My insurance is zero depreciation, even for fiber parts. It is from Bharti AXA, taken from the showroom when I bought the bike, for RS 3600.

The fuel meter doesn't return accurate figures like the speedo(the speedo is one of the most accurate around).
There is a bit of hesitation at the cusp (the point where it is decided that the fuel level has crossed a minimum level), mainly due to the fact that fuel splashes around and this is a digital system. Refill soon after it flashes low fuel warning to save the fuel pump and learn to live with this behaviour
To calculate accurately you need to use tankful to tankful method: Fill the tank to the brim, set one of the trip meter to zero and ride. When you run out of fuel again do a tankful. The amount going in would be what the bike consumed over the distance recorded by the tripmeter. An accurate mileage figure can then be arrived at.
This is usually 30-35 for healthy dukes on this forum. If you ride sedately then close to 40kmpl can be had.

The mileage calculation on the MFD is kind of instantaneous and will keep on changing as per your ride conditions.

The turn limiters on the TEE(the silver aluminium part which holds the forks beneath the headlamp) limit the turning radius of the bike. This can be bothersome in the beginning but you'll learn to live with it. Learn only throttle modulation to control your speeds without using your feet to aid, while you take short turns. This will quickly have you master turning the bike. Take it easy on the throttle while taking turns.

Hey thank for your inputs. Really helpful.
Moving to another question related to seat . Am sitting on my twins . Yes am not sitting on my bum instead sitting with the space between my anus ans testicles () and its pains very hard within a ride of around 20 Km. Consider I am very short , just 5'3 , this may be a problem related to my height. I can just tip of with my toe or front part of my feet. Just want to know if anybody here has found a solution for this . Is it my height or my riding style or seat that causing this? Adding cushion wont help since I don't want to increase seat height. I can understand if I get any reply saying this bike is not for people like me , but please l like to keep this one and have started loving it expect my bum.

Hi, that region is called perianus and you are not the only one complaining. Almost all bikers find a bit of numbness in that area at some point of time or other. In fact there was some research which concluded this would increase the probability of male infertility
But yes a short height exacerbates this problem.
You should try consciously shifting around so that you rest on your bums and not strain the prianus area.I do that.
Besides start riding with your balls of the feet resting on the footpegs(I am assuming you use your heels to rest on the footpeg now?). This will lift your legs up a tiny bit resulting in more leverage to use your bums to rest on the seat.
Also, you can practice grabbing the tank with your knees to ease a bit of pressure from your bottom and also to avoid sliding forward

No no. I think he's indeed talking about knocking, when letting go of the throttle after downshifting from say 4th to 3rd(or 3rd to 2nd). A few knocks are indeed heard and I was initially apprehensive about the engine health.
When I raised this with the KTM engineer he told me it's nothing to be worried about and is a standard engine signature.

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Yeah exactly this is what I'm talking about. Its like you let go off the throttle a bit and it sounds like bhunggg....bhungg...bhung..

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Please suggest an alternative to paddock stand ( or a cheap paddock stand itself : P ) . If any shop sells that in Delhi please provide the contact/address . It gets so hard to lube/clean the chain moving the bike alone .

Ohh...exactly the water drops acuumulate there and definitely might get in there and mix up with petrol...yess i read before in this thread before about dummy screws. I cant say if they ate they main culprit. But this is certainly not good.
Also the spacing between the lid and cap is quite more enough to let pass the water through it.

When the cap is closed, there is no way for the water to get from that black area into the tank itself. The "ring" that the cap is attached to is decorative; it's not meant to keep water/dirt out. That inner lip you see, where the fuel filler actually goes, has a corresponding rubber seal on the cap. That's the actual "cap"; the part that seals to the filler neck.

Is that rubber seal suppose to keep water out. If so its not doing good. Any aftermarket mod or ideas that would mitigate the problem bro??!....
Coz water entering tank is not good.
The black lower part after opening the lid contains about at least few 4-5ml of water evertym after riding in rain.

The rubber seal doesn't keep water out of that black part. It keeps water out of the filler neck, which is the raised lip in the center of the black area. Look on the underside of the filler cap, and you'll see what I mean.

Propensity of the engine to knock usually happens when the engine is positively loaded, this is not the case while downshifting, and often people mistake snatching for knocking. Snatching is when there's not enough power to drive the tire, and the bike starts to jerk. I ride pretty harsh, rarely touching the fifth and sixth gear because of the heavy traffic, but push the engine really hard to keep up, but never once it knocked, even while trying the normal fuel instead of Shell Super Unleaded. That is not to say these bikes don't knock at all, but knocking when downshifting is a less probable case, but if it is in fact knocking, it should be addressed proactively.


And engine knocking sound is a sharp metalic ping.


Here the scenario fits snatching, not knocking, and this is the justification for my earlier comment, I'm not saying that it's definitely not knock.

+1 happens to my duke200 too, my duke stay in the open parking lot, 1 day with hard rain, after that my bike stall and won't start again, in low rpm engine will stop so I need to keep in high rev until all water get away from throttle maybe.

+1 yes there are spacing between the lid and cap is quite more enough to let pass the water through it

You should never keep your bike just standing in the open(especially in the rains). Many of the electrical wires might even get damaged if exposed to water for a long time. Get a cover for the bike. I always put a cover on my bike when parked in my office which is in the open..


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Oh man this is nightmare..........come on KTM what kind of bike you made? can't stand in raining day ..........

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Oh man this is nightmare..........come on KTM what kind of bike you made? can't stand in raining day ..........

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