Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

No it does not wobble at all. It is meant for cornering.
Check tires.
Check body positioning.
Check tarmac for loose gravel.
Do not brake late in the corner.
Follow this and you would feel like Rossi. Every time. Guaranteed.

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Congrats on the bike,..i bought the 3M wax, but i didnt use it, one of friend told me not to use it right now cause the bike is still new. it might make the colour dull.. so am just washing the bike with plain water and i use a microfibre cloth.
Ride safe..

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haha i Tried cornering yesterday and i was not even able to lean the bike... i have been practicing the body positioning but i think i will have to learn the countersteering part as well...

ride safe...

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congrats ....
ride safe..

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Do not ride an automobile (car, bike etc..) with the ignition off on a slope ! Firstly its not safe and secondly if the engine is not running, the lubrication of the engine/ crank case(i.e. gears, et all) is impaired, and will cause unwanted wear on the gears and other components. The oil in an engine circulates with the help of a tiny oil pump and with the engine off, the pump doesn't work and the oil just sits in the bottom of the crank case.
It has nothing to do with abs, the brakes (not abs) will still work even if the ignition is off (unlike in cars today)
If you have to push/tow your bike a long distance (e.g. to get a puncture fixed), let the engine run on idle or engage the first gear and control the bike with the clutch, i find the later method takes a lot of strain off your body when you push the bike.

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That was really awesome..take the mud guard off coz after buying such a beauty with mudguard will look like a babe in bikini with towel wrapped around her ...and even try to get a tail tidy kit from motofusion for 2600 and also clutch brake protector from ebay .
Ride safe..good luck[emoji106] [emoji4] [emoji122]

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I will definitely keep this in mind. thanks.ride safe..

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that's true.. don't want to spoil the looks of the beauty...will definitely check it out..ride safe..

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Did 2nd servicing @ 3000 KMs costed INR 1800 RS.
Changed oil, oil filter, air filter.

Vibrations are lowered, Engine feels more smooth.
LHS fairing was making noise. Added some double sided tape in between fairings, noise gone. DIY.
Stand is getting loose after 3k kms. So need to tighten the bolt. DIY

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Its a known issue and will happen sooner or later on most bikes. Fix is to clean it properly, and apply loctite and tighten it. Simply tightening it will make it loose again. I am using it since past 3-4k and it hasn't resurfaced yet. Touchwood.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Just back from a one day ~600km trip to Kaas. The bike is a mile muncher, and had no issues doing this distance. The limited tank range is infact a good thing so that you get enough breaks.After touring on duke and now rc, i understood one thing that the dreaded butt pain isnt due to hard seat(hard seat is infact good for touring) but due to underwear digging into our muscles. Wear cycling shorts and thank me later(for all mile munchers). I had read about it in [MENTION=31671]Sachinnair[/MENTION] 's ninja 650 thread.

Got around 26.7kmpl(tankful to tankful method) and console was also showing similar figures.
We( 2 duke 390's and me) averaged 85kmph for the trip, with speeds of 120-130kmph on the beautiful mumbai pune and pune satara road. Satara road had some diversions, but overall roads are good to maintain speeds.
Really really happy with the bike. I dont have any backpain or so, as the bike fits me properly. Few shots.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Hello Everyone!

I'm a new entrant to the Orange Club. My bike is Sep 2015 model with about 1500Kms on ODO. Few addition till now now include EMD Gel Pad and Swapping the Coolant for Engine ICE. Replaced the Horn with a Hella Make one. And Yes, my bike had a terrible battery cover vibration at about 3.5K RPM. First Service was of little help. But a 10 min DIY job is what all it took to solve it. All in all loving the orange experience.

My fellow BHPians would recognize me. I have upgraded from a Pulsar 200NS.

Few pictures from a recent 250Km ride which should sum my up my experience till now as well! Sorry about the low quality pics, these were taken from a mobile.

10000 Kms Update

Ok. So I am about to complete 10000 Kms on my motorcycle.

Would like to touch upon multiple facets of the bike.

Cornering: The bike corners on rails. Literally. But then there are some stuff that you need to do right.
Firstly your braking has to be spot on before the corner. If you enter hot, mid corner corrections are a little difficult for sure. Especially if you are going downhill on a not so perfect tarmac. I speak of this from my extensive touring in the Himalayas.
Next guys do not downgrade the tires if you really want to do hard cornering. It matters a lot. I just changed the tires to the Metz again.They as everyone says are brilliant.
But then you have to be very careful if there is slush or gravel. If your bike is leaned over you will get nervous moments, but if not leaned it would not matter.
Now when i talk about braking i have to rant here. The brakes i feel is the Achilles Heel of the RC. Its wooden. Period. I mean I am not saying it does not get the job done. What is missing is the feedback. Its zero. Whereas the tires, the chassis these are so good that you know what the rear tires are doing at every point. Brilliant stuff there.

Besides that after the third service no problems at all. Bike runs perfectly ok. No side stand issue anymore after that one time. No fan issues. Nothing. Good job there KTM.
Recently did a Palampur trip this weekend. Surprisingly the bike is also bungee friendly. Lets dish out some pics now.

And yours truly..

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Guys I had a small question regarding how you ride your RC 390(the clutch part mainly). Do you use half clutch?(to get the bike moving you hold half clutch, and slightly accelerate and when the bike is moving let the clutch go), or the method which i learnt, in which you slowly accelerate, while leaving the clutch, and when it gets to a particular point, put a bit more throttle and slowly let the clutch go? The half clutch method seems much easier to me, although i haven't tried it on an RC yet(I did try on an apache 180 RTR, in which it didn't work, all it did was rev).
Ive heard half clutch isn't good for long term durability too.
Any suggestions?
PS Im pretty new to this so might be a little noobish LOL :P

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No two butts are alike, and it's something that goes in the same lines, and no two clutch users are same.
Using half clutch all the time, would mean you are unnecessarily stressing your clutch plates, which would induce clutch plate wear faster than one would normally like. That's one. Secondly the clutch setting itself, most bike from the factory have clutch settings that almost move the bike even with a slight engagement of the clutch lever (fully pressed to the moment you leave to clutch lever). The Duke being a high compression engine, it lugs without the use of throttle inputs whatsoever. If you've ridden this bike in traffic, and you just press the clutch engage it in the first, leave the clutch, the bike will happily chug along and it does this without a fuss till 3rd gear, does not require any throttle inputs.

Try adjusting your clutch lever engagement, make it a little taller, so you don't have to always be clutching the clutch lever.

Cheers!
VJ

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Um..so basically i shouldn't be using half clutch technique, and when i get the bike, on stock condition, even on slightly pressing the clutch and adding throttle, the bike will move front, thats what you're saying right? That was kinda technical lol.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

What he meant was, when you pull in the clutch and then slowly release it a bit WITHOUT any throttle input, the bike will move forward. in traffic jams, you could simply take your hand off the throttle and keep moving forward little by just using the clutch.

Re: KTM RC 390 Ownership Experience

Ohh okay now i get it