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I just saw a KTM-390 in Prestige Tech Park,Bangalore - anyone from here ???

Tell me one thing - is the waiting period 90 DAYS or 3 MONTHS ??? My 90 days are over but 3 months will be over tomorrow.

I have not recieved a single mail or call from my dear dealer Indiranagar KTM Showroom till date and today when I called they say "Supply is low - Saar "

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It was just delay by the dealer. I got a call today, papers forwarded to the rto

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Yeah, even I got the same story. It looks like Bajaj is shipping the bikes in stages, starting with states with most booking but it is going to be round robin meaning will be delivered to other states before it comes to same location again. That means it will be quite sometime before they get their new lot.
If it get delayed beyond October, I will most probably cancel because if I can wait this long for this bike, I can as well wait for 2014 new releases.

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Got delivery of the bike today. Rode for 20 odd kms. No starting issues, even when the engine is hot. The heat is evident when riding in city traffic and waiting at the signal. Haven't faced any issues so far.
The head mechanic of the workshop says, the bikes will be recalled soon (starting from 1st week of Oct) for 'a few' parts replacements and the parts have already arrived. I thought the new lot is arriving with parts already changes, which is not the case.

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I would have got bike yesterday but I was not in delhi. I will get bike today first half before Orange Day event.

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Recently did a 2800km ride to Chennai from Pune and back. Wanted to do this run from a long time to check its performance on highway on a longer run. This is what I found from the ride

• Average speed on Duke 390 is much higher than any other Indian bike. Pune – Bangalore run of ~900kms was done in less than 11 hours including stoppages with a moving average of 98kmph.
• Contrary to my earlier belief that it might be very tiring for anything above 500kms per day it turned to be pretty comfortable and I was not feeling tired even after ~950km on the saddle
• Other than the Ninja250 and 300 this is the only bike where 6 lane highways don’t feel boring even after long hours because of the ability to touch 160+ at your will and cruising at ~130kmph at other times
• On open straights speeds of 130-135 was held for 10-15mins even while sitting upright. Earlier I reported having difficulty in holding speeds of 130kmph but post monsoon the less windy condition were favourable for holding higher speeds
• At speeds of 110 the bike rides effortlessly and there is zero stress on the engine and gives a feeling that the bike is only doing 60kmph
• Top speed achieved on the ride was 172kmph (speedo indicated). Though post 165kmph one really need to put a lot of effort to reach that speed
• The biggest negative that had come from this ride was the limited tank range. Had to fill 7 times from Pune to Chennai excluding one full tank which was filled before the start of ride. Had filled mostly between 160-170km after each tank fill even then there were occasions when had to slow down lest I ran out of fuel because of unavailability of any pump at a particular stretch. The route for this ride mostly comprised of major & popular highways but still risked the chance of running out of fuel twice.
• Always filled regular petrol irrespective of the bunk size so if you are planning to pamper it by stopping only at the big bunks then its not going to happen
• Rear tyre gave away at ~10000km and was changed in Chennai. Replaced with MRF Revz which comes standard with Duke 200 as wanted to test how 390 fares with the MRF
• MRF holds good till 140kmph but after that the vehicle feels shaky and by 150kmph it becomes very unstable, on hard gearshifts around the corner and doing WOT there is a tendency of rear slides even when the surface is dry. In wet one has to be really careful so as to not loose control if you are using the MRF on 390
• The vehicle had done 13000km but still the front tyre is in pretty good shape. Will last for another 3000kms
• Average speed of more than 100kph is also possible on this kind of run as the above run was done with MRF’s which are not great above 140kmph
• Mileage of 20-22kmpl when ridden above 130kmph for most of the time and around 25-26kmpl when holding speeds of 100-120kmph

Note: The average will improve by 2-3 kmpl in production bike as this is a test bike which is trashed from the very first km

Pics from the ride

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Great review [MENTION=10454]MG[/MENTION] !! By the way the bike has done 13000 km but its still on temporary number?

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Thank you for this Long term ride report

Looking forward to my DUKE 390

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20 bikes delivered at orange day delhi...

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One of them was mine
First impressions
All the good stuff is there. Its not as hard to ride slow as I thought initially. The tyres are sooopper sticky. I leaned a bit into a corner, the bike goaded me to do more. I did a bit more, and the bike said - bas itna hi :P
The bad stuff:
Extremely clunky gear shift. Finding neutral is an art. Hopefully it will get better with time.
A few weird noises here and there.
Delivery Experience: All ok except that I was forced to tag along with a dumb group of poser superbikers to the orange day event. The kinds who unnecessarily vroom around to get attention and pop wheelies. Sad really. Left a bitter taste in the mouth.
Anyways, time for another short ride

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True very true I avoided going to Orange Day. I sent my staff as proxie to avoid all sound and poses. The bike is good had some some ride finding neutral takes little time initially. Rest easy to drive though I am driving after 7 years. My earlier bike was first gen. CBZ

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And the kilometers keep clocking . Rode it on muddy and broken roads. Oh what a beauty...


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Was calculating, from cost of running perspective. --> Almost 4rs. a KM for fuel.
24K for metzeller tyres every 8K km average --> 3Rs per KM.
Servicing around 2500 every 6K. + lubing every 500 km and misc. --> 1 Rs. a km

so approx is around 8Rs. a KM.

The way this bike crunches miles,
a weekend pune-kolhapur run 500 km round trip would cost me 4K bucks.
and a long ride like pune-delhi run 3500Km round trip would be 28K INR.

wooooooooshhhh...

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