The 250 hasn't gone fuel injected, or with the cylinder changes, but they have made a lot of changes to the bike.

With the radical new engine layout, this is a totally new bike. Check the video for highlights.

Very good overview of the bike, worth a watch!

http://xlnk.me/2t

Motocycle USA put up another Youtube bike review, you can view it here:

http://xlnk.me/2g

Max Nagl of the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team scored a 4-7 result in the two MX1 motos in Agueda Portugal on Sunday to be fifth overall despite a resurgence of his recent hand injury.
Nagl, who said after qualifying Saturday that he was after two top five results but was satisfied with his overall fifth place and in picking up 32 championship points.

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It seems that cyclenews have been amongst the first to get the hands on the new KTM 250SXF twin cam screamer.

http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=7491

Sounds pretty nice if you want a 250 Four Stroke. I'm sure there will be quite a few people waiting to see them arrive in Australia in registerable form.

I know of one old style (01/02?) KTM 250EXC Four Stroke that gets the crap revved out of it regularly (and did a suspected oil ring last weekend).

The twin cam beastie might be able to stand up to that sort of constant hammerin better than the old single cam.

Time will tell.

Why I am a Traitor.

Well it has been done and I hang my head in shame, I have turned blue. Why did you do this criminal act the masses of orange people asked as they made threatening gestures that questioned my manhood and my life. How could you go from the mighty Katoomb 520 and all it

January 2002 saw me get back into riding the trails again. I guess it happens when your son gets old enough to ride and you have something of a mid-life crisis at 40. So I decided to get back into it in a big way. At 199cms (6ft6ins) and well and truly a centurion (100kgs plus) the bike needed to be big. So it was the XR 650 for me, mostly based on the Honda track record and bullet proof reliability. Once it was derestricted and a new exhaust tip installed it went really well, actually too well as the standard gearing is good for something like 180 clicks and the last time I looked there's not too many trails where that sort of speed is much use. After investing in all the new gear necessary to look the part I proceeded to learn how to ride again after about a 10 year layoff. joining up with AMTRA was a good start and a few camping trips started to get me into it again.

Jumping from the yellow to the blue team

After owning a DRZ400 for about 2 1/2 years I recently decided to take the plunge and upgrade to a new bike.

I decided I wanted something with a bit more off road capability, albeit a little more costly on the maintenance side. It had to be a great trail bike and I wasn't worried about the racing side of things. Basically there were two choices for me. Orange or Blue.

Yes there are others out there but at this point in time they were ruled out because when it comes time to upgrade again, they are worthless.

As one dealer said to me, "he would not trade in a lot of the new European bikes because he knows he will never sell them".

I am getting older, no doubt about it really. When you hit 50, it is impossible to disguise the fact. The Yamaha induced nose needed surgery recently, the KTM collar bone fractured easily when the Honda dumped me, the Suzuki haematoma on the leg aches a bit, and the Honda thumb forewarns of weather changes.

I started my dirt bike riding on a Yamahe DT360 in 1974. It was a prick of a thing really, but it was fast in straight line. I defected to a Montesa 250 (still have it in the shed in bits) and then back to Jap bikes that were cheap and reliable. A string of bikes including a lovely KS125 Kawasaki, and a couple of PE175 Suzukis. Tough and reliable bikes, but also heavy and under powered. It was then that I decided to start enduro racing. I needed power and suspension. I needed a KTM! At the age of 34 I bought a KTM 300. it was really a 270 cc 2 stroke, but it had long legs and a front disc. Much better. When I turned 35 I really wanted to win the Veterans class at our local enduro series ( green triangle enduro series: see gtenduro.com.au) so I updated to a 89 KTM250, with a power valve and 2 discs and I got fit. A series of second and third places and one flukey win , saw me earn one of those large ugly trophies for my shed.