Dirt Rider was out today to get the ancient ride on the 2011 KTM 350 SX-F, one of the best talked about machines of the decade. By action rogue and bare the rules, or guidelines, KTM has already afresh complete a bike that fit into the need, acutely answering a canon a lot of riders acquire asked and no one has answered.

The 350 is above that, a 350. Smack-dab in the boilerplate of breadth accustomed 250Fs and 450Fs are. It is like that in weight feel (245 pounds, abounding of gas) and in power. A abounding address for the all-embracing majority of riders who allegation added than a 250F has and not as abounding as a 450F offers.The bike has antithesis and torque, and it is a fast 350, or a blah 450 in speed. Unless you rev it, afresh it is like a fast 450. How? Well, it gets traction. And because it is hooking up it isn’t spinning and it is action avant-garde fast. And aback we say rev, we abject it, the action sings to 13,000 RPM and we were adamantine apprenticed to use all the abstruse or hit the rev limiter, if there is one.

The bike feels a lot added like a 250F than a 450 in weight. It is abounding lighter action aback you are not revving it and there is absolute little compression braking. So in some aspects the bike additionally acts like a 250cc two-stroke with a actually connected adeptness spread. The FI was flawless.