39 MX1, 31 MXGP)

Tony! Tony! Tony! 🇮🇹 

Cairoli jumped to my mind first , but i thought his most exciting racing for me  was on board a yam 

Passing/Taking Searle out  whilst riding with a buckled front wheel , doing quite a bit of that race on the back wheel and showing no mercy. 

 Then of course the 2006 mxdn and heel clickers over finish lines...... Legend!

Joel Smetz

Heinz kinigadner.

2 x world 250 champ, but barely mentioned now days.

as an 11 year old discovering motocross in the mid 80’s I thought his Ktms looked so cool.

no brock sellards...shamefull

https://racerxonline.com/2013/11/27/where-are-they-now-brock-sellards

2 steps forward, 1 step back. They are extremely good at fixing known issues and then screwing up something that was solid. Twin chamber forks to 4cs, keihin carb to mikuni, Carb to TPI, awesome frame to rigid frame

This is the only one that matters. 

Remember when smets came over in 2001 for the wick?  Pretty cool.

Tony Cairoli