Some more photos of the Kiska designed KTM 125 Stunt and 125 R concept bikes which were shown last year in Milan.

Cairoli, the reigning MX1 World Champion and the latest recruit to the Red Bull Factory Racing squad rode the ground-breaking bike to victory in the first two of three finals and was third in the last race for a clear overall victory. “It was a fantastic start for me and I enjoyed riding the 350 bike. Today I wanted to do some tests to see how it went at the start and everything went well for me. I’m happy with the bike and the results today and its always a terrific atmosphere here at Mantova,” Cairoli said.

The results were a great start to the 2010 racing activity for KTM and the factory riders following the official factory team launch and presentation of the new KTM 350 SX-F bike at a reception on Saturday in Mantova. The latest Orange racer features an all new chassis and frame and a pro lever linkage system for increased controllability and has been developed by the KTM R&D department in close consultation with Stefan Everts, with the design done by Kiska.

KTM teammate Shaun Simpson, who missed much of last year because of injury, made a triumphant start to the season on board the latest KTM 250 SX-F, by being well up with the bigger 450 machines in the race format which combines both MX1 and MX2.

Marvin Musquin, KTM’s MX2 world champion moved up the ranks as the day progressed to finish behind teammate Simpson in second place on the final podium.

Thanks to YannB for the photos

The supercross season this year kicked off with even more drama than usual with the two main contenders colliding and both injuring themselves, Stewart scrubbing under Partridge and getting landed on and some new names in the 450 class battling for the top spots. You can catch news of all the action here, and if you want to watch the races, for those of us living outside of America you can find torrents of the races here.

Some great photos from the 2010 Dakar rally which took place in South America this year. More here. Looks like it would be incredible to ride there, the terrain is spectacular.

Never seen anything quite like this before. Love to give it a try! Outfit choice seems important. I’d have gone each-way on the orange/white bloke in the next post down. Not sure how to say each-way in Japanese though?

MP who used to work with me and sometimes post on derestricted, moved to tokyo and started his own blog. Lots of bikes and other delicacies from the land of the rising sun.

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Wasnt sure about the EXC Six days bike to start with, the Portugese colors were hard to match with orange, but the result turned out better than I thought. Comes with loads of trick parts too.

KTM 350 SX-F FACTORY RACING
With the confirmation in Milan of the key data of the 350cc, including injection and linkage, the tradition-rich offroad specialist is forging “a new path” in Motocross. KTM is the first manufacturer in the world to present a 350cc displacement bike for the sport of Motocross. The completely new bike, which will be “ready to race” from 2010 carries the distinct development signature of MX legend Stefan Everts right down to the finest detail. A concrete date for series production of this already very mature prototype has not yet been decided.

Mega high res version here! and another here.

KTM 125 street bikes
Introduction of a range of 125 cc products that have been one hundred percent developed at the company headquarters in Mattighofen, Austria.  The four-valve cylinder head, water cooling, fuel injection, two overhead cam shafts and 15 hp all demonstrate the desire for the highest level of technological development. The latticed tubular steel frame is the guarantee of perfect riding fun. As always, the very succinct KTM appearance comes from the extremely creative Kiska design team. High quality suppliers like WP Suspension and Brembo are the guarantee of premium quality components throughout. The bikes will have a lot of customisation options.

Riders basically scrub the jump in order to stay as low as possible. On some jumps going high you waste a lot of time so the quicker you can touch back down the quicker you can get back on the gas. The undisputed king of the scrub is still James ‘Bubba’ Stewart who really pioneered the move. To this day it is still often called the bubba scrub, even though he apparently doesn’t like being called Bubba anymore. Not a bad claim to fame though. It seems there are basically two different ways to do it. One technique is when the body is super offset to the bike axis with one leg straight, the other technique is you keep your two feet on the pegs, turn the bar opposite and crook your elbows which lets you keep your feet on the peg. Anyway, below I have collected the best photos I could find of dudes scrubbing.

Unrelated, but this tune is dope: Blu_Ft_Co$$-City_Of_Los(t)_Ang(e)les…

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Since it has already been leaked all over the web, here is a rendering of the new Kiska designed KTM SX, which will be revealed at Eicma in Milan in a couple of weeks.

The show bike does look very nice, I have some photos but obviously cant show them yet. Will post some after I get back from Milan.

After 2 back to back winter seasons on the snow, in the Northern and then Southern Hemisphere, Summertime™ has finally reached my bro Luke out in New Zealand.

A decent image gallery viewer has finally reached derestricted.com too. You can just click the photo, or a thumbnail below the image to go to the next image rather than slowly open image after image in a new page.

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Meanwhile on the other side of the world in Detroit, houses on auction are not even being sold for their 500 dollar minimum bid. The collapse we sometimes talk about on here has already hit some places…

DETROIT (Reuters) – In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded.
After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of “no bid” for properties listed in an auction book as thick as a city phone directory, the energy of the county auctioneer began to flag.
“OK,” he said. “We only have 300 more pages to go.”
Despite a minimum bid of $500, less than a fifth of the Detroit land was sold after four days.
The county had no estimate of how much was raised by the auction, a second attempt to sell property that had failed to find buyers for the full amount of back taxes in September.
The unsold parcels add to an expanding ghost town within the once-vibrant town known worldwide as the Motor City.

There are not many things in life as fun as tearing it around on a dirt bike. Despite having been riding/racing since I was 4 years old, I haven’t really ridden at all recently for one reason or another, I think no more than twice in the last 5 years and after being a spectator so often recently, on that bike, on that surface, man was it good to be back!

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