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Interview of the Month: Going large – Herlings and the change to MXGP
A fresh challenge for one of the very fastest offroad motorcycle racers in the world in 2017 as twenty-year old Jeffrey Herlings moves up...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Mar 20, 20175 min read


KTM R&D: What next?
In the last of our chats with two senior figures from the depths of the immense R&D Department in Mattighofen we grabbed exclusive...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Mar 16, 20174 min read


Panini Tour: A circuit in Colombia, then on to Ecuador
The dashboards on our two KTM 1190 ADVENTURE Rs display a total of 71,500 kilometers as we resume our Panini World Tour in the Colombian...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Mar 14, 201711 min read


Prodding the BEAST! Part Three of Three: The KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R Top 5
The last segment of motorcycle tester Roland Brown’s impressions of the KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R at the winter 2016 launch in Qatar sees the...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Mar 9, 20173 min read


#inthisyear2007: the KTM X-BOW makes its debut at the Geneva International Motor Show
A car from Mattighofen? A conservative family car, or READY TO RACE on four wheels? It seemed inconceivable for fifty years, but became a...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Mar 7, 20174 min read


Prodding the BEAST! Part Two of Three: The racer’s view …
British freelance motorcycle test journalist Roland Brown gave his opinion on the KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R at the recent Qatar launch at the...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Mar 3, 20173 min read


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


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


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


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


“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


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


Carl the Kid
Competitive Supercross in Germany is in bad shape. There is a lack of riders of an international caliber. But all that could change –...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Feb 7, 20175 min read


Interview of the Month: Sam Sunderland – Winning Dakar
Sam Sunderland talks to the KTM BLOG about finishing the Dakar Rally for the first time, and taking an incredible victory, KTM’s 16th...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Feb 2, 20177 min read


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


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


#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


Interview of the Month: Bradley Smith – One day in snowy Austria
While his MotoGP grid mates relax on holiday, fraternize with sponsors and indulge in some training Bradley Smith is clocking up the...
Hero Motocorp Trinidad and Tobago
Jan 20, 20173 min read


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


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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