The Day Honda Ended KTM’s Dakar Domination!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The day KTM's 18 year long Dakar domination ended was a day of joy for Honda. But not many know about the long, tedious efforts the manufacturer had to go through to get there!
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Krankit has hands down some of the best motorcycle content on the internet. Keep up the hard work bro. Much respect from ca and thanks for helping keep the motorcycle spirit alive 🙏
Agreed from the other side of the 🇺🇸 in NC.
Splendid job as always.
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Cheers guys! I appreciate it!
For the record, Honda had four Dakar wins from 1986 thru 1989. That was before anyone had heard of KTM.
For sure, that was another era
Paulo Gonçalves is with the rally gods now...RIP hero!
I love the idea for a video of the road books. And a amazing video as always
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This channel is amazing, the fotage, the storie telling, great work !!!👍
Dude I think your best active motorcycle historian in the world now. Good Job bud
I’ve been a AAA Plus member for decades and remember having spiral bound maps almost exactly like you showed here. What a life saver they were especially when your co-pilot, girlfriend, kept you up to speed at the perfect time every time. Thanks again for your excellent work and rekindling memories I’d completely forgotten about.
Can’t wait for the map men story! Mate, your channel is the best, your story telling is absolutely captivating, the time and effort you put into research is not lost on the audience. I can’t wait until you get a bit more budget and start creating your own stories, or visiting some of the places and the heroes of these stories you’re telling now. Brilliant stuff! Thank you!
You’ve done it again my friend, outstanding research and gathering of material and putting it all together into a thoroughly educational and entertaining package. 😊
Krankit, you are presenting it in such a fresh perspective! I am loving the content ....subbed!
Yes on a mapmen video!
Really glad i discovered your channel.
Probably the best motorcycle content channel on UA-cam.
Well done, Sir 👍🏼👊🏼👍🏼
Love your videos!!! The production and transitions are excellent! Love the "spot on" historic review of the legendary race! Keep them coming!
Thank you!
It´s been over 3 decades since I was really into the Dakar, but I truly enjoy all your documenaries about everything surrounding it (plus all the other ones). They arere a joy to watch. Great job man. Thanks!
Great production again!
I enjoyed every second of it :)
I'm not crying, you're crying
I had the chance to meet the KTM, Husqvarna and Gas Gas team coincidentally while training in Morocco. I was there on a photography assignment and we shared the hotel. I was so starstruck and can confirm Toby Price is such a nice guy and so humble. Taking time to take a picture and asking me questions. What a cool guy.
I’ve got to say, unlike other sports, in rally and hard enduro it seems like most of the top guys are genuinely nice blokes!
Great work! I enjoyed this video even more than the last ones
Please do an episode about the Dakar maps. Very familiar with automotive rally notes but not so much about Dakar itself. This looks really interesting.
Will do :)
Yes please do. :-)
Krankit (?) your content, narration, insight and professional approach is next level. Thank you for your good work. I learn so much from your material.
Yes on the map men!!
This guy is a good story teller!
Keep up the good work brother. This channel will fly high very soon !
This content is golden. Nice story telling. Made me wanna dive more into rally
Thank god this Channel exists !
Guys please keep making videos, you're creating good stuff
Great video, but it feels a bit like a missed opportunity to talk about the Baja 1000, which hinder dominated in the same fashion KTM did. Since 1997 only 2 other brands could take a win away from Honda. One year it was Kawasaki and one year it was KTM
Maybe that could be the subject for another video. Only so much you can fit in one piece :)
Great content. And very well done. Love your videos, keep on the good work. Greetings from Italy.
This vid was in my recommended, liked commented and subbed.
Awesome and engaging stuff !
As Allways, I just watched a great DOCUMENTARY, Thanks
Congrats on your videos. Really good material.
Great storyboard, super nice pictures. You are a Pro.
I really enjoy watching your videos.
Beautifully crafted video
Honda:
When we want to- we can
when we don't need to- we don't
Great job, as always!
16:44 I met Ricky at the last year W2RC Sonora Rally (Alongside Loeb, Nasser, Quintanilla, Cornejo, Toby, Sunderland, Sanders, etc) but Brabec was the most memorable, always willing to talk, a photo, autograph, anything, anytime, such a great person, I got his autograph on a small briefing on day 1 and in day 2 I got back to the place the teams were staying and found him sitting alongside his bike, just chilling, I went to ask him about the prologue, how he felt, etc, and we end up talking about his favorite slippers and how much he hated cactus... What a amazing human.
So, come on, spill the tea ... what are those slippers?
Another amazing vid. Thanks KranKit
Outstanding content! True quality, thank you.
Thanks!
Edit: of course you should make a video going deeper into the mapman situation!
Nice work, great history lesson, well told 🙏🏻💪🏻🏍️🔥
I was there in the race where he broke his neck in Idaho (NHHA race), I was a few minutes behind him and as I came by I stopped to see if he was OK. He was pretty jacked up to say the least. However the even more amazing thing is that he came back a few months later to win the next NHHA race 1st OA. Dude is a MACHINE!!
What a dude!
Good work man, keep it up.
Interesting that they were considering selling rally tank "kits". Surprises me KTM and Honda don't offer these tanks to the dual sport world. Great video.
Honda's and KTM's Dakar motorcycles have different chassis than those sold to the public. Therefore, the fuel tanks of Honda's and KTM's racing motorcycles are not fit the motorcycles bought from the dealer
Always an interesting topic when it's about The Honda.👍😎
Nice Video, very informative and easy to watch.
Hell yeah we need a video on the map men of Dakar. I had no idea you're a great storyteller tell us what you've learned
Another great video. Thank you
Hey that's Glen Helen!
Your channel is really good.
Wow, fantastic video. I learnt some 'stuff' today!
Great video great story! I really would like a video on the "map men" thing :)
Glad I stumbled across your channel! Great content, editing and narration! Keep it up! Now I have to go for a ride, see ya:)
That’s a better priority to have :))
Excellent content again thanks
Great video!
Excellent. Thank you !
Great insight ❤
Your content is awesome. Really great.
Could you make a video about famous female riders at Dakar, like Jutta Kleinschmidt😊
maybe one day
Love it ❤
My good buddy Skyler Howes has been trying to follow in Ricky’s footsteps but Dakar (and v2r) shows no mercy
Also that was really cool pulling footage from Kurt Caselli, I looked up to him as a kid, remember getting taken out in the pits and Kurt was the first guy there picking me back up, couple months later is when he passed
Now slowly Hero Motosports is aiming for Honda!!
I never realised the log books got standardized and we're made in colour now
If they could only compete with KTM in the enduros
Great video
If you’re 2001 born, you’re still a kid 😂
People from 01 are 23 now ... shit, we’re all getting old
And now ktm is dominating again 22 , 23 continuous
Negative it's not
very well put together video. amazing to see a romanian like myself "competing" with the americans on such content. props to you @krankiT 🙇♂
Mulțam fain :)
Should have stuck with the xr650r.
Enjoying it a lot half way through.
Nice work and it’s appreciated.
I own Hondas and Husqvarnas and like a proud parent I couldn’t pick a favorite.
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❤❤❤ another excellent episode 🎉 and Honda is rubbish.
Yes mapmen video!
Let's not forget the Peterhansel era when Yamaha was untouchable.
I was depressed when I discovered how NOT production the Dakar factory race bikes are and how relatively fragile they are considering the rules allow for multiple ENGINE swaps! I mean if you think you are buying an ultra tough insanely reliable bike just because the model looks like the race winner? Guess again/ although there is a class for production no parts swapping whAtever it is called would be the true test for a model
they put a stop to the 690 engine that nobody can still beat to this day , only 450cc because the other manufactures couldnt compete with that bike .
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amazing content!!!!! when do you think other brands like hero, kove, etc would be at top 3? how far do you think they are?
Hero got second place this year at Dakar
Thanks! As someone else said, closer than ever. I mean, Hero is the perfect example of that.
Great salut to all the sand warriors!
yes on mapmen and i am waiting for yamaha story
Yep. Let's see these map men.
Soon ... real soon ...
To bad, aka evening out the road book is good in my opinion. Whah
Honda was the dominant force of the early days of Dakar when it's started back in 78 then comes KTM and Honda now coming back it again ... Strangely enough others like Husqvarna yamaha always out there fighting but never reached top like Honda and KTM
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They may have won Dakar but they still don’t make a 300cc two stroke enduro bike. Come to think of it not a single 300cc enduro bike comes out of Japan. They sure missed the boat on this side of the sport!
Honda has plenty of time to do so while KTM is in bankruptcy court 😂
The Power Of Dreams ❤🇯🇵
One Of These Fine Days Dakar Will Be Back Where It Belongs In Africa 🔥
Cheers From Norway 🇳🇴
Map video 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Can you make videos of other motorsports like Wrc
I’ll be honest, I’m more interested in 2 wheeled sports so the channel will probably stick around this niche for some time. Who knows, maybe one day though
@@KRANKiT I understand, the way you tell stories is amazing and I have intressting suggestion: A story of the ktm car, when a motorcycle brand made a car.
so what exactly did HTC learn after their return...? you never went into details .
dakar can be horrible, takes special people to be successfull, not what it once was few would contend but things change I suppose. RIP all those that have been taken by the dreams that take them to the sand and stones. Thanks Krankit. yes more about maps.
it actually just showed what the best bike was instead of the team with the most money. We want to know what the best man+machine is. not who has the most money
Honda swap glory from MotoGP to Dakar
Nope. Just one exception
Next video on yamaha leaving Dakar.
Then they made the crf 300 rallye for the public. Yey....
Standard asian farmbike with fake rallye tank. They don't even make competetive enduro bikes, you have to go to Redmoto who builds them on Honda base and then it's still a 5 speed.
I appreciate your videos but they attract so many adverts it spoils the content and often I don't get to the end.
McGrath also started out riding bmx….. just saying
Map men please
It’s out already!
Mapmen video pleeeeaaaaase
Africa eco race true dakar
I watch most youtube on 2x.....not KRANKiT
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I think KTM overused tactics over this era (last few years), absolutely obsessing about landing in 3rd or 4rth, but then losing the overall due to an inevitable "lost" round due to injury, accident or mechanical mishap. "Winning from behind" sounds very clever, but I don't think the data supports it.
I agree. Winning 18 years in a row truly shows their flawed plan
@@laius6047 the planned order really came into play in recent years, as the time margins became so low that leading out became such a presumed disadvantage. Previously, winning every stage was the basic priority (obviously with some tactics, but not to the same degree).
I would slightly disagree, because the planned order became less of a factor with the introducing of time bonuses for opening the stage. That leveled the playing field a bit.
@@KRANKiT yep definitely saw that play out last year and it was a good change. As far as KTM begin to lose their dominance though, I thought Price being over cautious was miscalculated in a few critical places for the 3 years previous. Historic (serious) injuries also slowly broke down the team I think.
How about doing a Story as to why they Dropped racing in the African Continent? Would that potentially upset some over zealous Muslims?