Duke 200 :-
Pros : First ever dirt bike in India, good for Indian roads, powerful bike, stylish look, good for tracking and races, less weight.Cons : Expensive spare parts.

I'm not sure, how an ownership thread has gone so OT. However, what i'm more surprised in the fact that we defending our egos on machines, which are siblings.

First of all, as far as I know, the third spark plug is there in NS to replace the Cat Con, which is quiet costly, hence lot of price reduction.

KTM is no doubt is way ahead of 200NS, in terms everything sans cornering ability. One pays 40K, which still is a steal considering you get one of the best equipped bikes in the country today. Right from the Steel Braided Disc brake hoses, to WS USD forks up front to almost every bit.

However - Bajaj Engineers are not idiots! Pulsar is made to be a cost effective option for people looking for a overall good bike. KTM and Bajaj are partners, not only collaborators.

Duke owners please don't forget, it's Bajaj which has bought KTM to Indian shores, and made it so affordable.

No denying the fact, the KTM is better than a P200NS, even with a single spark plug. It's all about economies of scale. Bajaj puts SOHC VS DOHC to cut costs, so puts 3 spark plug to slightly offset the performance hit and still keeps the cost affordable for an average joe.

I believe, 200 NS is more efficient but only because of taller gearing, while compromising on the neck jerking acceleration offered by the Duke.

All Duke and 200NS owners should be competing with other manufacturers than bashing each other!

Meanwhile else where in the world the rules are making technologies like ABS a mandate while on xBhp a moderator has to start a thread quoting some member and justifying how cheaper is better and justifiable.. :P

from what I had learned of the DTSi sequence, only one spark plug sparks for the entire RPM range while the second one works for a limited RPM range....Bajaj use more than one spark plug for the purpose of reducing Emission, and the delayed specific RPM use of a second spark plug is innovative. I believe the Three spark system is also something similar...
Even Honda has dual spark in it's car engines ,and Duke is also following the same....No point in comparing with Fi since they both are dissimilar .

the entire point was, triple spark tech is cheap and low tech (like a simple wooden pencil). FI is not low tech (hence compared with an Astronaut's pen). Can we all agree at least to this bit?

But Antz...cylinder is not the shape of a dick, it must be something else ROTFL

That point should apply to no. of cylinders too. Isn't it?

I would like to quote Ron Chinoy from rddreams about three spark plugs.He summed it up nicely.

Plugs and sparks are a bit like dicks. Id rather have one big one with a solid Punch. Then 3 small ones with weak punches.

May be something wrong(shall I call rite?) with nandi hill road.I also got around 60 kmpl (may be a little less) with pillion on nandi strech,

downhill showed 73 finnally.

it varied last time of full ripping .Dropped till 39kmpl.guess dat also ok for duke when riding at 120+ all time.

During Leh trip 1 duke got 98kmpl.

Now what ??