KTM tests

The MXA wrecking crew tested, documented, inspected, theorized and calculated every conceivable facet of the 250 four-stroke class for 2014. Your future bike now!
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Even though it is fun to fly to some far-away track to test a bike, it isn’t much of a test. MXA prefers to test bikes on the “dirt dyno.” What is the dirt dyno? It is the tracks that we have done a thousand laps on.
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We tested each bike in its stock form, and put 20 hours on each bike to, try to make them ultimately comparable to each other and to keep things equal we installed the same tires on each bike
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The King of 250 Two-Strokes had no rivals for the throne in 2014
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MXA's Daryl Ecklund takes KTM's RC390 Sport Bike to a road race track to test it and himself
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The MXA wrecking crew matches its motocross skill against the KTM X-Bow
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There here! Just in time for Chase Sexton, Aaron Plessinger and the rest of the men in orange to spin a few laps before A1
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A stock 2011 KTM 350SXF weighs 237 pounds. Andrew Short’s 350SXF weighed 222.8 pounds. That is a 14-pound weight loss
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There has to be a reason why the KTM 250SX keeps winning the MXA Shootout— that's because it is a step above every other bike in the class
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Josh, Josh, Dennis and Trevor went to the massive KTM factory complex in Mattighofen, Austria, and got to meet, greet and race with the KTM employees. It was a blast—See the Trevor Nelson video at the end
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Building a KTM 65SX to challenge the unique conditions, high altitude and jetting issue of Mammoth Mountain
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Let's go back 23 years and see what the 2001 KTM 250SX two-stroke was like—the great, the good, the bad and the awful
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What dId Langston’s AMA 125 National bike have in common with his works bike from Europe? Not much, just the pipe, silencer and transmission.
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MXA was of the opinion that KTM had sandbagged the first 350SXF. If the 2011 KTM 350SXF had run as well as the 2013 350SXF, there would be a lot more 350cc bikes on the racetracks today
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The 2024 KTM 450SXF is a thing of beauty. It has a luscious powerband, and even though it makes almost 60 horsepower, it is super manageable and handles like a dream. No oversteer, no understeer; it is super accurate in all situations.
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We sent our new mini test rider, Nixyn D'Errico, to Mammoth with a full-blown 65cc race bike. His Dad, Ryan D'Errico gives us the low down on this mini race bike
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Come with us on the journey back to 2011 to see what we thought of the first-ever KTM 350SXF ... you'll be surprised!
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We don’t think the new 2001 engine was motocross ready. If the 2000 KTM 250SX came with the 1999 engine and right-side-up forks, it would have been a runaway hit
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Take your pick from an incfredibly wide range of 2024 racing machines
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You read that engine size right! In 2001 KTM experimented with a lighter bike and smaller engine to go up against the big bikes on a tighter track
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Based all-new 2024 KTM 300XC-W as a baseline, the KTM 300XC-W HardEnduro model is engineered to challenge the most extreme terrain.n
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The best thing about the 2023 version of the KTM 450SXF engine is that it delivers a broad, long, churning, usable locomotive style of power
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