one of the first ‘orange’ ktms. now orange is of course the brand’s standard color, but this really only started about the time i got this bike. it sounded like an incremental improvement over the lc4 600 at the time, but boy this thing was a handful. the extra 70 cc (the 600 really only…
my first ktm! while called a 600 the engine displacement was actually 550ccm. i had been admiring ktms for many years. i mean, being an austrian and having seen heinz kinigardner take two moto cross world championships on ktms you have to love them. when i then started riding in the austrian- hungarian enduro championship i found…
this is the only picture of my bike i could find. it is also significant in another way: this was the last race where i was wearing this helmet. the reason is not that i did not like it; i rather fancied the silver & orange. even more sad then that the helmet did actually…
it’s all andi’s fault. he had a yamaha xt 500 – the one with the silver tank, do you remember? it even featured in a bond movie! – and i really fancied that bike. well, at least until i tried it out once. i recall standing by the roadside kicking the thing for … well…
my first bike … well i guess that depends on the way you look at it. coming from something with a real frame, real brakes and, let’s face it, a real engine, this thing is scary. on the upside you got a lot of storage space, your legs will never get dirty, only your upper…
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