KTM: Layoffs and relocation of production

[@tudomerda]

After the camshaft warranty fiasco I'm not ever going near KTM. They're greedy corps who don't honour their warranty claims.

[@bigmuller1]

Hardly surprising. Has they tend to be more on the expensive side.for nothing that special

[@tinhidalgo2675]

KTM spends more on advertising than on reliability.

[@droflivelife]

Boycott KTM. Boycott any company backing their production to China.

[@edmachado22]

👏

[@gabrielibarra5551]

KTM, people love your bikes, make better products, its not that hard, get your quality under control

[@Daniel75gr]

I almost traded my Africa Twin for the 990 which I test rode and absolutely loved. KTM's reliability is a big issue. The camshaft issues with the 790 and 890's showed that they don't care about their customers and let them hang with enormous loss

[@gabrielibarra5551]

@Daniel75gr yeah after i heard of the camshaft issues i dont feel comfortable reccomending or even wanting to buy a new KTM bike. Which is a shame! I really wanted a new RC990 once it came out Even their flagship bike the superdukes are riddled with issues on top of the fact that ktm is basically the only manufacturer i know that has tech packs for features other manufacturers bikes come with free of charge, greedy 😐

[@cycletexas9157]

You can have perfect quality, but if the design is bad, it doesn’t matter.

[@martincollins-er5bt]

unreliably is a major problem ...poor quality

[@williamleonardo8478]

The design team in Austria are incredible people they are very smart they are the ones that are feeding the information to CF Moto in China to build good bikes because China has no history of making anything that's worth the f***quality is Job 1 but in the Chinese mentality is cut corners cut corners cut corners can you cut too many corners what do you do you crash

[@ashdivakaran9664]

They need to focus on making better looking bikes that are reliable. Not everyone wants to ride an orange cockroach.

[@an-shunlin2473]

to expensive

[@pasha_houston]

I just know one delaship I've been there 3 times (1st to buy a bike, I quoted twice none came to me) 2 times to service the superduke I bought somewhere alse after they missed on my sale. I'm not gonna get in to details, that delaship was the worst most careless delaship I ever been to. Side note I'm a service advisor in a car delaship myself and seen some shit, but they say they operate considering it's damn nice brand is shocking and discrediting for KTM. I'm not going back there and will work on the bike myself maybe sell it after a year or so :/ shame, you expect at least a dealer that has some respect to their customers and competent techs. Again it's just one delaship that I know, but every delaship matter for the brand to thrive, or at least not be incompetent a**holes. Sad, I do enjoy the bike.

[@pierrekronbert6741]

Every motorcycle company make bikes that are not good enough. Supersport are still at a technological finish. But every other motorcycle have parts and design that looks cheap and handmade home in the garage. 😢

[@larryb.1884]

Stop making UGLY motorcycles, every review says the same thing. Great handling great power why so ugly. They seem to be proud of it!

[@boxster21]

Quality control/ oil leaks

[@bigmuller1]

@@boxster21 dont forget welding done by stevey wonder

[@ashdivakaran9664]

I would buy one if it wasn’t so damn ugly

[@williamleonardo8478]

The only real good bike they built was in 2005 which was the 525 which was a husaberg coffee that was awesome they have forgotten their Roots which made them strong all they focused on was the money which will end their lifespan they've almost had bankruptcy four times CF Moto and poor really mobility group a bunch of shitbag investors that do not care about you and me as the writing public last thing I want is a bike that I pay $15,000 for that takes a s*** in 6 months that will not be back by a warranty you guys can see everything that's happening with the two stroke and the four strokes camshaft failures TBI failures because they're just punching out junk have a nice day

[@williamleonardo8478]

When they bought hoosen bird for their four-stroke technology they should have kept the hoosen bird named because it was the s*** that's where they f***** up the 90° four-stroke motor was way ahead of its time they should attack it and ran with it instead of doing the gas gas thing which was a waste of money the bedtime that husaberg was in business they won more championships in 5 years and almost all Japanese motorcycle manufacturers people forget how history was if it wasn't for who's in Burg and KTM buying them KTM would never be the racing dominance that they are they have totally forgot their history and past tense their people make them strong now moving everything to China CF Moto is there going to be Chinese f****** junk have a nice day

[@williamleonardo8478]

The only thing KTM can do is buy another motorcycle manufacturer that is successful and try to straighten it out they should have bought Ducati when they had a chance then they would have had a premier motorcycle but they've tried to mess around and try to buy these other manufacturers suck out all their technology and then shut them down the gas gases from Spain were really nice bikes they should have left the factory in Spain instead of moving it to Austria cuz all they did was try to ride the gas gas name as a KTM app it had no soul it was just another punched out KTM copy bike which are marginal on their best day and they know better they're just a Chinese company back CF Moto don't get me wrong CF Moto make some nice bikes I see the 450 Mt which is probably the bike that KTM should have built but because CF Moto is in control right now now the CF Moto 450 is a nice bike but it should have been bad as a KTM they would have got 11 grand for it but now that bike sells for 6500 bucks see where the industry is going

[@markvanzati6362]

They are garbage and i am a ktm mechanic.

[@Radke32]

They spending way too much on MotoGP, almost bankrupt Suzuki, and Kawasaki before that

[@williamleonardo8478]

KTM needs to buy another motorcycle manufacturer that they can copy and build bikes that actually are acceptable all the KTM street bikes look like s***out of a f****** Frankenstein movie what are they thinking people do not want bikes like this looks like something a tweaker would make have a nice day

[@ptrtng6307]

European bikes only Triumph and Ducati... the rest is pure marketing and bad engineering.

[@mitchberger2691]

Also Beta, Sherco, TM and the Spanish made Montessa are European made.