Italian motorbike designers (I mean the whole package) are considered the best in Europe not to say in the world stupid from KTM not to bring them over between these 2 Italian design wins Robert-Jan
Man did I follow the "500" mx season that year.... at the beginning so many jokes about the 4 stroke going up against Honda CR500 (Hanson) KX500, KTM 500MX. until Jacky started winning on that weird Italian evolved Swede grandfathered beast. OK back to prototypes.......styling exercises.....nah
The rear fender looks like the 2008 300/450/530 on steroids... same design just bigger. It was short lived on the enduros. Someone needs to tell the guy that invented that design to GET OVER IT already.
This is a picture of an Indian fakir (no rude jokes please!) on the last bike (a Puch) made in Austria before they started making Kayteebooms.
I like my frames like this one ...Does the job it was designed for and hidden out of view pretty much.
My first reaction, to the little picture on my phone was.... Ugh! I think it's redeemable though. Wish I could photoshop, that picture. A high front SM fender, a contrasting seat and some minimal graphics would make the bike look more balanced. You can't put the minimalist dirt track front end and massive monochrome seat/ haunches together and make it work.
here you go, Norm. i was curious too so i tried a 630 front plate and fender... some ass trimming, new seat cover and one decal
Cool! Some blue fork guards and it's '94 all over again. A little homage to Cagiva Huskys! Okay, you're hired. Now you need to fix the "big" side.....
Looks great. How KTM could have looked at that mess and called it done when a few colors and parts shelf parts would have made it look a million times better. In the end I think they want it to be fugly, look how much we are talking about it. Had they shown what you did here we all would have been like Meh, looks nice but is just a 690 and been done talking about it. I don't pretend to understand what might have happened for them to release that on the show but it must be something like this or they are all blind.
