KTM has up to date its enduro vary for 2024, together with each two-stroke and four-stroke fashions and the U.S. avenue authorized 350 EXC-F and 500 EXC-F. The whole lineup has been revamped, with KTM claiming 95% of the elements are new, together with the body, suspension, and bodywork.
For North America, the 2024 enduro line will once more embrace the two-stroke 150 XC-W, 250 XC-W, and 300 XC-W (for in all places else on the planet, the XC-W fashions will merely be branded as EXC fashions). The North American four-stroke enduro line will include the 2 avenue authorized EXC-Fs and the competition-only 450 XCF-W mannequin, plus two new 350 XW-F and 500 XW-F fashions. The XW-F bikes are 50-state off-highway compliant and include a USFS-approved spark arrestor as commonplace. Internationally, the four-stroke line-up is extra streamlined, with simply 4 non-street authorized EXC-F fashions in 250, 350, 450, and 500 displacements.
The largest change for the 2024 lineup is an all-new hydro-formed, laser-cut and robot-welded body. In line with KTM, the brand new body provides new longitudinal and torsional flex parameters, offering higher suggestions, power absorption, and straight-line stability than the earlier chassis. The subframe can also be all new, product of a mixture of strengthened aluminum and polyamide. The entire digital elements are fully-integrated into the subframe, offering higher safety whereas additionally being simpler to entry.
The brand new bodywork was developed with suggestions from the FMF KTM Manufacturing facility workforce, with KTM claiming higher knee contact, particularly when standing up on the pegs, and an improved rider triangle. The entrance fender has additionally been redesigned with new mud-repelling fins. The clear polythene gas tank can also be new, providing 2.24 gallons of gas capability for the four-stroke fashions and a pair of.37 gallons for the two-strokes.
The all-new 48mm WP XACT Closed Cartridge Spring fork supply a brand new mid-valve piston idea that KTM claims to offer optimum oil circulate throughout the cartridge. The WP XPLOR PDS rear shock has additionally been retuned for the brand new chassis. Each entrance and rear suspension proceed to supply full compression and damping changes by way of hand clickers. Rear preload can also be adjustable.
The 2-stroke engines introduce a brand new digital throttle physique injection (TBI) know-how, which KTM claims to offer close to carburetor-levels of clean energy supply, with out requiring re-jetting to regulate for various altitudes. The reed valve circumstances obtain new plastic flaps to enhance sealing for the consumption tract, which KTM says will stop the gas from working too wealthy in excessive uphill or downhill sections. The engine electronics supply new exhaust management and two engine maps, although you’ll want an optionally available change to toggle between them.
The four-stroke engines are tilted backward 2° in comparison with the earlier design, whereas the entrance sprocket now sits 3 mm decrease for an improved middle of gravity. Together with the brand new chassis, KTM claims the 2024 vary provides higher traction on excessive inclines and improves energy supply out of corners in particular enduro levels.
The 2024 450 XCF-W can now be geared up with an optionally available traction management and, in a primary for enduros, a quickshifter that provides clutchless upshifts from 2nd to sixth gear.
The 2024 XC-W and XCF-W fashions will land in North American dealerships in June, whereas the EXC-F and XW-F fashions received’t arrive till August.
In the meantime, we should always count on related updates to return to the enduro fashions from Husqvarna and GasGas, together with the crimson model’s first avenue authorized variations of the 350 and 500 EXC-F.
