The GasGas Factory Edition comes with a stock KTM head-pipe/mid-pipe but with an Akrapovic muffler. It is a “works bike” for GasGas racers and what GasGas factory rider Justin Barcia raced in the 2023 AMA season.Įxhaust. It is just a red version of the 2023-1/2 KTM 450SXF Factory Edition however, since the existing 2023 GasGas MC450F was little more than a warmed-over 2021 GasGas MC450F, the concept of a seriously upgraded GasGas MC450F Factory Edition offers GasGas racers their first opportunity to get their hands on KTM’s all-new frame, suspension, engine, frame geometry and anti-squat technology, which had been denied by GasGas management’s budget cutting. Which leads us to the 2023-1/2 GasGas MC450F Factory Edition! This is the first-ever GasGas Factory Edition, but let’s not get too misty-eyed about the GasGas version of the Factory Edition because it does not plow new ground. The Factory Editions were as close to a “works bike” as any production motorcycle has gotten since 1985.
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Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki were free to do the same thing, but they didn’t react until KTM had already expanded the idea to both 450 and 250 versions of both KTMs and Husqvarnas. KTM followed the existing AMA rulebook to the letter of the law. That bike raised howls of protest from KTM’s competitors who claimed that it was a “works bike,” but there was nothing the AMA could do about it.
That bike was the 2012-1/2 KTM 450SXF Factory Edition, most commonly referred to as the “Ryan Dungey Replica.” Guess what? It took until 2012 before a manufacturer realized that it could manufacture a totally new “works” version of its existing homologated production model with a new frame and new engine, and race it as long as they made 400 of them. In short, if a manufacturer wanted to race its ultra-trick, prototype, 450cc four-stroke in the AMA Nationals, all they would have to do is keep it above 220 pounds (without fuel in the tank), make 400 units available for sale through their dealer network (in the allotted time frame) and have a manufacturer’s VIN number for that model year. At any point in time over the last 38 years, a race team could have been racing works bikes if they met the AMA minimum weight limit, complied with the exotic frame-material ban, honored the limitation on the number of cylinders, and produced the required number of bikes for homologation. Why not? The AMA couldn’t actually delineate what made a “works bikes” into a works bike, so instead, they wrote new rules to define what made a “production bike” a production bike. Works bikes have never been banned from AMA racing.
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Q: DID THE 1985 AMA PRODUCTION RULE ACTUALLY BAN WORKS BIKES FROM AMA PRO RACING?Ī: The true answer is no.
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