Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

Without Fear of Failure

GENERATIONAL GAP

THERE USED TO be an unwritten law with dirtbikes: “If you can’t start it then you can’t ride it.” The idea was that if you didn’t have the ability to kickstart the bike you were trying to ride, maybe you shouldn’t be onboard. Electric start has made that rule null and void but it’s still a thing in the vintage community, as Mitch and Olly found out testing a fleet of mid-’90s two-strokes.

ADB reader Bernie den Hertog was keen for us to test his KTMs from that era after we featured his mate’s KTM 300SXC hybrid in issue #489. The idea was to get Grabbo to do the

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