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" The result was almost a disaster for the team, with several of the sample sprockets breaking. I remember driving back to KTM after the race to collect the remaining sprockets in my car. I was so disappointed with the first result that I threw the sprockets into the River Danube before driving from Austria back into Germany. " We could have given up at that moment, and the hybrid sprocket would never have existed. I don ' t like to lose and being told that the product was not good enough, was a real motivation for me to prove that we were good enough. Being the underdog is sometimes an advantage and a big motivation.
Luciano Benevedes, 2026
Dakar winner
" The team must have thought that the concept had something going for it, because over the next 20 years, we have been providing them with race parts and using the results to improve the sprockets that we sell to our distributors and dealers. Their customers really are buying a genuine factory race sprocket. A lot of brands make that claim but with Supersprox ' Stealth sprockets it literally is true." Every common product that we take for granted has an origin story. Supersprox Stealth sprockets are no exception, and their existence is closely connected to KTM, Dakar, Rally and extreme races. The Supersprox motto is " Extend your journey ". It is not only a catchy phrase. In the case of Supersprox Stealth, it is engineered into the product DNA. " It is the Stealth ' s raison d ' etre," says DJ.
Cyril Despres, five-time Dakar winner with Supersprox
SIP- Open Day
SIP Scootershop( Landsberg am Lech, near Munich) will stage its popular 2026 Open Day on 16 May- the event that fires a starting gun for the scooter season throughout Bavaria and beyond. The last SIP Open Day attracted around 3,500 scooter riders from near and far. The Thursday before the Open Day is Ascension Day, a public holiday, and Munich hosts the Vespa Corso. Two great events on one long weekend! As ever all the usual attractions and creature comforts will make it a fun day- from crispy pizza cooked in the wood-fired Ape, to food and drink from the Italian SIPERIA café bar and a Custom Scooter Show. Visitors always report that highlight though is the chance to tour SIP ' s architect designed, purposebuilt headquarters and to have your scooter tested on their calibrated P4 Amerschlaeger test bench( dynamometer). Every year there are more vendors and an always
growing parts and used scooter market for bargains and rarities. Among the parts that will be on show will be SIP ' s performance upgrade kits and its Mk II 2.0 design forged aluminum rims for all modern Vespa GTS models- an update to the new-in- 2025 seen in IDN a yar ago. With reduced 3,000 g weight( and therefore improved handling) compared to comparable 13 " rims, they meet German and international strength and durability standards, have a dynamic design with concave surface, are approved for wide tyres up to 140 / 60-13 " and ship with the ABE general operating permit certificate. www. sip-scootershop. com
20 INTERNATIONAL DEALER NEWS- MARCH / APRIL 2026 www. idnmag. com