![]() One year later, KTM celebrated the delivery of their 1000th motorcycle and, during the same year, it won the Austrian 125 national championship. ![]() KTM first participated in motorsports events in 1953 in the 5th Gaisberg competition in which it won the first three places. In the first year of existence, they had only 20 employees and they were producing approximately three bikes per day, including the 98cc R100, a project which began in 1951. Two years later, in 1953, an Austrian businessman named Ernst Kronreif bought a large share of the company which was the renamed to Kronreif & Trunkenpolz Mattighofen (KTM). Because the company was actually a metalworking shop and sales were pretty low, the owners decided to start manufacturing motorcycles. KTM was founded in 1934 by Hans Trunkenpolz and was initially known as Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz.
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