KTM GP bike

paced_haste · Nov 17, 2004

this the bike you were talking about Aaron?
http://www.belmonttool.com.au/motorsport/newktm/ktm gp bike.html

if anyone has any information on the whereabouts of this motorcycle, please contact me immediately. no 'champ', just because it's got a #1 plate on it doesn't mean you get to ride it.

Z

aaron · Nov 18, 2004

Yeah thats the one. How bad is that?

Aaron

jbranson · Nov 18, 2004

Looks like some kind of **** bike to me.
And it looks slower than a honda.
JohnnyB

paced_haste · Nov 18, 2004

firstly - easy

secondly - INNNNNNNNNNNcorrect

Z

jbranson · Nov 18, 2004

Definately at the very least a metro-sexual bike.

I assume the engine is made by whoever makes KTM engines...who makes the rest of the bike? Honda?

Zack...has Aaron asked you yet about joining our race team?...You'll only have to be the beer fetch boy for a year. Then you get promoted to big head polisher for those members of our team with big heads whoever they may be.

What makes us a team you ask? We are a team because we say we are a team.
JohnnyB

JD · Nov 18, 2004

jb, it's only a **** bike if it can fit you, me and zack all at once....and I think it will just fine!

it does look serious though.

jbranson · Nov 18, 2004

Don't bother me, I'm visualizing you, me and Zack.

and I'm getting ill.

JohnnyB

(have I ruined this thread yet?)

paced_haste · Nov 19, 2004

in the hopes to revive this thread:
KTM makes KTM as far as i know. engines and chassis. i couldn't tell if you were kidding or not, but i'm pretty sure the bike it austrian from the ground up. italian wheels maybe...

Z

paced_haste · Nov 19, 2004

with JD's head and JB's 'head', i wouldn't fit on the f--kin thing anyway. i'll just get another one, you two can ride the first one together. sheesh

Z

jbranson · Nov 19, 2004

I thought KTM used Rotax engines....or something like that. And I wasn't aware that they produced a GP chassis at all.

Nope...just checked their website, looks like they've been making their own engines for quite some time. See what happens when I don't pay attention for twenty years.

wow...they've come along way since being just another stupid Euro brand. If they keep it up they might make real motorcycles some day.

See.... I've returned the thread to KTM... I'm such a nice guy.
JohnnyB

jbranson · Nov 19, 2004

Speaking of KTM.

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2004/Nov/041118d.htm

JohnnyB

paced_haste · Nov 19, 2004

yea man, that's some trick shit. V4 MotoGP engines? their dirt bikes are making a big enough splash that they can play with roadracing. i love it. they've got a 250 GP project now too. "KTM hat trick in roadracing; 125, 250 and motogp"...headline from 2018. Kenny Roberts' team is defnitely the place to excel in motogp too...yeesh.

Z

jbranson · Nov 19, 2004

Hehehe... yeah he's got all that success from the Proton team to work with.
I'd definately consider a KTM sport bike. It would be nice to have a real mass produced Euro Sportbike that didn't have the same...errr..quality..as a Ducati. I've certainly never heard of any quality issues with KTM...hell, they are practically Germans.

JohnnyB

UngaWunga · Nov 19, 2004

quote:
Hehehe... yeah he's got all that success from the Proton team to work with.

The final year of the Proton 2strokes were VERY fast bikes. They got a few pole positions with them.

quote:
I'd definately consider a KTM sport bike. It would be nice to have a real mass produced Euro Sportbike that didn't have the same...errr..quality..as a Ducati. I've certainly never heard of any quality issues with KTM...hell, they are practically Germans.

Take a KTM 950 Adventurer for a test ride. Really. Awesome bike.

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