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**Ajeet Padhi** · 07-26-2015, 08:46 PM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by mehuel View Post

As for tyres, dont even think about continental, the size is different and grip is ridiculous. as for metzeler's, yes general concensus is they last for around 9-10000 kms, i have seen very few guys touching 11000kms +.

Both Michelins and Pirellis are good option. With pirelli you can even upsize to 160 rear, again general concensus is around 15000 kms. Michelins are available in 140 and stock size of 150, I have used 140 on the cbr250 before after my contis gave way at 18000kms. good tyre, and have read good reviews about 150 aswell but havent tried yet.

I hope I can be one of the few who can get 11k from the Metzelers ... they are expensive , might as well baby them to a sweet bald demise :: Requiescat de Pace ::

What will be the pros and cons of upsizing to 160 and downsizing to 140 ?

**ynike99** · 07-26-2015, 09:03 PM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Ajeet Padhi View Post

I hope I can be one of the few who can get 11k from the Metzelers ... they are expensive , might as well baby them to a sweet bald demise :: Requiescat de Pace ::

What will be the pros and cons of upsizing to 160 and downsizing to 140 ?

The 150 rear is over engineered but then having a 1cm "safety chicken strip" is good. 160 might affect your handling, make it heavy to lean etc, while 140 is just on too small, theres no chicken strip left when you corner around. And that maybe dangerous in case u encounter a bump etc midway.

**Ajeet Padhi** · 07-26-2015, 09:15 PM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by ynike99 View Post

The 150 rear is over engineered but then having a 1cm "safety chicken strip" is good. 160 might affect your handling, make it heavy to lean etc, while 140 is just on too small, theres no chicken strip left when you corner around. And that maybe dangerous in case u encounter a bump etc midway.

Haha , forget chicken strips ... My tyres are gonna have chicken steaks

I'm not much of a rider , but my brother is . So I'm gonna show off the chicken strips made by him till I get comfortable with leaning and counter steering . I look forward to the sessions at BIC I plan on having in the near future .

What do you mean by "over engineered" ?

Thanks and Regards
Ride Safe

**ynike99** · 07-26-2015, 09:18 PM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Ajeet Padhi View Post

What do you mean by "over engineered" ?

Means it is impossible to get rid of the entire chicken strip for rear tyre, without few modifications like higher footpegs, race underbelly. Even then i doubt you can reach the 3rd elephant marking.Front though is perfect.

**Ajeet Padhi** · 07-26-2015, 09:22 PM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by ynike99 View Post

Means it is impossible to get rid of the entire chicken strip for rear tyre, without few modifications like higher footpegs, race underbelly. Even then i doubt you can reach the 3rd elephant marking.Front though is perfect.

Yeah , I have heard of the underbelly pan scraping at extreme cornering .

Lol ... The elephant you say ? I doubt if I can even get to the 3rd of the normal markings

**archanmishra** · 07-27-2015, 02:45 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by ynike99 View Post

Means it is impossible to get rid of the entire chicken strip for rear tyre, without few modifications like higher footpegs, race underbelly. Even then i doubt you can reach the 3rd elephant marking.Front though is perfect.

Hmm we can reach very close to 5th marking on the rear metz (thats me a normal guy talking) , depends on you gaining confidence on the bike and getting the right twisties.
Going on hoggenakkal road near bangalore and on Ooty to satyamangalam I was able to come very close to 5th marking. On one side it was more than other don't remember now since i switched to michelins and am not riding since the rains.

We can easily reach 4th marking on normal twisty road. I hope I am mis reading the 3rd elephant as 3 marking.

**ynike99** · 07-27-2015, 02:48 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Hope this clears your confusion

**Pizzaboi** · 07-27-2015, 08:42 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by archanmishra View Post

Hmm we can reach very close to 5th marking on the rear metz (thats me a normal guy talking) , depends on you gaining confidence on the bike and getting the right twisties.
Going on hoggenakkal road near bangalore and on Ooty to satyamangalam I was able to come very close to 5th marking. On one side it was more than other don't remember now since i switched to michelins and am not riding since the rains.

We can easily reach 4th marking on normal twisty road. I hope I am mis reading the 3rd elephant as 3 marking.

After a very spirited track session, I noticed the front was absolutely shredded, the little elephant has all but disappeared. While the rear is over tyred, not over engineered, it is possible to get to the elephant. After last week's session, the 2 markings at the elephant were rubbed clean off the tire, this was without scraping the underbelly or footpegs, I think if I push it to the third marking though, the underbelly will scrape but not the footpeg, looking at the footage from the guy following me. Should mention, it was easier to scrape the fairing on the RC200 then on the RC390.

Additional note: I started the session at 22/25 and ended the session at 27/32, which would mean I would have to run much lower pressures next Sunday

**ynike99** · 07-27-2015, 08:47 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Over tyred is the word. My bad.

**Nickyboy** · 07-27-2015, 08:53 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

I completed 5200 Kms on my bike, saw the manual today it says I need to get the service done at 7500kms, but does there any date when it should be done? For eg. Like in pulsar it's like 2 months or 2000kms whichever comes earlier, but in KTM I didn't see that or may be I missed.

**Pizzaboi** · 07-27-2015, 08:53 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Nickyboy View Post

I completed 5200 Kms on my bike, saw the manual today it says I need to get the service done at 7500kms, but does there any date when it should be done? For eg. Like in pulsar it's like 2 months or 2000kms whichever comes earlier, but in KTM I didn't see that or may be I missed.

90 days or 7500kms

**GeeGee** · 07-27-2015, 11:06 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Pizzaboi View Post

90 days or 7500kms

I think its 120 day i.e 4 months from date of purchase, as far as i remember. I checked it when i got mine done at 3 months and 24 days or so.

**broken87** · 07-28-2015, 03:00 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by Pizzaboi View Post

After a very spirited track session, I noticed the front was absolutely shredded, the little elephant has all but disappeared. While the rear is over tyred, not over engineered, it is possible to get to the elephant. After last week's session, the 2 markings at the elephant were rubbed clean off the tire, this was without scraping the underbelly or footpegs, I think if I push it to the third marking though, the underbelly will scrape but not the footpeg, looking at the footage from the guy following me. Should mention, it was easier to scrape the fairing on the RC200 then on the RC390.

Additional note: I started the session at 22/25 and ended the session at 27/32, which would mean I would have to run much lower pressures next Sunday

RC390's rear is not over sized tyre, Level 5 needs just bit of more courage and skill that's all. And that front will hold adequately. RC's (both 200/390) can be leaned over so low, it's pretty amazing. You're examining your tires too much instead of pushing your bike and increasing the contact patch while cornering. Or in other words, your cornering technique needs improvement.
RC390's metzellers share the exact same oval profile of RC200's MRF Revz. and Pic below is the result of one session at those short sweeps at India Gate at normal tire pressure (25/28) (sry if you're not from Delhi then you probably don't have the idea about those turns) Technically it's the level 5 achieved, but that last unfinished portion will require absolute fit conditions, tire pressure and some extra effort! one day

**Pizzaboi** · 07-28-2015, 09:08 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Originally posted by broken87 View Post

RC390's rear is not over sized tyre, Level 5 needs just bit of more courage and skill that's all. And that front will hold adequately. RC's (both 200/390) can be leaned over so low, it's pretty amazing. You're examining your tires too much instead of pushing your bike and increasing the contact patch while cornering. Or in other words, your cornering technique needs improvement.
RC390's metzellers share the exact same oval profile of RC200's MRF Revz. and Pic below is the result of one session at those short sweeps at India Gate at normal tire pressure (25/28) (sry if you're not from Delhi then you probably don't have the idea about those turns) Technically it's the level 5 achieved, but that last unfinished portion will require absolute fit conditions, tire pressure and some extra effort! one day

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Have you examined your fairing?

We ended up going through a pair of knee sliders during that session so no, I think our cornering skills are just about right.

The rear is over tyred, there is no way you can use the entire rear tyre of the metz without grinding off your foot pegs.

I haven't even reached the end of the tire and I've already scraped the fairing. Interestingly though the fairing scrapes more on the right than the left.

**ynike99** · 07-28-2015, 11:39 AM

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Plus one to the above post.
Also, rc390 underbelly is different/wide than the rc200. [MENTION=55656]Pizzaboi[/MENTION], we will need the race underbelly for more lean angles.

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