Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Check your battery terminals too. About 300-350 pages back another dude was facing this stalling issue. His was so severe that everytime he pulled the lever in, it stalled. Started back up with no trouble. It turned out that one of his battery terminals were loose which was causing his bike to go kaputt.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

I went for a ride yesterday. The bike performed amazingly. The hairpin bends were a joy to ride with the bike, can only imagine how awesome I'd be on an RC390. It's a long ride of 240 km from Bangalore on a straight and well-maintained highway, can only imagine how aweful it'd be on an RC390. Even on D390, my arse was paining and I was always moving around the seat to reduce it.

Was riding in speeds of ~90 kph every time but on the way to the hills I did a few high speed runs, met with fellow riders at CCD who were riding CBR650Fs (2) and saw a black Z800. The economy was 32 kpml.

And, the biggest shock. I wanted to extract as much kms out of the fuel as I could, so on my way back I rode in speeds of 85-100 kph without any high speed runs, varying RPM from 5k-6.5k, and when I calculated, it gave me a whopping 40.08 kmpl! The odo was showing me 39 kmpl. I must have broken in the bike properly.

Here's the Fuelly link: Shorty (KTM 390 duke) | Fuelly

The way back was hell though. Was late, was dark already, was raining like crazy, the road was filled with slow-as-hell moving traffic and lorries trying to "overtake" other snail-like lorries at 13 kmph (A guy took ~30 seconds to overtake). The tyres provided amazing grip, braking was great.

Only thing I noticed was a centimeter of oil trail from that 0-0 seal, I guess it's the oil weep issue. Need to get that fixed. And also the bike needs a proper wash and chain maintenance.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Nice visor.. Does it help with the windblast?

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

I'm 6'1. And if I sit 90 degree straight, the wind chokes me up. But if I crouch a little, it goes over the helmet.

And that handguard also helps in keeping your gloves clean from bugs. :P

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

hmm, i did remove the battery terminals and reconnect them (had to use the resqtech tire inflator) , and the bike did stall even before this and once even after this.
Let me see if i figit with the terminals one more time.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

How would you rate the Resqtech tire inflator quality, nick of time I was pondering to get one!

Cheers!
VJ

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

I got one for myself after seeing a demo from a friend of mine. It's really good

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Pl order one ASAP. It works like a charm and is about the size of your palm.
Someone deflated my tire (or somehow the tire went flat). I was able to inflate the tire in under 5 minutes and head to the puncture wala a few km away. No puncture was detected despite multiple checks. It has been 5 days now and the air has since held up.
I did shoot a grainy video of the process (it was night) and will upload it shortly. Its pretty straight forward to use it.
Must have for bikers.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences


Forgive the OT and




Cheers!
VJ

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Please dont quote posts with the pic. Makes it very hard for mobile users to read them.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

what wind screen is that also where did you get that orange white tyre paint job , some more pics please of your tyre.

how did you pull your fuel info digitally


Is that a custom ecu or did u type in manually

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Thank u all for answering my queries.

Took a test ride of RC390 today. Fairly long ride of around 30-35 kms. Here are my observations:
1. The power is in no way intimidating for a ZMR rider. In fact, the bike felt pretty tame.
2. The bike does run hot. Feels when traffic is slow moving,
3. Has lot of vibes man lower down the rev range. Too much I'd say.
After my Test ride, when I sat on my ZMR, whoaaaa it felt heavenly. :respect:
4. The best thing about the 390 is the gearing. I sooo love it. They are so long. ZMR's gears (post Hero badging) are so-so short. Hate it.
5. FE is too low.
But, overall feel including power delivery, etc is good. Only, if they could've reduced the heat a lil bit and increased the mileage to around 30.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Wow test drive for 30~35 mins, thats superb. I got a test drive for 5 mins that too there was a pillion rider from showroom.
ZMR is a refined bike and it could have been so much more but Hero Honda split and that totally ended the future of Karizma.

I have been riding a karizma since 10 years and till date i enjoy it, just that there are more powerful bikes here.

If ZMR had come with a 400 cc double cylinder and fat rear tyre and better rear styling and ABS and at attractive price it would have been a killer bike
but its not so why dream.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Looks like the windscreen of R15 if I'm not wrong.

Re: KTM Duke 390 - Owners Reviews and Experiences

Sorry, man.[emoji14] I just now realized one thing. Dunno, if it was the fault of the bike I was testing, but I did full rotation of the throttle but the bike was not going past 115 kmph. I tried really hard. I regularly do that on my bike. Maybe the Ktm showroom guys have reduced the top speed of the test bike to prevent accidents. But the bike was simply not going beyond 115, which can't be correct bcoz RC390 has a top speed of 170kmph.