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<\/p>\nsomehow, as i get older, my bikes get smaller. this time i got myself a ktm (of course) 250 exc-f.<\/p>\n
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well, size does certainly matter, and to tell you the truth: with the amount of training i get these days (and subsequently my lack of fitness) the last thing i need is a monster that tears off my arms as soon as i twist the accelerator.<\/p>\n
so this time i went for a small, light bike. it is, if this is possible, even narrower and certainly a few kilos lighter than the 450, with fewer rotational masses, which made cornering a breeze. the 250 also had just the right amount of traction for me: where guys with the bigger bikes struggled to find a balance between speed and traction, the 250 seemed to almost naturally work its way through. ktm has previously struggled to develop a competitive 250 and this was the first series where they actually got it right. the 250 does require a different approach to riding, and one i previously really struggled with. i always had bikes with a lot of torque and used the torque curve rather than revs to keep the momentum. that does not work with the 250 – it will rather stall than pull out of a corner if the revs get too low. i did manage to adapt but to be honest i wanted a bit more grunt.<\/p>\n still, that mosquito most certainly had a sting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" somehow, as i get older, my bikes get smaller. this time i got myself a ktm (of course) 250 exc-f. well, size does certainly matter, and to tell you the truth: with the amount of training i get these days (and subsequently my lack of fitness) the last thing i need is a monster that… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/250exc-f_lge.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-KK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbut just feather the clutch and the 250 f engine kicks into life: the engine features a dual cam head (the only one that ktm makes) with titanium valves revving to a screaming 13.000 rpm … and delivering nearly 40 bhp on the way. which is as much as the old xt 550<\/a> or even the exc 400<\/a> had … imagine.<\/p>\n