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Factory Prepped: 1999 KTM 660 Rallye Dakar

5 Апр 2015 | Author: dima | Комментарии отключены

Factory Prepped: 1999 KTM 660 Dakar

2/27/2011 Update: KTM sold for $8219 with 15

From 3/24/2011:

With victories from 2001 to KTM has long dominated the legendary and Paris-Dakar endurance rally. An LC4 took four wins 2001 and 2006. This 660 was for Dakar in 2000 but never

The current owner has had the motorcycle 2004 and estimates a total of 40 miles. With the new 450cc this bike is never to run the Dakar, but we could have a lot of fun it in Baja. Find it here on in San Clemente, California. A buyer on the $11,000 top bid in a previous auction, and the says the current reserve is below that.

That’s a great deal on a sought after, non-raced, endurance racer.

After prepared for the 2000 Dakar for a buyer, this motorcycle into storage until as still new in 2003 by a different He rode it for a few hundred miles and that for him the bike was a bit too much. We that’s probably more of a about the bike than the riding skills.

A bike designed and tuned to be flat-out across frame-breaking for days at a time is likely to be impractical in most other In 2004 it was sold to the current who says he legally imported it the US.

Three fuel tanks this motorcycle an astounding gallons capacity. The list of Rallye parts is extensive. Rallye forks with a foot of travel, special subframe, hand-laid fiberglass mask with Dakar Rallye instrument console and illuminated roadbook, widened the massive Rallye bashplate, aluminum water tank, Rallye stainless exhaust.

The list is seemingly endless.

we see Rallye Replicas around, is a factory special order unavailable for regular purchase. are the bikes KTM fanatics whisper to one another and even the Rallye remain an impractical and expensive for most. Actual special-order Rallye’s have almost all raced, are rare in the open and effectively never in the condition of one.

When it comes to tough, terrain-eating motorcycles, it’s or in the case of Dakar, impossible, to a KTM. To find a bike factory-prepped to take on the race, but so little use and wear is extraordinary. it could have been had for and was passed by we suspect is a mistake on the bidders part.

It’s an easy bet that bike cannot be duplicated for near that price. The lightweight fuel tank is a multi-thousand dollar item, they can be found. For anyone big enduro racing dreams, or a big, wide-open backyard, some big, dirty, fun.

If you can hang on.