Have you ever wondered how multi-time dirt bike champion Mani Lettenbichler would look on a KTM Rally bike? Well, here’s your chance to find out.
The KTM factory unleashed the reigning Hard Enduro World Champion and 2024 Red Bull Romaniacs winner on the stunning shores of Italy’s Lake Como with a KTM 890 Adventure R Rally bike and a KTM 450 Rally bike too.
From carving up the scenic asphalt surrounding Italy’s most famous lake on the KTM 890 Adventure R Rally to tearing through the rugged mountains aboard the KTM 450 Rally, it’s safe to say the 26-year-old German rider looked right at home on both machines.
Sit back, relax, and watch as Lettenbichler gets wild around Lake Como.
Meanwhile, as some background, it’s fair to say Manuel Lettenbichler grew up riding a bike, getting his hands on his first trials bike at the age of five. He won three junior trials titles before taking a change of direction.
His father, Andreas ‘Letti’ Lettenbichler, introduced him to enduro riding and Mani caught the bug. On his first appearance at the Red Bull Hare Scramble in Erzberg in 2014 he became, at the age of 16, the youngest rider to ever finish the race.
Since Mani joined the big leagues, he has enjoyed success all over the world on the Hard Enduro circuit. He’s registered victories in Poland, Germany, Spain, Brazil and the Czech Republic, cementing his place as one of the sport’s biggest talents in the process.
In 2019, he underlined just how much talent he has at his disposal by finishing as the outright winner of the World Enduro Super Series – the undoubted highlight of which was his victory at Red Bull Romaniacs – to claim the title of Ultimate Enduro World Champion.
Mani returned to action for 2020’s only major race, the punishing Red Bull Romaniacs, and delivered a winning ride for the second year in a row.
The following year he completed a hat-trick of wins at Red Bull Romaniacs and the GetzenRodeo, but had to settle for second place in the overall standings of FIM Hard Enduro World Championship.
Mani went up a gear in 2022 and proved he is the man to beat in Hard Enduro as he took the Hard Enduro World Championship title.
There was no stopping Mani in 2023 or 2024 either, as he won two more overall FIM Hard Enduro World Championships for a hat-trick of titles that have confirmed him as the dominant rider of his generation.
Also, even though we aren’t quite there yet, the Dakar Rally 2025 is beginning to take shape.
With a formidable line-up of Kevin Benavides, Daniel Sanders, and Luciano Benavides, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing are ready to race the 2025 Dakar Rally.
After a strong program of training and testing, the boys are fired up to take on the world’s toughest rally-raid.
With 12 gruelling stages and almost 8000 km of racing ahead of it, the team is fully focused on success in the desert of Saudi Arabia.
The 47th edition of the Dakar Rally begins on January 3.
Photo courtesy KTM
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