What's up with Langston's KTM team?

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Edited Date/Time 9/13/2012 7:22pm
One minute it's "KTM factory support," the next it's Matthes hinting that they may not be around. Anyone know what's up?
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DanDunes818 9/13/2012 11:14am
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More problems than just KTM support. It looks like Witt is out and that may possibly spell the end.
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ab5772 9/13/2012 11:20am
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Bummer for Les Smith if true. I was looking forward to seeing what he could do on a good bike next year.
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ML512 9/13/2012 11:23am
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Dang they were talking with metty too. I hope they get things figured out.
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Jesse318NW 9/13/2012 11:35am
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ab5772 wrote:
One minute it's "KTM factory support," the next it's Matthes hinting that they may not be around. Anyone know what's up?
I hate to speculate as I have yet to see a press release, but anytime you hear about a "passionate guy fronting as much money as necessary to have a competitive team" you have to be skeptical. It sounded like the team banked on Witt most of the year. These guys didn't get rich by dumping endless amounts of money on things they are passionate about. There has to be a business case and some sort of ROI. We've seen this so often over the years. It would make a good Racer X Story.

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MT MX 9/13/2012 12:41pm
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Jesse318NW wrote:
I hate to speculate as I have yet to see a press release, but anytime you hear about a "passionate guy fronting as much money as...
I hate to speculate as I have yet to see a press release, but anytime you hear about a "passionate guy fronting as much money as necessary to have a competitive team" you have to be skeptical. It sounded like the team banked on Witt most of the year. These guys didn't get rich by dumping endless amounts of money on things they are passionate about. There has to be a business case and some sort of ROI. We've seen this so often over the years. It would make a good Racer X Story.
Just asking, how does JDR do it then?
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TX24 9/13/2012 2:06pm
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I read JDR sold a fence Co. in Oz for a fortune.
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ML512 9/13/2012 2:37pm
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TX24 wrote:
I read JDR sold a fence Co. in Oz for a fortune.
Ding ding! The jay kid that runs Jdr his father owned what I believe was the largest fence company in Australia (they did the fencing for the 2004? Sydney Olympics. I believe I saw in an article the company was worth like 800 million or something when he sold it...
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HuskyEd 9/13/2012 4:12pm
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Wow, that happened quick. Had a huge factory rider signing at Langston Motorsports right before Elsinore.Unsure

Sure hope Grant can pull it together. He sure sounded awful excited about 2013 on DMXS.
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GuyB 9/13/2012 4:12pm
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Yep, from what I hear, the the plug has been pulled, and the party's over.
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DL 9/13/2012 6:19pm
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Sucks for Grant! Hope he can figure it out. He was out at Pala today ripping on a KTM 250SX....... no doubt burning off some steam.
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jathey 9/13/2012 7:22pm
9/13/2012 7:22pm Edited Date/Time 9/13/2012 7:25pm
ab5772 wrote:
One minute it's "KTM factory support," the next it's Matthes hinting that they may not be around. Anyone know what's up?
Jesse318NW wrote:
I hate to speculate as I have yet to see a press release, but anytime you hear about a "passionate guy fronting as much money as...
I hate to speculate as I have yet to see a press release, but anytime you hear about a "passionate guy fronting as much money as necessary to have a competitive team" you have to be skeptical. It sounded like the team banked on Witt most of the year. These guys didn't get rich by dumping endless amounts of money on things they are passionate about. There has to be a business case and some sort of ROI. We've seen this so often over the years. It would make a good Racer X Story.
Grrr... I hope that's not the case here. We didn't have these kinds of problems back in the day of the huge Factory teams. Everyone wants privately funded teams, but this represents the downside of that - 'passionate' rich guys coming and going while treating our supposedly professional sport like a personal playground.

Can we just go back to this, instead?

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