Is KTM in financial trouble?

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Noggin wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:07 pm Oooh, they've reduced them a bit. Not enough for me to go new tho :( :( Not sure I want to buy a second had 'baby' bike over here - it'll have been thrashed everywhere!!! :( :(

https://www.elitemoto15.com/motos/6913- ... -2024.html
I suspect they'll all have been thrashed, regardless of the location 😆

My KTM was cheap and cheerful 18 months ago, and because it's a (relatively speaking) cheap toy, I'm less concerned about them going pop and leaving me with a potential future issue than I would have been 20 years ago when I didn't have much in the way of disposable income.

I'd be sad though. KTMs are fun.
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Sunny wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:14 pm
Noggin wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:07 pm Oooh, they've reduced them a bit. Not enough for me to go new tho :( :( Not sure I want to buy a second had 'baby' bike over here - it'll have been thrashed everywhere!!! :( :(

https://www.elitemoto15.com/motos/6913- ... -2024.html
I suspect they'll all have been thrashed, regardless of the location 😆

My KTM was cheap and cheerful 18 months ago, and because it's a (relatively speaking) cheap toy, I'm less concerned about them going pop and leaving me with a potential future issue than I would have been 20 years ago when I didn't have much in the way of disposable income.

I'd be sad though. KTMs are fun.
True. TBF, mine was pretty well thrashed before it was nicked!! LOL A handful of trackdays and most of the road time trying to keep up with a nutter on a ZX9r! :angelic-green: :angelic-green: :angelic-green:

I'm going to keep an eye on the new prices here just in case it becomes a bit possible :oops: :oops:
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Skub wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 3:56 pm MV bought by Art of Mobility S.A.
https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/mv ... -from-ktm/
Thanks to KTM's over-production policy, they too have a warehouse full of unsold bikes - I seem to remember more than 2000. They've just had to pre-reg some of them because they are pre-Euro 5+.

I would hazard a guess that Sardarov is laughing all the way to a bank. He almost certainly sold his shares for top dollar and bought them back for peanuts in the KTM fire sale.
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Art of Mobility? Sounds like a supplier of disability aids. :D
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The Spin Doctor wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:52 pm
Skub wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 3:56 pm MV bought by Art of Mobility S.A.
https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/mv ... -from-ktm/
Thanks to KTM's over-production policy, they too have a warehouse full of unsold bikes - I seem to remember more than 2000. They've just had to pre-reg some of them because they are pre-Euro 5+.

I would hazard a guess that Sardarov is laughing all the way to a bank. He almost certainly sold his shares for top dollar and bought them back for peanuts in the KTM fire sale.
There are some cracking pre-reg bike deals at the moment. Buyers market for sure.
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Count Steer wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:11 am Art of Mobility? Sounds like a supplier of disability aids. :D
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