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Alfie Cox, Franziska Brandl and Riaan Neveling, our hosts for the launch... The Brother KTM racers were on hand to give us some pointers... The very friendly Stephan Marais, KTM’s technical guru. at the very salubrious Makaranga Garden Lodge in Kloof, where we met for a Q&A session on the bikes. Lurking in the lobby was a 300exc with all the power parts you can think of attached and in the conference room we were greeted with a Six Days 350 four stroke as well as a 300EXC two stroke model. Now we know how much you KTM Afficionado’s love your bolt-on goodies and we have to comment that KTM is one of the very few brands that pay proper attention to marketing their extras. And - in our opinion, it pays dividends. Riaan Neveling is the new - ish marketing man at KTM and he gave a very informative presentation on the new bikes. What we found interesting and entertaining was the fact that he involved the audience, asking relevant questions to gauge an understanding of how knowledgeable the press actually are. Questions like the difference between torque and horsepower, what is the meaning of ergonomics, Centre of gravity, Open and closed cartridge forks... and quite a few of the guys on hand came away knowing a bit more than when they arrived… We are not going to go in to great detail on each bike - for that, re-read our July issue, or you can go online for our electronic copy. Nevertheless we are still pretty astonished at KTM’S claims for the new bikes. Stress was placed on the fact that these are not updated 2016’s. These are entirely new models, with emphasis placed on less weight, smoother power and better handling across the board. That’s a pretty tall order, when you consider just how successful KTM is in the dirt-bike market across the globe. We love innovation. KTM has used new alloys to remanufacture frames. They have redesigned small items like the pots on the brakes and the brake levers themselves to make them lighter and, they say, better. On the carburetted models KTM has changed supplier to Mikuni, a company that wants to continue with two-stroke development - and they say that the new carburettors are easier to adjust and work on. They tell us that the flat-slide design of the Mikuni unit allows the power to be delivered far smoother and in a more controllable way (but we are talking about a two-stroke, that is half the fun). By changing the batteries to lithium ion dry cell units, they saved more weight… and so the list goes on. The end results are astonishing savings in weight – and they have included more practical innovations. Here’s something we like a lot – the bikes shrouds have been reinforced, made from a hard plastic compound to act as radiator protectors – the aftermarket guys might not like that, but for a stock bike, we reckon that this innovation will be copied by other manufacturers. Did you 32 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016
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