I bought a new 2018 KTM 250sx-f from a dealer when it first came in a few weeks ago. I put my name on the list waiting for it to come in and was the first to get one from my dealer. I have about 5 hours on it. I literally haven’t even tipped the bike over or any sort of crash at all before this. I was racing coming down a fast section of the track on the inside of someone trying to make a pass. He came over on me trying to shut the door coming into the next turn. No problem, just hit the brake right? I went to hit my back brake to check up a little and there was no brake, it didn’t work. I clipped his back wheel and went flying off the bike. I broke the L4 vertebrae in my back a bunch of hematomas, torn muscles etc. spent 3 nights in the hospital for internal bleeding and am now on my third week of missed work. Come to find out the problem with the brake was whoever assembled the bike put the brake line in the ring spot and it was touching my exhaust. Which obviously eventually burnt a hole through it. Couldn’t have happened at a worse time.
Ok so after that long story I guess what I’m wondering is:
Who assemblies that part of the bike is it KTM or my local dealer?
Has anyone else had this issue?
Do you think there is any chance they will do anything for me? At least give me the new parts to fix what was broken in the crash, maybe more.
Is it even worth looking into further?
What should my next steps be?
I also wanted to post this so other people can be on the lookout for this and hopefully avoid what happened to me. Thanks