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Originally Posted by subxero
do they count off road sales in all of that?
If so then that is a huge part of the market right there, KTM's off road sales in the US are way up. They are pretty much the only major company that still offers 2 strokes other than Yamaha and Yamy only really offer their MX bike where as KTM has a whole line up of 2 strokes from MX to XC they get routine updates and their 4 strokes are on par with the big 4 as well. The popularity of hare scrambles and XC here in the US is growing and KTM has that market wrapped up.
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I think this is pretty key as to why KTM is so blase about sportbike sales. They make most of their money off of dirt bikes anyways. Sportbikes are probably 1% of their overall sales. So they can make "virtuous" claims about not selling sportbikes so they look ethical when is reality they are just quitting a game they weren't winning anyways (compete for sportbike sales).