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I'll admit the blue frame does limit you more compared to a white frame, but the orange factory ktm frame that everyone seems to love is no different in that respect.
Funny enough, I have the white frame (heritage edition) and when ever I see the blue frame I always think I prefer it.
I still think this is their best looking one to date
Then you will be happy with the 2025 look! 😉
you must know something everyone else doesn't
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Billy Bolt's color scheme from this year is just clean and sweet.
I'd like to know where you can buy that blue rear fender. RMATVMC only offers white, yellow, black and grey for the 24's.
I think its black with blue sticker?
It's not a 2025 anything, if it's already on the market in March 2024. It's a 2024 model. Period.
Ok. Weird place to plant your flag but ok I’m sure everyone will get on board with you.
VIN number might disagree with you.
I've been looking for one too. The GP bikes also have the rear blue fender, I think they look really good!
Think you can get navy blue directly from Husky, at least on some models
If you can find them post here, I looked on AOMC also. Same colors as RM.
Last time I looked you could get one for the older generations but not the latest gen.
So hold on, if I look at my calendar, which is here on my desk, it says 2024. I can go to buy a motorcycle, from the future, that's actually manufactured in February 2024, and it's actually stamped on the frame, that it's from 2025? Magical! People can be brainwashed! It's a 2024. Just marketing. Not from the future.
You understand that the VIN indicates the designated model year and NOT the year of manufacture?
You can call it a 3033 model and use the VIN to look up the date of manufacture, no time machine required.
Many (most?) vehicles are manufactured in the calendar year prior to their designated model year (autos, boats, bikes, etc.).
For sure, totally confusing to novice or newbies! I'm well aware it's done, doesn't make it right. It's purely a marketing thing, give ignoramus' that feeling, 'it's from the future'. It's just not! 2024 models have just been released, in reality.
Sounds like you're looking for the early MS Windows designation - 1.0, 2.0, etc rather than Windows 98, 2000, etc.
I guess Vista, XP, etc., would really get you stewing?
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Pretty much all 2024 bikes were available in 2023 not just KTM. The auto manufacturers do the same thing every year...
you really sound confused on how things work. It's not marketing as you suggest. It's the next years model, aka different than the current. Doesn't matter when they release it. Sometimes its early and sometimes late. It business guy.
Again weird hill to die on. It’s just a number. lol. Do you practice what you preach? Say you have a 2023 yz, do you actually call it a 2022 when talking about it?
Welcome to the future...
There have been times that a truck came out almost 2 years before the model year they gave it. Ford introduced the 99 Superduty in late 97 and started building them in Jan of 98.
The 1997 F150 had a similar extend early release. They were building the 1997 models in 1995 and in dealers by January of 96. But they were still building the older style is other factories. So it was possible to buy a 1996 F150 that was built AFTER a 1997 model was built. So technically You bought a truck that was built more recently but was a year older.
I'm pretty sure Chevy/GM have done similar things.
Just think of it as a certain model. Not really from the future, just another part of its name.
And then if you start taking those vehicles apart , you start to see that the parts they were built with were made a year or more before the vehicle itself. And as You get farther into each component You go back in time more and more.
There are people on Youtube that test powertools and open them up to show the parts inside. And often a current model year tool is made up of parts that are a few years old.
So really Your 2024 bike might have been put together in 2023, with parts made in 2021 and 22.
OK, so in the UK, many guys will order parts, based on the details on their V5 form. Which shows 'first registered'. I have a 2024 EXC, it's registered in June 2023. I order, say plastics for example, as the paperwork says 2023. I get plastics for a 2023. Nothing fits.
It's all marketing. Bike built in 2024, it's a 2024 model. New comers to our sports, this is a mess. KTM released '2025' models in March this year. Not 2025 at all.
Not everyone lives in a third world swamp populated with room-temperature IQ humanoids, so this isn't a universal issue.
The VIN is what they should use to identify the bike for replacement parts; they assign it for a reason.
I go to the local auto dealer to get parts for my truck and they want the VIN to make sure I get the correct part because there can be mid-model changes, regardless of the year it was built.
It's really not that complicated.
I've got another shocker for you, 250's are really only 249 CC's and 450s are 449 CC's
Polaris has a 1000XP and a Turbo 1000XP the regular 1000 is 999CC's and the Turbo is 920CC's.
Just like how most model years are not the year the bike was built, most sizes are also not the exact CC of the engine. And by Your logic they are not true 125,250 or 450's.
Its one of the first things I learned while fixing up a Honda minitrail when I was 5ish years old. That bikes were generally made the year before their model year. And that You could figure it out by looking at the VIN .Hondas were nice because they have the decal with the model year and VIN to find out the date it was built too.
It is common knowledge . And really most people who make the mistake of buying the wrong year part one time, will have it explained to them and move on with their lives.
It might be more of an issue when a bike is 15 years old and You are the 12th owner and got it with a bill of sale written on an empty beer can. But even then, after You find out how it works , You will be ok . The entire manufacturing industry has been doing it this way for longer than I have been alive.
First it's "the factory doesn't call it a .5, it's a factory edition!". Now it's "even though the factory calls it a 2025, it's a 2024!". Which is it? When will you stop caring about this so much?
I think you’re just telling in yourself. Everyone else seems to know what year there bike is and has no problem ordering parts.
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