Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

AFAIK the shroud cannot be removed by itself, it's kind of attached to the fan itself. It's all integrated into a single unit.

KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

I follow that forum too. Few pointers.
1. Most of them are from florida, with similar temperatures like in india.
2. The fan case was for a specific batch i guess. Their issue was that fan used to eat into radiator. But ive never heard of such failure here. At the most fan slows down and eventually gives up. You can put spal, but it will be horribly expensive.
3. The safety line(below 2 bars on guage) is the bikes normal operating temperature.
4. Follow rc-390forum.com too, its also a good forum with loads of mods etc for 390.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

1. I read a few failures from Canada too. Most of them were because of bad PDI, like the bike had no coolant.

2. The 2015 model has that fan shroud. It does prevent the hot air from flowing to the rider's thighs, but I've read that the shroud directs the hot air to the cylinder assembly, I don't think that's a good thing.

SPAL fan costs about 60$ without shipping. Link: A1 Electric Online Store: Spal 30103011 5.2" Fan (pull)

I think that's a safe bet. Worried about warranty though.

3. Good to know that, but I have experienced the bike taking hell lots of time to cool down after switching off the engine. Like I ride for about 30 mins, come back home and switch off. And when I turn it back on after 3-4 hours, the temp gauge will be having 1 or 2 bars on it. Maybe because of the shroud trapping all the heat.

4. Will do.

KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

So one year of ownership of D390 completed today. Till now its a somewhat pleasant experience with minor hiccups in between.

My bike's current odo reading is 7800 kms. This mileage has been covered 55% in highway and 45% in city traffic. Now coming to pros and cons of this bike.

Pros :-

1. Crazy acceleration and great handling makes it good highway bike.

2. Metz tyres are super sticky and does its duty very well. Still tyres can run about 2.5k - 3k kms.

3. Parts are not expensive and easily available at my svc. Chains and sprockets too have life of about 3k kms.

4. ABS completes this bike. In my city anything can come in between or from wrong side that can be some educated people to some two-wheeler and four wheeler guys who risks their own life and others life for saving their few minutes.

Cons :-

1. Seat is hard but thats ok for long tours you have to take timely breaks.

2. Tank cap vibrates which i think addressed by ktm in 2015 batch bikes.

3. Heat management is not up to the mark. It heats a lot in B2B traffic.

4. Low end torque leads to frequent gear changes in city traffic.

Parts replaced / problems faced :-

1. Replaced LHS mirror when bike was just 1 week old. Glass just cracked when i was adjusting it.

2. Replaced thermostats twice.

3. Replaced radiator fan because was bike was overheating a lot and was stalling at the middle of traffic which was quite scary.

4. Leg guard was taken off because bolt of RHS part of leg guard was broken and it's half part was stuck.

Conclusion:-

This bike is VFM package. I think no bike offers this awesome power, sticky metz tyres, ABS at 2.08 L. There are cons in every bike and good part is ktm-bajaj is addressing those issues with upcoming lots.

P.S - I have no idea why pics are not uploading in its full size and are looking blurry.

Ride Safe 😀

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences


The shroud is designed for rc, theres proper channeling of air, hot air comes out near ankles. Using the same fan with shroud on duke may/may not be useful, but bajaj might have decided to use only one design rather than 2.
Spal with shipping and customs might go upto 100-120$ easy, our fan is abt ₹1500~.You may give it a try though.I dont see any issues with warranty as it will be a plug and play device.

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It's not actually a plug and play, heard we have to splice the wires for it to work. The fitting is direct. They say the small casing around the SPAL fan does a better job in redirecting the air than the big -a** shroud. I might go for that in the future.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Cant the shroud on duke be removed?

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Hi guyz registered dis morning im from pune i have booked a duke 390 black i just wanna know has anyone gotten their bike recently from the nal stop showroom

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

No. The fan is bolted on to the shroud. And the shroud needs to be bolted on to the radiator.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

I am planning to buy duke390 with in two weeks.So i want to know what are the precautions and tips for first 1000km?I think many people are already owned the bike and having some experience by now so please guide me regarding this.

Regarding engine oil i read some reviews but unable to choose which one is better.Engine ice is good it seems but anything better is available?Cost doesn't matter.

TIA.

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Mods - This whole thread is showing up in news section instead of the ownership one, kindly move it back.

KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

[MENTION=30869]rakeshr[/MENTION]
You are lucky that i still had my old mobile with me. Check these out. I dont remember the name of the owner though.

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Thanks a ton. So are you still using it or not I at least found a mech. Who will do backrest like you. I have purchased Thunderbird Backrest. He will do rest stuff.

Cheers

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Its not my bike, I had seen this in svc.

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Oh ok no problem but thanks a lot for images. I can at least tell my mech. that I want it like this Cheers. Will update this thread soon with pics