Another KTM thread for the bashers

**kezzafish** · 19th January 2010, 21:57

Originally Posted by Pornstar

How do they compare to the latest crop of forks in production, in your opinion

The forks are the wrong way up for a start. lol

Awesome pic, cheers danger. I also didn't know he won on a Kato

**cs363** · 19th January 2010, 22:36

Small correction for those interested - the bike in the picture is not actually the one Shayne won the World Championship on, that was the # 9 bike which he still has. The bike in the pic was the following season, hence the #1 plate. As far as I know it still belongs to his old sponsor and friend Jos Dolphijn who has it on display in his shop in Belgium. Jos has quite a few ex-World Championship bikes and factory bikes along with some rare vintage MX bikes on display.
There's a number of KTM's running around that have ex-Shayne King bits on them or ex practice bikes etc., which Shayne and his mechanic Jimmy (Glenn Macartney) brought back to NZ, they also brought back a heap of redundant parts like forks etc., hence the claims from some that they have his World Championship forks and so on (which in a sense they do....just not off the actual bike).
Nice find though Danger, not a lot of pics of those old MX bikes around on the net.

I'll get some pics of the real thing and post them up for you.

**Danger** · 19th January 2010, 23:02

Thats correct. I think perhaps the original had an Ohlins rear end? Even some of the production models had an Ohlins rear end and the first PDS shock was made by Ohlins. Still thought it would be of interest and its funny how many here didn't know he was on KTM, it wasn't that long ago really.

**Keithf** · 20th January 2010, 05:05

Sounds like the same guy-he was getting along pretty quickly

Originally Posted by Rupe

Think I've met that guy before, said it was the 360 with a 300exc bottom end or something, oh belonged to shayne king.

Also saw a guy at a riverhead ride on one of those old 360sx's, he was getting along great, the bike had that good aggresive 2stroke noise that exc's don't, looked like a fun bike to ride.

**Keithf** · 20th January 2010, 05:12

have some more bits fallen off your bike?:-)

Because as we all know from reading these forums . KTM's cost at least twice as much to buy and maintain as any other bike ....[/QUOTE]

**cheese** · 20th January 2010, 07:46

Originally Posted by Ktmboy

There are still quite a few of these beasts still around and they go quite well. Probably as well as most modern Hondas LOL.
Talking about 360's I used to have a Yami DT360 back in the 70's. Now that was a beast. had the kick from hell.

Anyone got a pic?

I thought that the IT490's were the ones to watch out for! LOL I had a IT175. What was the difference between the IT and DT?

**cs363** · 20th January 2010, 10:38

Originally Posted by Danger

Thats correct. I think perhaps the original had an Ohlins rear end? Even some of the production models had an Ohlins rear end and the first PDS shock was made by Ohlins. Still thought it would be of interest and its funny how many here didn't know he was on KTM, it wasn't that long ago really.

The Ohlins were never officially used on the factory bikes, but Shayne did test Ohlins on a few occasions - it was all to do with trying to find something that worked as the original PDS suspension wasn't umm...the best

All the race bikes had WP suspension on both ends, at least in that era.
Here's some pics for you as promised, #9 bike is the World Championship winning machine, #1 is a bike from the '97 season (same as the one that Jos has at his shop, the one in the photo in first post) #3 bike is from the '98 season. The other pic is the official Championship certificate, sorry no pics of the trophy as that's tucked away in SK's trophy cabinet!

**cs363** · 20th January 2010, 10:42

While we're at it, here's a few pics of Shayne's team mate at the time James Marsh. A lot of the 'ex Shayne King' bikes floating around are in fact more likely ex-James Marsh bikes, truth be known

**browny** · 20th January 2010, 16:20

Because as we all know from reading these forums . KTM's cost at least twice as much to buy and maintain as any other bike ....[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

EXCEPT husabloodybergs. ive got a cobber with a ktm360 and a IT490 both go well.the IT is just scary with its all go no stop way about it.thank god or someone for technology.the same lucky tin arse has also got a 250 2 stroke (factory) trike which is also lethal in the wrong hands.