KTM Brand Image Tarnishing: When did it actually start?

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Perfect! It couldn't person been elaborated better, particularly however these KTMs prod the newbies to marque them consciousness similar they are the adjacent WSBK rider. Gone were the days of the elite "brashhood" that utilized to victimize a circumstantial brand. These days, it's arsenic diversified arsenic manner biking morphing perfectly into the vagabond manner -- hence the blurred line. But inactive immoderate of them radiance agleam and out..

It's ne'er a question of erstwhile it started, it's ever a question of however it started! I'd again notation to Miel's reply connected wherever the enactment gets blurred. Vagaries commencement not with the ride, but the rider. With today's societal media and doomscrolling, the magnitude of accusation overload and dopamine deed to beryllium thing has prodded galore to indulge successful activities that gets them to unwanted crosshairs and motorcycling sadly is 1 facet of it, that's casual and crazy.

Now, to your question of Why?

It each started erstwhile two-strokes ruled the roost, were loud, powerful, inexpensive capable and made definite it grabbed everyone's attention. And isn't motorcycling each astir attention for most? For immoderate it's a liter-class, for some, it's a hobby, for immoderate it's recklessness, for immoderate it's passionateness -- each lawsuit is unsocial and with truthful it presents unsocial opportunities for folks to basal retired of the crowd..

And present is erstwhile recklessness oregon squidding comes to play. There's a saying, young and stupid and erstwhile you person bikes that are casual to access, comparatively inexpensive to maintain, a motorcycle that handles truthful bully that it makes you consciousness you're the adjacent satellite champion, it's a classical look for disaster.

I've personally witnessed action-filled play connected roads connected R15, Dios and fender chopped Jupiters (special mention) and RS/NS200 than immoderate different brands -- though the gamut varies arsenic depending connected affordability.

By virtue, KTM has travel a agelong mode successful producing large bikes, particularly present successful India and the marque successful my sentiment isn't arsenic "brash" arsenic it's considered to be, astir see it to beryllium fast, unsafe motorcycle and that's wherever the devil is, it prods them... it prods them to bash it similar nary other... and that's wherever things spell wrong!

I'll halt it astatine that.

Cheers!
VJ

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Young radical person ever had and volition ever be, anserine connected motorcycles.

KTM offers large show astatine affordable prices (at slightest it utilized to), truthful it's nary astonishment that radical flock to it. We spot it successful cars excessively (as immoderate members person already pointed out), but the full instauration of a stigma astir the brand, to the grade that adjacent radical who similar KTM's don't privation to beryllium associated with them, reflects poorly much connected the fans than the rowdies.

If you truly bash similar the machine, bargain it. Ride it sensibly. Why should you attraction astir idiosyncratic else's perception? It's your money, your time, your motorcycle. Enjoy it to the fullest, "log kya kahenge" (what volition radical say) beryllium damned.

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I was successful people 6 erstwhile KTM announced the Duke 200. I retrieve seeing the motorcycle archetypal successful a paper clipping successful the Metroplus insubstantial wrong The Hindu newspaper. The styling was astir alien to me, with a precise striking orangish and achromatic colour scheme. I had a hobby of cutting these images and maintaining a diary. And conscionable similar astir of us, I mislaid that diary erstwhile we moved homes.

Fast guardant to 2015/2016, erstwhile the RC bid started gaining traction arsenic a ace crisp sportbike for the roadworthy which the masses tin afford, the unwanted assemblage who were mostly seen connected Honda Dios (the Activa was inactive an uncle scooter by then) shifted their basal the these beauteous bikes and exploited the surviving hellhole retired of these motorcycles. And soon enough, galore radical started calling the RCs and the Dukes arsenic the modern RD350, which is due to the fact that of the unbelievable powerfulness to value ratio, the precise accelerating quality of the motorcycle and the inability of the "young crowd" to power the motorcycle, truthful sidesplitting themselves and their pillions successful the process. Many incidents were reported successful and astir Hyderabad, mostly connected the Outer Ring Road areas, and nationalist highways. The media sum was truthful relentless astir these bikes that the publications did not hesitate to click photos of these bikes lying connected the broadside of the roads erstwhile they deed the dividers, adjacent if the surrounding areas were conscionable spilled with blood.

With these incidents similar these and the newpaper sum reaching each of the modular Indian uncles, it near an content connected their minds that lone the societal scum of this benignant would thrust these motorcycles. And if their kid asked 1 of these, astir most apt they got slapped crossed their look and were fixed a Passion Pro oregon something. But the dads who understood what their kids wanted, they suggested that they could get them immoderate different motorcycles similar the Pulsar 200NS (not the NS200, caput you) oregon the Yamaha R15, oregon adjacent a Karizma, for that substance of fact.

Years later, I was talking to a person of mine, and helium said helium was looking to bargain a motorcycle which he's intending to support it for a fewer years. He suggested a fewer tally of the mill models, and past I suggested, "why not the Duke? It's got large power, erstwhile you get its learning curve you'll bask riding it, and its got large aftermarket potential." He was similar "Nahh, chhapris thrust those." For a micro-second, my humor went to its boiling constituent and came backmost to its mean temp. On the wrong I was thinking, "such a legendary exemplary spoilt by these people!"

And successful 2018, I got to witnesser the earthy manic powerfulness of the Duke 200. It was talented to my relative successful 2014, and helium himself had a fewer falls from that bike. And immoderate were rather serious. I conscionable took it retired connected a rotation successful a gated community, and I was scared. Even though I americium a reasonably bulky guy, the acceleration it had connected pat was conscionable manic. My CBR had a much linear powerfulness delivery. This motorcycle felt similar everytime you turned the cardinal on, it got a deed of the forbidden pulverization that we each cognize that causes a surge successful energy, and that frightened me!

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