Archives - August 2014

No record broken, no stage won, no laurels gained. Just fun remote paved roads. Desire for lugged tyre riding I am into tarmac, I didn´t have a clue of Offroad or Enduro. A few years back, the last time I rode a bike with lugged tyres I went head over heels at a harmless hill, …

This week the new KTM RC 125 is presented in the Upper Austrian town Linz. Media representatives from all over Europe will arrive at the provincial capital to have a first ride on the all-new eighth-litre supersport bike.    < > KTM RC 125 Static © Sebas Romero   The design of the full-faired KTM …

At the media presentation of the all-new KTM RC 125 for European media in Linz, stunt rider and KTM flagship Rok Bagoroš has been invited to test the new bike. The friendly Slovene arrived straight from Spielberg, where he performed his stunt show under the supporting programme of the German touring car series (DTM) at …

1290 SD R Challenge: The Ride Earlier in the year, four very lucky people who had put themselves forward for a free-to-enter competition were picked and given the privilege to ‘borrow’ a KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R for the majority of the year to compete in a series of challenges. The purpose of this contest? …

New SUPER KTM! For model year 2015, KTM will add to its ADVENTURE range and take it even further with the new KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE. As its name suggests, the 1290 builds on the current 1190 ADVENTURE. It will sit alongside in the diverse KTM Street range next year but the high-end machine will …

After a successful start at a 7 hours race at the end of April, the KTM Beast Boys made another race appearance with their KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE Rs at a 6 hours event in Oschersleben. Damn, damn. ‘Cleaver 5’ (aka Oliver) sits on the pit wall staring at the timing monitor, stopwatch in-hand. The …