Well I went and picked up an Orange bike

Thanks Guys,
Yeah every time I see one of those RED Hondas I think of MT. I think he could have done even better with better rides early on.
He was an American hero though against the "unbeatable" Euro riders.

But Farah seemed a little skinny, even back then

John i gotta ask with the majority of your riding being mx and open trails why the xc over the sxf?

The Kick Stand! jk Well I'm 55 now and ride MX don't race at it just enjoy the turns and jumps. I thought the XC would be a little tamer and softer and went with it over the SX. This bike flat out rips. I read where the xc's where a little softer engine wise and guys were adding exhaust, re-mapping, ect to pick it up a little. I guess they were talking about the XCW bikes because I don't need to add anything to this engine wise. I was thinking the "softer" XC engine would treat me better. This bike really feels like a full on MX bike to me with a better tranny. I do like that's it has six gears, bigger tank, and the kick stand of course. It comes in handy when I follow the grandkids. I'm new to KTM's but "think" other than the 18" rear, 6 speed, and kick stand the 350 XCF is the same as their 350 SXF. This bike will flat out eat up open trails! My son is extremely impressed with it and flys on it. So far I'm very happy with it.

That's awesome the new ktm four strokes seem to all make awesome power.

The 250f is class leading hp wise, 350 outruns some 450s, and the 450 is the second strongest i believe overall.

Unreal. And they all rev to.the moon and make power bottom to top, truly sound like motors i would love, i love a motor you can just hold it wide open and really rev it out when you need to without grabbing a gear and it keep pulling. Havent had a bike good for that in quite some time!


Your 350 im sure from what ive read is exactly that and very flexible.

Flexible is a excellent way to describe this engine at it really does seem to pull forever too. Roll on power wheelies in third, no problem .

Thats awesome man. New bikes are tbe best ones! Enjoy it!

Thanks .

The Orange kantoons seem to be the bike to have for hare scrambles nowadays.

Yes the VA series is full of pumpkins. It seems when I asked some of my riding buddy's a few years ago about how their KTM's handled in the tight woods they would say "OK" or "not to bad after lots of changes". Now with the newer KTM's they have stepped up the handling to where the bikes will turn out of the crate. I'm a Husky guy at heart but the new KTM's have really came a LONG way. IMHO KTM's have always been good bikes but had weird for me ergos, didn't want to turn, balance off, and needed way to much back and forth body movements to get them going and turning.