[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

KTM just announced, today, that they are closing. Completely. Gone. Let's hope someone buys them, they make great bikes, in a way. Fast as hell, capable as hell, but perhaps too "race bike" for general consumption. They have earned a reputation as being one of the most fragile, with some of the lowest recommended rebuild intervals in the industry. Most of us don't need, and can never take advantage of, the extra edge in performance they can eek out by doing that. I know several riding buddies who sold KTM motorcycles when that short rebuild interval just got to be an expensive pain in the ass. Precisely the "broken chainsaw" to which this commenter referred.

Nope - KTM is not going anywhere. Their restructuring deal got approved.

The new TBI 2 strokes go over 200 hours on a top end and outside North America come with signal lights and are street legal (XC-W, EC, and TE flavours). Mine is registered as a street bike and I plan to put a light kit on it so I can drive it on the street if I choose to.