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Maybe the 400k of bikes are not dirt bikes???

From what I have read… Lots of those bikes are small displacement street bikes that sell in foreign countries. Most are not legal in said countries, since the new EU laws went into effect. I don’t believe that there is a huge supply of the KTM 300’s or 350’s, or other popular models, But I could be wrong. Regardless, you’d think they’d want to move the bikes that are already here and so far the BIG SALE hasn’t started up again yet. Then again, I’m not sure how tied in the US dealers are to the KTM financial situation.

Factory to dealer incentives (the primary vehicle an OEM has at their disposal to lower the price of existing dealer inventory) are paid to the dealer after the bike is retailed. The manufacturer was paid for the bike (by the dealer) when it was originally invoiced. If the OEM is broke, they likely don’t have the cash laying around to pay big FDIs to the dealers. They ceased production for a time this winter. This means nothing was invoicing, so no money has been coming in for quite a while now.

They didn't build bikes from November to March and rumor is there will not be a lot of 2026 bikes available. Dealers are probably not willing to give bikes away if they don't know when they will be resupplied. If you see dealers sitting on 2023/24 then they misjudged the market and should have blown those bikes out months ago.

We have to disagree friend. Constant digs at this sport is that we are never taken seriously, and one of our major spokes people is very bad at public speaking. I have no hate for RC. But I can see how he is bad for the image of our sport where he performs right now, as good as he was for it in his previous capacity. Our sport is supported by multi-billion dollar international corporations, performing to millions of people a year in mult-million dollar stadiums, around the world now, with the athletes literally risking their lives. We can do...

Try Wiseco direct. https://www.wiseco.com/shop/powersports/pistons-powersports/piston-kits…

If Wiseco won't sell direct, contact other big bore shops (Millenium Technologies or Power Seal USA) and see if they sell that piston.

Wasn’t exactly a “split second decision”. The flagger had enough time to smell the flesh of Chance’s arm burning below him. Plenty of time to realize what was going on. I can’t believe some of you guys are defending him.

I would have flung that bIke off Chase like RC tossing that bIke off Stew. And if i got in trouble and was told my flagging sservices were no llonger nneeded, I'm fine wwith that

Chance and his bike were both off the track or right on the edge. I would have quickly flipped the bike off of him to keep the exhaust from burning him (which it looked like it was), then flagged immediately after. I would have handled it differently if the bike and Chance were still on the track though. The flagger for the Web crash was an idiot. Looked like he was BS'ing with people next to him on the side of the track.

Agreed, picks up a bit but watching kids get hammered on by their parents for taking bad lines and not jumping the jumps gets old pretty quick.

I started watching it but it was so slow i had to turn it off. If i dont get sucked in the first few minutes ill turn it off.