KTM: the logo and the look
Posted in History
How three letters came to define a company and Europe’s largest motorcycle manufacturer. All about the history behind the logo of KTM.
The right shoulders: meeting Chase Sexton
He’s the reigning AMA Supercross champion and Red Bull KTM’s fresh hope for the mammoth American racing series. How is Chase Sexton pivoting to life in orange?
The MotoGP™ enabler
How do you get to be a Grand Prix Crew Chief and how complex is the job anyway? Brad Binder’s closest collaborator, Andrés Madrid, tells us the story…
The third one
KTM reigned supreme in 2023 MXGP and the MX2 class for the seventh time in the last eight years but the season was about more than Andrea Adamo as Liam Everts also made the grade with the KTM 250 SX-F. Here the likeable and sensitive Belgian tells us about some of the trek to the top.
Have you ever tasted Californian ‘orange’?
Posted in People
KTM has a very proactive apprenticeship and training program to help youngsters, graduates and professionals find a vocation alongside their fondness for motorcycles, technology and design. The ‘Dual Academy’ is a bold platform that allows dedicated trainees to fast-track their way into a career and also sample KTM on another continent. How do we sign up?!
PREPARING FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF BATTLE: BENAVIDES & PRICE REACH DAKAR 2024 REST DAY
The major rest-day milestone has been reached! Both Toby Price and Kevin Benavides have overcome the first week perils of the notoriously tough Dakar Rally in Saudi aboard their KTM 450 RALLY machines to make it to the all-important mid-point of the race. Time to re-charge, re-focus and prepare for the second part of the battle.
Young Turk: The mind of Deniz Öncü
2023 was the fourth and final Moto3™ season for 20-year-old Turkish racer Deniz Öncü and a term where he won three Grands Prix – his first victories – often with explosive and captivating displays. Now on the threshold of a Moto2™ challenge with his Red Bull KTM Ajo team for 2024 we decided to get 1-1 on discussions with Deniz.
No sales, no marketing, no bluster. Just riding. The birth of RIDE KTM by those who made it.
Three decades ago, KTM was spurred into action by one of its iconic athletes to offer customers the ultimate ‘taster’ of what it means to ride in orange. To this day ‘RIDE KTM’ is an enduring and popular scheme to provide unforgettable motorcycle experiences. How did it come to be?
5 things you might not have known about Pedro Acosta’s double title-winning rocket to MotoGP™
There is the ability and there is the weight of numbers. In both ways new Moto2 World Champion Pedro Acosta can sit peacefully with the billing of a ‘generational talent’. For those who have already seen the spectacular style in which the 19-year-old handles a race bike, there here is the hard data behind #37’s surge to the top.
RAISING THE BAR OF EXC-ELLENCE WITH TWO WORLD CHAMPIONS
Exceptional, emotional, and incredible are the main words that come to mind to describe the World Championship victories of Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Manuel Lettenbichler and Josep Garcia. As the reality of achieving their goals sets in, on what has been quite a journey through 2023 aboard completely new KTM EXC machinery, we take a look at their FIM Hard Enduro and FIM Enduro1 World titles.
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