On a night of action when KTM also presented the 2011 Enduro Factory Team and the new KTM 350 EXC-F Factory bike, it was extreme Enduro specialist Blazusiak and KTM’s E3 world champion David Knight who saw most of blue ribbon action. KTM’s Taddy Blazusiak may have had to settle for third in the first round of the World Enduro Championship in Genoa in November but on Sunday night the Polish extreme Enduro maestro won three finals in Round 2 in Barcelona to surge ahead in the points and set himself up to defend his title KTM’s Taddy Blazusiak clean sweeps Indoor Enduro at Barcelona By the end of the day I was matching Beattie even though he was on slicks and I was on treaded tyres.New year, same result for Taddy Blazusiak Nigel Beattie was the Isle of Man champion at the time and at the start of the day I was running into corners too hot and making a bit of a mess of it. I did a track day at Jurby a while ago on a bike I borrowed off Slick Bass – a ZX-10R in Superstock trim. I did have a KTM Superduke on the road but I was too worried about losing my licence so it had to go in the end. I don’t ride bikes on the road any more, I go too daft I’ve got a feeling I’d be quite good at it. To me it’s like a tarmac enduro, the obstacles are close and you need to be disciplined.
#DAVID KNIGHT KTM BIKE CRACK#
I don’t fancy short circuit racing – I’m not really the right size – but I’d love to have a crack at the TT. Living on the Isle of Man, we used to race around on our BMX bikes pretending we were TT racers. It was a dream for me really, because I’ve wanted to road race since I was a kid. I won the event overall and was well chuffed to be just half a second a lap off of Karl Harris on a similar CBR600RR. Road racing is the only sport I hadn’t really done until I was invited to take part in the Dunlop backed Moto One, multi-discipline event at Donington Park. I’d love to race the TT one day but my mother would probably murder me.
At the end of the day it’s all riding a bike and if you enjoy it then you’ll probably do alright at it. I’d done some motocross at British level and been in the top six a couple of times. I won the British Experts and a few national trials but it was a big jump to go from that to world level. I started off in trials but I knew I was never going to be World Champion.
I’m really keen to stay with Kawasaki the bike’s good and we’re really getting there with developing it. It’s a different thing for them, though we’re kind of a team within a team. That’s what we’ve done and it’s been working pretty well. I spoke to Steve Guttridge (Kawasaki Europe’s Racing Manager) about racing the KLX450R and he got pretty keen and said the simplest thing to do was to run something through Birdy. I’ve known Birdy for years and he comes over to the Isle of Man a lot to ride with us. At the top level being your own tech is not ideal, but I enjoy getting my hands dirty. When I was with KTM the engines were sent back to the factory after each round so that was great. I’ve always been quite hands on with all the bikes I’ve raced – it’s always hard to get someone you can trust to do everything. Spannering your own bike also keeps your mind off the racing so you don’t stress about it so much.
#DAVID KNIGHT KTM BIKE REGISTRATION#
Off-road motorcycle registration plan rejected, sparks theft growth concernsĪfter years of being a works rider, I’m working on my own bikes again! I wanted to do something for myself, to get the fun back into my racing. I decided to go over to the States and do the GNCC, I won it and got a cheque for $20,000 so that was a good start. There was no one racing a Kawasaki in the world championships so I thought that maybe if I got some decent results it might create a bit of interest. I’d never had a Kawasaki before and fancied one! It was as simple as that. I bought myself a new Kawasaki to be different
I’m not in the sport for the money, it’s winning that motivates me and if I can do that then the money usually follows anyway. We had a final meeting to discuss what could be done to improve things but there wasn’t anything we could do so I made the decision to quit. I’m not too bad at riding dirt bikes, so I tried to adapt but nothing seemed to work. Certain people were saying it was just that I couldn’t get on with it and that I wasn’t riding it right.
In the first few races I was faster than Juha Salminen (the most successful enduro rider ever with 17 world titles) but I lost all trust in the bike and my confidence took a bash.
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