Interesting, bikes at Southwick

2 ktms were 2 strokes too

The KTM/Husky discrepancy is the most interesting.

You also have to take into account the amount of bikes entered by brand. If you look at a roster sheet, there are more YZ250fs in the 250 class than any other bike. And in the 450 class, there are a lot of ktms.

tcallahan707 wrote:

The KTM/Husky discrepancy is the most interesting.

That is weird. Wondering...does KTM have a better contingency pay out compared to Husky?

tcallahan707 wrote:

The KTM/Husky discrepancy is the most interesting.

jeffro503 wrote:

That is weird. Wondering...does KTM have a better contingency pay out compared to Husky?

Very interesting indeed because the Husky looks way better...

It would be a better comparison if it showed a ratio of breakdowns for each brand.....ie how many breakdowns per brand vs how many in the race. That would probably explain the husky/ktm difference

Andy_Greenney wrote:

It would be a better comparison if it showed a ratio of breakdowns for each brand.....ie how many breakdowns per brand vs how many in the race. That would probably explain the husky/ktm difference

Add up each of the above lists and you will get 40 for each class......

I thought I read on Vital that the YZ450F is a blue pig and Pros don't race it?

And Southwick is not too deep. It would be interesting how many bikes would go out in the deep wet sand like Lommel.

Where's the list of DNF because of mechanical

David934 wrote:

And Southwick is not too deep. It would be interesting how many bikes would go out in the deep wet sand like Lommel.

That is what i have wondered about too.

It's not like Southwick is a bottomless sandpit and it was dry except in the last moto.

That table is also a DNF table. Not a mechanical DNF table.

Motofinne wrote:

That table is also a DNF table. Not a mechanical DNF table.

It's just a list of what brands were in the final motos not a DNF table.

It's a bike breakdown list, not a list of bikes "breaking down"

tcallahan707 wrote:

The KTM/Husky discrepancy is the most interesting.

jeffro503 wrote:

That is weird. Wondering...does KTM have a better contingency pay out compared to Husky?

The Huskys are harder to get and less dealers will offer you a deal on the bike because of it.

I posted this in a thread the other day but I've been told by my local KTM dealer that they will never sell a KTM for under MSRP because they're only allocated a certain number of bikes per year and they sell all of them. I can only imagine that Huskys are worse seeing as its harder to find a dealer and there are less of them made.

Yamaha and KTM both have solid contingency programs.

I think the KTM/Husky 450 is the best 450 "race ready" bike you can buy; lightest, pretty much the most powerful, electric start, and great components (air fork is also decent, which I'd be curious how many guys are running a spring fork/SSS conversion kit). The YZ250F just handles really well, makes insane power, and there's a ton of data/info on how to make them run well.