For a company that lives by the motto “Ready to Race,” KTM wasn’t exactly ready for the financial faceplant it found itself in. The Austrian brand, best known for its aggressive orange machines and factory-backed dominance in everything from MotoGP to motocross, has had a hell of a time lately.
And for a while, it tried to play it cool—like the rider who’s just crashed but insists they’re fine while clearly severely concussed with a few broken ribs to boot.
The latest development, however, is that after only a few short weeks of resuming production at its Mattighhofen facility, it's once again pausing production due to supply chain constraints, read: its suppliers aren't too sure of its survival and didn't want to send them anything on credit. But in all this, it's somehow still doing factory tours? Or, at least, it was.
