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Season starts 28 February in Thailand. Let's see if there are any KTM bikes (and badged as such) on the grid! My guess is "no". And if it gets pushed that late, barring a "hail-mary" bailout, there's going to be a shortage of bikes on the grid. Not a good look. (Dorna takes care of...

They're under administration ... it's sure not me making the decisions. None of us are privy to what's going on inside.

At this point, there is still at least a theoretical possibility of a hail-mary from Red Bull or some other party interested in buying out the MotoGP operations without incurring a penalty. If they shut it down now then that penalty becomes guaranteed. And, yes, can't get blood out of a stone...

That order may not come until the creditor's meeting, which is supposedly sometime in February, and right now they're operating on hopes and dreams that someone will buy out the operations. KTM is under contractual obligation to Dorna (MotoGP) for a certain time period, too, so they can't just...

Terrible. Hopefully, rebuilding will involve more fire resistant construction. Tile or metal roof, brick or concrete or other non flammable exterior walls, tougher windows (or shutters). Earthquake is a consideration there, too.

It's almost certain that the real problem is something else, but it is not being properly diagnosed. A few people in the Bolt facebook groups have had nasty looking faults come up which turned out to really be due to low coolant level or improperly "burped" battery cooling systems leading to...

A very, very long time. Years, maybe. We built a specialised machine for an OEM supplier to build a specific vehicle cooling system component - the machine was a variation of a somewhat-standard design, but of course it has to be tailored because one vehicle has a part 200mm long and another...

Appears that this was a foundry (castings). With the KTM name on them, this is probably a wholly-owned subsidiary which is a sole-source supplier to the mother ship. Pierer Mobility Group is a tangled web of corporate entities. My observation in the automotive world has been that the mother...

It isn't quite that simple. Here's a completely random google streetview from the residential area of a town in Sweden. Street View · Google Maps If you go to the map view, you'll note that this is a dead-end neighborhood unless you're walking or on a bicycle, and that's an offshoot from...

Bajaj "we bid for all KTM production equipment on our plant floor and the rights to keep using it, €50"

Yeah it's hard to see any existing auto or bike manufacturer taking on more combustion-engine production capacity (bike or car) when there's already overcapacity in the industry and an end of viable production on the foreseeable horizon, except possibly the companies that are already somewhat...

Telcos, check. Banks, check.

Dismantlers and ebay and internet user groups will keep them going for a while. Major components that aren't wear items are usually crash-repair parts or major-mechanical-failure repair parts, and at that point, it's a crapshoot whether you can find used parts or substitute parts, or make...

Quebec is the closest province with the highest EV market penetration, much higher than Ontario. It stands to reason that there will be more used ones from there! (Didn't PrivatePilot buy one from Quebec a while back?)

I have two mouse blockers. Cats. I've yet to see a mouse anywhere, not even in the garage.

I think it is fairly likely that Bajaj or CFMoto (or both) will pick up some of the pieces for pennies on the dollar, and carry on building the portions of KTM that they are already involved with. What that does for parts availability, particularly for historical models that are no longer in...

Hung out at the Ride42 booth with a bunch of the SOAR racers for a while this morning. Bumped into a few more familiar faces while making the rounds. That's what this is mostly about.

Just FYI in my experience on unrestricted sections of autobahns in Germany, most normal traffic is doing 120 - 140 km/h (130 km/h is the recommended speed where there are no limits). Sure, there is the occasional high-end vehicle doing more than that, sometimes much more, but for every one of...

Probably Spain. There's no shortage of places to go and things to look at.

Make engineering changes so that people don't drive fast near pedestrians or cyclists because they can't or it's uncomfortable. Option 1 separate them and allow high speeds, option 2 allow them together on curvy narrow streets where you can't comfortably drive fast and with houses and schools on...