Talk:KTM

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Who wrote the off road motorcycles section? It is the most confusing English I have ever read, "The suspension of the KTM is softer and slightly than the XC line" first of all what is slightly supposed to mean in this context and how can you compare the overall make of bike with one of the models? I tried editing it a bit but I had to give up because it was annoying me too much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.189.248 (talk • contribs) 07:04, October 30, 2006

This article must have been vandalized at some point because the statement "The company was founded in 1934 by engineer Mathew Burke in Mattighofen" is clearly wrong, according to the official history page at ktm.com the founder of the repair shop later to become KTM was named Hans Trunkenpolz and nothing else (which was what the article said a while ago), I'm changing it back. There might be more factual errors that needs to be corrected. Psvanstrom 23:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] motorization of the motorcycles

if i recall correctly, in the 1970s, the enduro KTMs, then very popular in Europe, were motorized by a Bombardier two-stoke, two cylinder engine, with the distinct characteristic of the air-cooling fins of the cylinder head laid out in the pattern of a fan (in French, the term to describe it was "culasse hérisson" (hedgehog head).

--Jerome Potts 04:21, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Aha, maybe it was the Rotax engine (Austrian company then already owned by KTM). --Jerome Potts 04:27, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Trunkenpolz died unexpectedly in 1989"

Regarding the sentence "Trunkenpolz died unexpectedly in 1989" - considering that Trunkenpolz founded the company in 1934, was he really at an age where a death is unexpected in 1989?

What it probably means (although I have no idea of the actual facts) is that he wasn't suffering from any obvious illnesses at the time.