Any company using KRM as back-up is asking for trouble.
Pierer Mobility AG, KTM's parent company filed for judicial restructuring proceedings with self-administration, which is a legal process in Austria to reorganize a company facing financial difficulties and potentially avoid bankruptcy.
MV was started by a gent who was fascinated by GP motorcycle racing but was convinced he need to make some street bike; he agreed reluctancly, but they did dominate GP racing till Japanese two-strokes showed up and the old man died, so his son decided enough was enough. What became Cagiva took over the name and went racing on their own taking on the Two-stroke Japanese giants, with little, but some genuine success till in a bizarre change of hands, (including Harley once owning MV) till in 2019, the Sardarov family acquired full control of MV Agusta, again including Cagiva.
MVs big problem , their bike were always pricey, is people expected them to return to international motorcycle racing big time but they did not.
Ducati, who in the fifities raced against MV, returned to racing , inspired by Harleys success in Battle of the Twins, heads-up in the eighties and becameone of the most prominent motorcycle company in international racing by the oughts.
That is why Ducati is thriving and MV is neither here nor there, in international motorcycle circles.
I had a MV 750- America, (last street bike by the original MV organization) paid six grand in 1978 and sold if for 28 thousand in 2005.
Nortion is here today, and gone tomorrow, back again in a week .... but poor management (a British bike company normal) put it on shakey ground.
Royal Enfield , from many articles I have read is getting bigger and bigger as the Indians, kept it British but made it better.
There best selling bike is a basic small CC street bike, like the Brits thrived on 70 years ago.
In an odd change of venue, BMW who was known for their smooth , reliable flat-twin, street motorcycle, decided it was time to join the crowd and built and sells an across the frame 4 cylinder street semi-race bike, which has show it heels at the Isle of Man true road race, the biggest week long motorcycle racing event in the world.
Oddly , the last non-Japanese bike to win the main event before BMW, was a Norton Rotory engines motorcycle in the early nineties, before Norton cut off it ears to spite its face.
