Taddy Tops FIM Superenduro Round # 2

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KTM Racing Press Release: Taddy Blazusiak has claimed a second successive victory in the 2013 FIM Superenduro World Championship. Adding to his winning result at the series opener in Poland the KTM rider topped the podium at the Enduro Indoor De Barcelona, Spain. With two rounds now complete, and just one remaining, Taddy sits 29 [...]

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X-Games: Factory KTM Medal Results Sweep

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KTM Press Release: It was a victorious night for the Factory KTM Team as riders Mike Brown and Maria Forsberg swept the podium collecting the gold medal in both Men’s EnduroX and Women’s EnduroX at X-Games 18. The EnduroX event at X-Games also marked the third round of the AMA EnduroCross Series in which Brown [...]

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2012 KTM 500 EXC – First Ride Emperor of street-legal enduro bikes.

2012 KTM 500 EXC in-action

Let’s get to the point: KTM’s completely revised 2012 500 EXC is the best street-legal enduro ever. It simply has blown our minds. Just about everything on the big EXC is brand-new, right down to its name, and there’s not a single aspect of the bike that isn’t better than before. Despite the name change [...]

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Enduro Tool Kit 101 Ten must-have items for your fanny pack.

Enduro Tool Kit 101

Don’t let a tipover or minor crash strand you in the middle of nowhere. By packing a few key tools in a fanny pack or backpack, experienced riders are usually back on the trail in no time. Here are our top-10 must-haves. 1. Spare tube (21 inch): If you only carry one, make it a [...]

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Two-strokes return? – Feature OSSA shows injected single-cylinder two-stroke engine.

OSSA Enduro Bike

At last fall’s EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, Italy, reborn OSSA revealed two fuel-injected two-stroke-powered machines—one for trials, the other an enduro. Two-stroke? Fuel-injected? Two-stroke streetbikes mostly disappeared after the mid-1980s because of their high unburned hydrocarbon emissions (UHC). The cause? With a carburetor fuel system and piston-controlled exhaust and scavenge ports, some fresh charge [...]

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Beta 350 RS vs. Husqvarna TE310 vs. KTM 350 EXC-F Rocking the middle ground.

CW Comparison: Beta 350 RS vs. Husqvarna TE310 vs. KTM 350 EXC-F

How many times in motorcycling history has a new “inbetweener” class popped up seemingly out of nowhere, promising riders that the middle of the road is the fastest route to success? Right now, such a trend is in full effect with street-legal, four-stroke enduros. These are the new middleweights, a small collection of enduro bikes [...]

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