Found a KTM 300 on vchss.net. A 300 wasn’t even on my radar….no particular reason why it wasn’t, but I was looking mainly at 250 XCs and XC-Fs. Anyway, the bike was up in Virginia, so I asked a friend of mine to come along for the ride (always good to have backup when you’re meeting a stranger and have $3000 cash in your pocket).
The bike wasn’t terrible. This was the second owner; both he and the first owner were hare scramble racers and the bike had a distinct ‘rode hard and put up wet’ thing about it. All in all though, the asking price was very good even considering the money that would have to be put into it, and it came with a brand-new tag-still-on-it pipe, since the stocker was bashed all to hell.
So, deal was struck, we loaded the bike on the back of my truck and home we went.
Ordeded a bucket load of parts this evening, with any luck they’ll be in before next weekend so I can get it put together and see what it (and I) can do.
I did take it for a quick buzz up and down my street. Just about ripped my arms out of their sockets.
My first KTM.
Today, I am a man.
-Bob