Newbie from Cardiff

Think it's a bit of a 'horses for courses' job really
There are 125's and 525's, two and four strokes, whippets and porkers all out on the same ride's doing the same stuff on here without any problems - that are the fault of the bike!  

Blagging as many goes on as many different bike's as possible before choosing probably best way to know before spending your money

Occasionally shops and manufactures do try out days or something like that Dave Thorpe school in South Wales or the Yamaha one run by Geraint Jones might help?
Even if you don't want those makes, you might get to find out what suits you best and even if trail riding suits you

Welcome to the forum, can't give any advice on anything orange apart from they look good and seem to need repairing, the upside being any issue you may have somebody on here will have the answer, ps. hope u have a good sense of humor

Welcome to the forum. You will need 2 budgets mate - one to buy it and one to repair it. You can do what some guys do and just ride it and get others to maintain it for you on the rides - ask Dude lol, saying that he does have a second hand front sprocket going cheap from yesterdays ride..... 4 teeth left and plenty of life in it.

Thanks for the warm welcome and good advice. Not stuck on the ktm choice , just like the look , getting my hands dirty isn't a problem in fact I like to tinker and have always done all the work on my bikes . That being said I don't want anything too delicate that's breaking down all the time . Is there a bomb proof alternative or is it the nature of the sport that mean things are going to break quite often.

They say the wr is bullet proof but heavy go ktm had mine 2 years not much gone wrong its a 450 2011 model seems to be ok unless you go on wolfys rides and you need a submarine or jet ski

They are all much the same considering the shit they go through. Just most ride ktm's so you get to hear about their repairs the most.

I like mine seems bullet proof just a bit heavy when it lands on u,
Think Dudes bike has gone fine for years without any issue or is it Pete does all his repair's

OWEN450X wrote:I like mine seems bullet proof just a bit heavy when it lands on u,
Think Dudes bike has gone fine for years without any issue or is it Pete does all his repair's

Don't go there, found his sprocket had 4 teeth left half way through yesterdays ride(lucky we were fueling at et james at the time), he's a bad owner!

Dudes still great company to ride with and a lot of fun

Any where else apart from here and evil bay that I could be looking? Keep meaning to pop into mounters see if they've got any cheap part ex's in.