KTM 250 EXC-F first ride - MOTOR GERR

KTM dominate off-road sport with over 200 world championships under their belt. And they dominate because every year, without fail, the Austrian manufacturer makes its bikes better, sometimes incrementally, sometimes substantially.

This year their primary focus has been the 250EXC-F, the enduro for the everyman. Already the undisputed class leader, with a new motor KTM has just made it quantifiably better in every way...

KTM’s new 250EXC-F is a distillation of all that is core to KTM. It’s off-road (aka enduro), it’s competition, and it’s the best.

KTM have now amassed an impressive 223 world championships, but it’s what the firm can do for you, the amateur rider, rather than the professional elite, that really sets them apart.

Put simply, they’re giving you ‘what he’s getting’ (the world champ). Buying the new 250EXC-F is very much like being able to go into a Yamaha dealership and buying an exact replica of Jorge Lorenzo’s M1 MotoGP machine.

Okay, not exactly – even enduro gods reserve the rights to a few trick bits – but we’re talking 98% of the package.

And here’s the cool bit – while having 98% of what Lorenzo races would probably cause the average rider no end of headaches and possibly pain, having 98% of what enduro world champion Antoine Meo rides is just pure joy.

In enduro – where a rider will race for up to eight hours a day across the most difficult of off-road terrain – the ‘easy-to-ride’ bike is usually the winningest bike. And because of that truth, what works for Antoine invariably works for Tom, Dick and Harry.

And while a Lorenzo replica might hypothetically stand you in a cool £500,000, maybe, here’s almost-works tackle for a pretty fair £7149. Motorsport doesn’t come much more affordable.

Riding the new 250EXC-F is then to revel in decades of top level enduro intelligence. KTM have been making top enduros for going on six decades (longer in fact, their motorcycling history reaches back to 1954) and they pride themselves in adding to their understanding year on year.

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