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If you are are a vet rider the 350F is the dream machine. The KTM450F is bike of the year even without EFI. How and why would you not drop the jap bikes and go with a mx only company?
After 6 years buying Kawasaki's and 11 years buying Honda's, I will never buy a jap bike again. KTM is a motocross company. Not just a motorcycle company.
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How about the year Grant Langston and Ryan Hughes went 1st and 2nd in 2003 125 series, Langston won the Championship that year giving KTM their only National Championship to date. Yes, KTM was close through the Lites Supercross series winning many races, but as you posted, the closest KTM ever came to winning a Supercross title was when Josh Hansen tied Langston for the Championship and Langston took it with 1 more main event win.
2003 thru 2006 was the strongest KTM has ever been in the USA. All of this winning was done in the 125/250F classes.
2011 could be the return of KTM to it's winning ways. They're going to have some really good riders next year and their 250F is really good, so were going to have to wait and see if KTM can regain that Championship momentum. Roger DeCoster is a great Team Manager, so it was a good move on KTM part to put him in charge.
I'm personally not sold on the 350 in the 450 class. Non-pro riders love the 350 because the 450 is a lot of motorcycle for the normal racer, but a top level professional needs as much power as possible because they can use it. Just like this years Outdoor races, there will be good tracks for the 350 and there will be bad tracks for the 350. But having it's good and bad points, not to sure if the 350 will be able to help a rider put himself into a good position to win a Championship.
But like I said, we will have to wait and see. Good Luck KTM and RD.
I'm (especially after watching Cairolis 350(?) at Lierop this morning) not convinced that his bike is a 350. That thing was just tracking and was walking away from all the 450's in the whooped out beach sand of Lierop . There's very few deeper , rougher , and more power robbing tracks in the world than Lierop and the 350 smoked the field. The 350 was even 1st and 2nd in moto 2.
Here's a story for you and take it how you want to, but when Mike Alessi was in Europe Mike and Anthony were riding together and Anthony's bike was much faster and pulled stronger. When Alessi asked to ride Cairioli bike, Anthony (or should I say his team) wouldn't let Mike ride his bike.
It's legal to change the displacement in Europe, but it's not legal to change the displacement here in the USA. So it's not like KTM is doing anything wrong if they did make their 350 into a .....?, but it would hurt them through their marketing if anyone knew these.
I'm sure you know the sound of Mike Alessi's bike by now and let me just say this, Anthony Carioli bike sounds nothing like it. It's has a much deeper and throatier sound than Mike's. Maybe this is the reason these two riders have had much different results through out the year.
So KTM USA could bore Alessi's bike if they really wanted to. Assuming the AMA rule book that is posted online for 2010 MX isn't a lie.....
There is no lie's in the AMA Rule book, you just need to realize KTM homologated a 350cc machine to race in the 450 class.
In motorsports, Homologation refers to the approval process a vehicle must go through to race in a given league or series. The regulations and rules that must be met are generally set by the series' sanctioning body. The word is derived from the Latin homologare for "agree".
How difficult is it to get a bike approved? Are we talking 100K, 200K?
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How the h-ll can you tell the size of Cairolis engine by watching a video? Just listening to someones voice on video/phone/irl makes a huge difference.
I've seen and heard his bike irl and it sounds very different from the 450's. I could however not tell that differnce by watching a video.
The soundlevels are different in GP's and AMA nationals, so they should sound different.
I don't know if the use the same videocameras either, but obviously you're the expert in that area...
How the h-ll can you tell the size of Cairolis engine by watching a video? Just listening to someones voice on video/phone/irl makes a huge difference.
I've seen and heard his bike irl and it sounds very different from the 450's. I could however not tell that differnce by watching a video.
The soundlevels are different in GP's and AMA nationals, so they should sound different.
I don't know if the use the same videocameras either, but obviously you're the expert in that area...
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