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The MotoGP Challenge: What do they think?
The third and final test of the MotoGP ‘pre-season’ is just around the corner at Qatar next week with the 2017 championship getting...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Mar 1, 20174 min read
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Prodding the BEAST! Part One of Three: An independent view …
At the end of last year, veteran motorcycle test journalist Roland Brown was one of the privileged few to fly into Doha to steer the...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Feb 24, 20175 min read
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MXGP – Before they ‘Go’: Did you know?
This week the 2017 FIM Motocross World Championship – MXGP – starts its 61st year of existence. The series was inaugurated after five...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Feb 22, 20174 min read
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Panini Tour: South through Mexico and Central America
With our KTM 1190 ADVENTURE Rs – recently serviced in the USA – we started the next stage of the Panini Moto Tour round the world trip...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Feb 17, 20179 min read
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“I have an idea … “
Have you looked at part of a KTM and wondered ‘how did they come up with that?’ Ideas fly around constantly in the fabrication of a...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Feb 15, 20174 min read
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Collecting Moments #1: Passion for motorcycles
Motorsport has frequently made history with an array of successes, world champions, record-breakers, and extraordinary bikes. For a long...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Feb 9, 20173 min read
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READY TO RACE: The value of racing
KTM expend a vast amount of resources and cash to enter tracks from Dakar to Doha. Like most companies they take valuable benefit from...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Jan 31, 20174 min read
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KTM bikes: How they come to be
Kiska is a prominent name when it comes to the look, shape and function of each KTM but how exactly do the two companies work together to...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Jan 26, 20174 min read
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#inthisyear2007: KTM factory rider Cyril Despres wins the last Dakar Rally in Africa
KTM had been unbeaten since 2001 when more than 140 riders lined up for the start of the 39th edition of the Dakar Rally in Asunción on...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Jan 24, 20175 min read
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Riding the Dakar-tested KTM 450 RALLY
In November 2016 the Red Bull KTM Rally Factory Racing Team opened its doors and gave a few journalists a rare chance to test the KTM 450...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Jan 18, 20177 min read
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Dakar navigation: Tricks of the trade by rally guru Stefan Huber
As the most demanding rally race in the annual calendar the Dakar Rally requires serious navigational skills, with racers having to find...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Jan 12, 20174 min read
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Jordi Viladoms: Experience transfer
Following his illustrious 10-year Dakar career, Jordi Viladoms hung up his racing boots at the beginning of 2016 to take on a key role...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Dec 22, 20165 min read
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Matthias Walkner: Racing for the orange family
Living within an hour’s drive of KTM’s headquarters, Red Bull KTM Rally Factory Racing Team’s Matthias Walkner is Austria’s next big...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Dec 15, 20166 min read
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UNBOUND: Mission & Metal
Every engine has its own, unique character. Some engines are quiet-running, keeping a low profile, others will roar shamelessly in all...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Dec 13, 20161 min read
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The Euro Way: How bikes are turning to the new rules
One of the dominant themes at the 2016 EICMA show in Milan was how the newest road bikes are all taking form around the Euro 4 ruling. We...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Dec 7, 20164 min read
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Interview of the month: Harald Plöckinger, KTM COO
We continue to put the board of directors under the spotlight and this month we catch up with the 55 year old Chief Operating Officer to...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Dec 2, 201612 min read
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Meo’s backyard: KTM Enduro Factory Bike Test
It was a little while ago now, but special opportunities to ride factory bikes are few and far between. We let Jonathan Pearson buckle up...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Nov 30, 20163 min read
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KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R: BEAST INCREASED
KTM’s BEAST is back! Well, in truth it never went away. But after three years of ripping down roads and tearing up tracks across the...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Nov 23, 20165 min read
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Dennis Ullrich: “The KTM is ideal for me”
Three titles in the ADAC Motocross Masters – Dennis Ullrich is the only rider to have ever achieved such a feat. And every time he makes...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Nov 18, 20165 min read
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2016 EICMA bike show highlight? Go the full 790
There was a range of little details and fresh ‘oranges’ on the robust stand at the EICMA show last week but it was clear that the...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Nov 16, 20164 min read
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