I was born in Colorado to a full-blooded Norwegian/American mother from North Dakota and a Cajun/Scottish father from Mississippi. Raised and educated in four states, eight public schools, and one liberal arts Lutheran college, I somehow ended up in South Dakota and was married to a mostly Dutch guy for twenty years. I spent 15 years as a stay at home mom and am currently back in the working world at a seed testing lab. I have two sons whom I adore beyond reason. The younger one lives with me and the older one is just across town at SDSU. I also live with two cats, Newton and Einstein, who love me because I feed them.

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The WP fork on the 200 uses their open-cartridge technology, The frame is brand new and incorporates KTM’s PDS single-shock non-linkage, which is designed primarily for off-road. Racing is an integral part of their development program, and KTM has dominated almost every facet of off-road competition. Scoffed at a few short years ago, they now own the off-road world, and they deserve credit for their constant appetite for improvement. The goal is a smoother, more tractable ride from a bike that is still around 5 pounds lighter than a standard linkage-equipped machine. KTM has almost single-handedly forced the continued evolution of the two-stroke, with yearly innovations and thoughtful technical improvements. With a central shock mount and better torsional rigidity, there is decreased longitudinal stiffness and more isolated shock force. 2012 marks the return of the 200XC-W to KTM’s lineup following a one-year hiatus.

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